TOKYO: The collapse of sports events worldwide over the rapidly spreading new coronavirus heaped pressure on the Tokyo Olympics on Friday (March 13) as US President Donald Trump suggested delaying the Games by a year. Formula One's Australian Grand Prix and The Players Championship, one of golf's most prestigious events, were the latest to fall in a period when the virus has laid waste to the sporting calendar.
The Formula One Vietnam Grand Prix race track site has been fully developed in Hanoi. But organisers announced yesterday that Vietnam Formula One Grand Prix has been postponed due to Covid-19 outbreak which affecting world sports. - AFP
The PGA Tour golf season, the men's tennis tour, NBA basketball, Major League Baseball and a host of top-flight football leagues have all been put on hold or forced behind closed doors. But Trump became the first foreign leader to break ranks and raise the prospect of delaying the Olympics until 2021.
Trump later discussed the Olympics with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by telephone, before tweeting there were"Lots of options!" In Melbourne, drivers were just hours from the first practice session when the season-opening Australian Grand Prix was axed on Friday, after a McLaren team member was diagnosed with Covid-19.
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