COVID-19

While this crisis evolves, maybe worth a dedicated thread for updates, etc?
Here's my sorry starter for ten.

RACING
Behind-closed-doors: All Irish racing will be closed to the public until March 29, starting at Dundalk on Friday March 13

Behind-closed-doors: Dubai World Cup, Saturday March 21

FOOTBALL
Suspended: All English football until April 3 - Premier League, EFL, FA Cup, Women's Super League, FA Women’s Championship

Suspended: All Scottish football until further notice

Postponed: All Champions League and Europa League matches until further notice

Cancelled: Friendly - England v Italy, March 27

Cancelled: Friendly - England v Denmark, March 31

Postponed: All Italian football until at least April 2

Postponed: German league football (Divisions one and two) until April 2

Postponed: Champions League - Manchester City v Real Madrid, Tuesday March 17

Suspended: Spain's LaLiga suspended for "at least the next two rounds of matches"

Suspended: Portugal League until further notice

Postponed: Spanish Cup final - Athletic Bilbao v Real Sociedad, on April 18

Suspended: Major League Soccer suspension of matches for 30 days

Postponed: Wales v United States, which was scheduled for March 30 in Cardiff

Postponed: Liverpool charity match between a Reds Legends side and Barcelona Legends, due to be played at Anfield on March 28

Suspended: Danish Football League for two weeks

Postponed: Conmebol qualifiers, including Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, due to take place between 23-31 March for the 2022 World Cup.

Postponed: French League Cup final - Paris St Germain v Lyon, on April 4

Behind-closed-doors: Poland's top-flight the Ekstraklasa until further notice.

Suspended: Japan's J League suspended until at least April 3

Postponed: The Asian qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup in 2022, due to be played on 23-31 March and 1-9 June

GOLF
Postponed: The Masters, April 9-12

Cancelled: PLAYERS Championship - cancelled after round one

Cancelled: All PGA Tour events up to the Valero Texas Open

Postponed: European Tour's Hero Indian Open due, March 19-22

Postponed: European Tour's Kenya Open, March 12-15

Cancelled: The Czech Masters, scheduled from August 20-23

Cancelled: Kenya Open

Cancelled: Maybank Championship

Cancelled: China Open

Postponed: Women's first major of the year, the ANA Inspiration

DARTS
Rearranged: Premier League double-header in Rotterdam from March 25/26 to September 9/10

Cancelled: European Darts Grand Prix (ET2), March 20-22 in Sindelfingen

Cancelled: European Darts Open (ET3), March 27-29 in Leverkusen

Cancelled: German Darts Grand Prix (ET4), April 11-13 in Munich

RUGBY UNION
Postponed: Six Nations - Italy v England, Saturday March 14

Postponed: Six Nations - France v Ireland, Saturday March 14

Postponed: Six Nations - Ireland v Italy, March 7

Postponed: Women's Six Nations - Wales v Scotland, March 15

Postponed: Women's Six Nations - France v Ireland, March 15

Postponed: Women's Six Nations - Italy v England, March 15

Postponed: Women's Six Nations - Scotland v France, March 7

Postponed: Women's Six Nations - Italy v Scotland, February 23

Postponed: Women's Six Nations - Ireland v Italy, March 8

Suspended: Guinness PRO14 season

RUGBY LEAGUE
Postponed: Super League - Catalans Dragons and Leeds Rhinos, Saturday March 21

TENNIS
Cancelled: Miami Open

Suspended: ATP tournaments six-week suspension until April 20 at the earliest

Suspended: The International Tennis Federation suspension of tournaments until April 20 at the earliest

Cancelled: The Volvo Car Open in Charleston, April 4-12.

Cancelled: The WTA Copa Colsanitas in Bogota

Cancelled: WTA 125k event in Guadalajara

Postponed: The Fed Cup finals in Budapest from 14-18 April and other Fed Cup play-offs ties on the weekend of 17 and 18 April

CRICKET
Cancelled: England's tour of Sri Lanka

Delayed: Indian Premier League start has been postponed from March 29 to April 15

Behind-closed-doors: India and South Africa two ODI's

Behind-closed-doors: Australia and New Zealand three ODI's

SNOOKER
Cancelled: China Open, scheduled to start in Beijing at the end of March

Reduced capacity: Attendance for Gibraltar Open limited to 100 people.

MOTORSPORT
Postponed: Formula One Australian Grand Prix, April 15

Postponed: Formula One China Grand Prix, April 19

Postponed: Bahrain Grand Prix, March 22

Postponed: Vietnam Grand Prix, April 5

Cancelled: Formula E race in Jakarta on 6 June

Postponed: Formula E race, The Rome E-Prix, scheduled for 4 April.

Cancelled: MotoGP Qatar race

Postponed: MotoGP season races in Thailand, the United States and Argentina

Postponed: World Superbike Spanish round of the series, scheduled for 27-29 March, postponed until 23-25 October

Behind-closed-doors: Nascar race events in Atlanta, March 15, and Miami, March 22

BOXING
Postponed: Vacant interim WBA World Lightweight Title - Francesco Patera vs Devis Boschiero, on 27 March in Verona, Italy.

Cancelled: Michael Conlan v Belmar Preciado at Madison Square Garden on St Patrick's Day

BASKETBALL
Suspended: NBA season until further notice

Suspended: EuroLeague Basketball suspended until further notice due to the outbreak

Suspended: International Basketball Federation suspends all competitions from 13 March

ICE HOCKEY
Suspended: NHL season until further notice

Cancelled: Great Britain v Poland, due to take place on 17 and 18 April

Cancelled: The 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship, due to be held in Canada between 31 March and 10 April

BASEBALL
Delayed: Start of MLB season delayed by at least two weeks and spring training games cancelled.

Postponed: Start of Japanese professional baseball league season, scheduled for 20 March.

ATHLETICS
Postponed: The London Marathon has been postponed until October 4.

Postponed: The Barcelona Marathon, which was scheduled for 15 March, has been postponed until 25 October

Postponed: The World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland, which were to be held on 29 March, are postponed until 17 October

Cancelled: The World Indoor Championships, Nanjing in China.

Postponed: The Paris Marathon, which was due to take place on April 5, has been postponed until October 18

Posponed: The Boston Marathon, scheduled for April 20, will take place on September 14

Cancelled: The Rome Marathon, scheduled for March 29

Moved: The International Triathlon Union has moved the 2020 ITU Paratriathlon World Championships, planned for May 2, from Milan to Montreal

CYCLING
Postponed: One-day classic Milan-San Remo, scheduled for Saturday 21 March

HOCKEY
Cancelled: Great Britain men's and women's hockey squads, South Africa training camp cancelled

CURLING
Cancelled: The World Women's Curling Championship, due to take place between 14 and 22 March

GYMNASTICS
Postponed: The International Gymnastics Federation postpones three World Cup competitions until June.

Behind-closed-doors: The Gymnastics World Cup event in Doha, Qatar, between 18-21 March

ROWING
Cancelled: Two World Rowing Cups, the European Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta and the final Paralympic Qualification Regatta, all due to be held in Italy between 10 April-May 10

TABLE TENNIS
Postponed: International Table Tennis Federation's April World Tour Japan Open

WINTER SPORT
Cancelled: GB Alpine Championships 2020, which were due to be held in Tignes, France between 29 March and 10 April.

Cancelled: The Alpine Skiing World Cup finals scheduled for 18-22 March in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

Cancelled: The World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, March 13-15

Cancelled: The World Figure Skating Championships in Quebec, March 16-22

 

And from the BBC:

What could be next?
BBC News reports that the UK Government could ban mass gatherings from as early as next week in a shift in policy to ease pressure on emergency services.

Currently, the Grand National is still scheduled to go ahead on 4 April.

Attention will now turn to the summer. Uefa has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday at which the possibility of postponing Euro 2020 by one year will be an option discussed.

And what about the world's biggest sporting event - the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games?

Japan's Olympics minister has conceded that the Games could be postponed until later in the year if the coronavirus outbreak makes their scheduled start on 24 July unfeasible.

 

Tennis will be interesting if a lot of the season is cancelled, because the yearly points may hurt some of the seeds if they lose a lot e.g Rafa on clay

 

Believe it when I see it!

 

So the Cheltenham Festival had a last day crowd of 68,859.
Yet all football matches, including a random Partick Thistle vs Alloa Athletic
(last home attendance 2,122) gets the chop.
Sheer lunacy by our bloody incompetent powers that be.

 

it would be much easier to post exactly which events are still taking place Cromer.

 

Cancelling an Olympics is a massive deal and let's face it, it's not going ahead. Perhaps postponed to later in year but good chance this could drag on or re-surface again then. What a nightmare for organisers. Eye-watering costs involved too but to put health and lives at risk is unforgivable.

 

To be the voice of reason/pessimism, nobody, anywhere in the world is closer than 12 months from a vaccine. We might see tests in humans before then, but the journey from "promising results in mice" to "mass produced vaccine" is a very long one. Disappointing really that NEN are trying to generate hope off the back of this.

 

Euro 2020 POSTPONED for year until 2021 due to coronavirus after Uefa hold crisis talks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/sports/euro-2020-postponed.html

 

This virus is now officially upgraded to "really quite a nuisance" level.

 

And nightmare for competitors, years of structured training to peak at exactly the right time, only for it to become the wrong time.

 

Well the French Open have plonked themselves just after the US open, really daft timing!

 

Were vaccines produced for Avian Flu, Swine Flu and SARS ? I can't remember ?

 

Coronavirus: Premier League set to push to complete the season

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51954580

 

I don't think they were. I think they were stopped sooner. I am pretty sure I got the swine flu when I came back from uni. I felt sick as a pig for a bit and was in bed for a few days but recovered

 

I don't believe there was ever a SARS vaccine, which given it uses the same receptor as Covid to enter cells, is a bit of a concern. There's new approaches to creating vaccines since then though, so hopefully something pays off.

 

Update
https://www.skysports.com/football/...glish-football-extends-suspension-to-april-30

 

It is too early to decide whether to cancel the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, says World Athletics chief Lord Coe.

The International Olympic Committee has said the Games could still begin on 24 July despite the coronavirus pandemic causing other events to be cancelled.

Coe told BBC Sport: "Let's not make a precipitous decision when we don't have to four months out."

What planet is he on.FFS cancel