BEIJING/TOKYO/LONDON/NEW YORK/PARIS: Silent stadiums and empty venues made for a gloomy weekend for sports fans but the fear on Monday (March 16) was it could only get worse amid the widening Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. With governments opting for increasingly stringent bans on the size and number of public gatherings, most major sports events across the world have been suspended or scrapped.
Pedestrians wearing face masks walking past a board showing the number of days to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Yokohama on Monday . Doubts are growing in Japan about the Tokyo Olympics, with growing opposition to holding them as scheduled and some urging officials not to risk lives by pressing ahead during the coronavirus emergency. - AFP
Hope that the event would be spared an increasingly Europe-wide virus lockdown was hard to sustain as the death toll and the number of Covid-19 cases spiralled and the continent became the new epicentre of the disease. The shift in mood was illustrated too by the apology from Rudy Gobert, the Utah Jazz centre and the first NBA player to test positive for the coronavirus.
The Azzurri are set to host the opening match in Rome on June 12, but for the moment all sport has been suspended with the nation's 60 million inhabitants in lockdown.
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