The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and local Japanese organizers bowed to the inevitable on Tuesday by postponing the Tokyo Games to 2021 in light of the global coronavirus pandemic which has claimed the lives of more than 17,000 people. Postponing is likely to cost billions of dollars, present a massive logistical challenge and have a huge knock […]
Tokyo 2020 has received the Olympic Flame from Greece in a stripped down handover ceremony amid an ongoing debate whether the Games should be held in summer, given the novel coronavirus pandemic. Formula One meanwhile postponed three more races on the day and won’t start until June, Turkey suspended its football while English football will […]
The Formula One season will not start before June after three more races were postponed on Thursday including the showpiece Monaco Grand Prix. Monaco was scheduled for May 24, two weeks after the May 10 Spanish Grand Prix and the May 3 return to the Netherlands after decades off the calendar. “Due to the ongoing […]
Wednesday’s match between Manchester City and Arsenal has been postponed “as a precautionary measure,” the Premier League said, announcing the first match in the top competition to be called off due to the novel coronavirus. The league said that the decision followed the announcement on Tuesday that the owner of English second-tier club Nottingham Forest […]
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