US Open, Ligue 1… The major sports competitions to come are threatened by the resurgence of infections.
Since the end of the containment in several countries in Europe, the sport slowly his rights, but must face a health situation is unstable. Measures of reconfinement have been decided, particularly in Spain, and signs of a resumption of the epidemic seem to be confirmed, little by little.
After you have put an end to premature in the season 2019/2020, the coronavirus continues to cause chaos in the French football, with the discovery of new cases in a cascade of several teams and the cancellation of friendly matches.
The resumption of the League 1 disturbed ?
within three weeks of the start of the season 2020/21 championship, many clubs see their summer preparation truncated and are forced to put in quatorzaine after the discovery of cases among the workforce and the management.
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An outbreak at Racing Club de Strasbourg, in which four new players have been tested positive on Tuesday, bringing to nine the total number of cases among the team, has forced the club alsatian to cancel for the third time in a friendly encounter, face-to-Reims, after those against Nancy and Dijon.
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earlier in the day, the friendly match between Olympique de Marseille and Montpellier planned for Wednesday had been cancelled, following the discovery of a potential case of Covid-19 in a player from montpellier, tested positive on Monday. At the end of July, the MHSC had already had to cancel a friendly match after a positive case of Covid-19 detected in a player of Sète (national). Last week, FC Nantes had expressed the contamination of five employees of his or her occupational group, after the first three cases, including a player, the middle Marcus Coco, revealed last week.
UEFA “confident” for the champions League and the Europa League
Despite the announcement of two players with a positive Covid-19, Tuesday, August 28, at Real Madrid and on Wednesday in Seville, the UEFA said he was “confident” in the smooth running of the champions League and the Europa League. Real Madrid, who announced the positive control on its attacker dominican Mariano Diaz, must face Manchester City in eighth of finale return of League of champions on Friday in England. The Sevilla FC, who said Wednesday a case of coronavirus among its players, has an appointment with the ACE Rome in eighth of finale return of the Europa League, on Thursday in Germany.
“We are confident in the fact that these cases will not affect the regular holding of the matches in question, in Manchester and Duisburg respectively,” said a spokesperson from UEFA. If the two players concerned have been placed in quarantine, their positive tests pose a question on the proper conduct of the two european competitions, which should be completed in August at the end of the tournament final, in Lisbon for the champions League and Germany for the Europa League.
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The UEFA anticipates even the running of the competition queen for the next year. The forum has published a series of provisions to ensure the functioning of the tournament, said The Team. Clubs who receive all of their opponents in their stadium need to find another point on a neutral ground if ever the opposing players can’t make it on site due to the restrictions of travel. If this is not the case, the penalty will be a forfeit loss.
If more than a dozen cases are detected within a team, it will have to play if the ability to line 13 other players who have not been contaminated. Otherwise, it will lose on a green carpet by the score of 3 to 0. “If one of the members of the team designated arbitration is tested positive Covid-19 […] his replacement may have the same nationality as one of the two clubs,” one can also read in the new rules.
tennis also disturbed
Postponed in may, is very hypothetical since the new outbreak of the epidemic Covid-19 in Spain, the tournament of tennis of Madrid (12-20 September), has been officially cancelled on Tuesday. A very bad signal to the delicate chain US Open – Roland-Garros. “After examining the situation for months, the organizers of the Mutua Madrid Open have been forced to cancel the tournament because of the difficult economic situation that continues to cause the Covid-19 at all levels”, justify the organizers in a press release.
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This announcement was expected and goes in the direction of the recommendation of the government of the region of Madrid, who had requested that “the tournament would not take place because of the current evolution of the Covid-19” in Spain, according to a press release of the organizers published last Saturday.
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The US Open will be paness of his champion title : the world number 2 Rafael Nadal announced on Tuesday that it would not participate this year in the Grand Slam us because of the sanitary conditions uncertain and denounces the “folly” of the new calendar. “After careful consideration, I have decided not to participate in the US Open this year. The health situation is still very complicated in the world with cases of Covid-19 and new outbreaks that seem to be out of control,” said the Spanish on his Twitter account.
