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    Photos: Olympic event joins sports events around the world halted by coronavirus

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    Photos: Olympic event joins sports events around the world halted by coronavirus

    Number of sporting events falling victim to coronavirus grows


    Published:  March 03, 2020 13:20 Matthew Smith, Sport Editor

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    The International Triathlon Union, in consultation with the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, has taken the decision to postpone the 2020 ITU World Triathlon Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Paratriathlon World Cup and Abu Dhabi Mixed Relay event as a precautionary measure to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The event was due to take place from March 5 to 7 on Yas Island, in Abu Dhabi, where some cases were reported in the last few days. Image Credit: Gulf News Archives
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    A mixed wheelchair rugby final match at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
    On March 3, a Tokyo Olympic test event featuring Paralympic wheelchair rugby has been called off because of the virus outbreak, which is threatening the Games that are expected to open in less than five months. The test event was to take place on March 12-15 in Tokyo Image Credit: AP
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    Thailand's MotoGP was postponed over the new coronavirus on Monday as motorcycling's premier championship took its second hit in two days from the deadly outbreak. A day after the season-opening Qatar MotoGP was axed, Thailand organisers postponed the March 20-22 race in Buriram without setting a new date. Image Credit: AP
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    And it was Adam Yates of Michelton-Scott who got to the top of Jebel Hafeet first to take Stage 3 honours and the GC leader's red Jersey. Yates won ahead of Tadej Pogacar and Alexey Lutsenko
    The UAE Tour cycling competition was cancelled after Stage 5 last week when two Italian team members were found to have tested positive for coronavirus Image Credit: UAE Tour
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    The World Athletics Indoor Championships, scheduled for Nanjing from March 13-15, were postponed until next year. World Athletics is working with organisers on a date to host the biennial event in 2021. A mixed relay Olympic triathlon qualification event to be held in the Chinese city of Chengdu in May was moved to Valencia in Spain, the International Triathlon Union said. Three Asian Cup events, one in Taiwan and two in China, scheduled for March and April have also been postponed Image Credit: AP
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    The Irish Rugby Football Union has postponed the country’s Six Nations fixture against Italy due to the virus outbreak in northern Italy. The game was scheduled to take place in Dublin on March 7.
    The Irish Rugby Football Union has postponed the country’s Six Nations fixture against Italy due to the virus outbreak in northern Italy. The game was scheduled to take place in Dublin on March 7. Image Credit: AFP
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     Inter Milan's Kwadwo Asamoah
    our Serie A games scheduled to have taken place on Feb. 23 in northern Italy were cancelled. The affected games were: Inter Milan v Sampdoria, Atalanta v Sassuolo, Verona v Cagliari and Torino v Parma. Top-flight matches can go ahead behind closed doors in areas affected by the outbreak after the government agreed to a request from the country’s football federation Image Credit: AFP
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    Asian Champions League matches involving Chinese clubs Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG were postponed. Guangzhou and the Shanghai clubs will join the competition in April, with their group matches due to be played in May. Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG were due to play away at Perth Glory and Sydney FC but Australian officials sought to reschedule matches after their government imposed a travel ban on foreign nationals arriving from China. China’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Maldives at home and Guam away in March will be moved to Buriram, Thailand. The game will be played behind closed doors Image Credit: AFP
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    Vietnam said it would not allow sports events to be hosted in February, meaning home AFC Cup group stage matches for Ho Chi Minh City and Than Quang Ninh will be switched to away fixtures. The Chinese Football Association said domestic games at all levels would be postponed Image Credit: AFP
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    The Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai set for April 19 has been postponed by the governing body FIA and Formula One Image Credit: AP
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    The Chinese Formula E Grand Prix is off
    The all-electric Formula E motor racing series abandoned plans for a race in Sanya, on China’s Hainan island, on March 21 Image Credit: AFP
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    The International Tennis Federation moved the Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Group I event featuring China, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea and Uzbekistan out of the Chinese city of Dongguan to Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) in Kazakhstan. But the Feb. 4-8 event was later postponed after Kazakhstan declined to serve as substitute hosts. China forfeited a Davis Cup tie because its men’s team were unable to travel to Romania for the March 6-7 playoff Image Credit: AP
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    The world championship to be held in Busan, South Korea, from March 22-29 has been pushed back provisionally to June 21-28 Image Credit: Francois Nel/Gulf News
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    Japan's Nozomi Okuhara
    The 2020 German Open, which was to be held in Muelheim an der Ruhr from March 3-8 and is an Olympic qualifier, has been cancelled, the Badminton World Federation said. The 2020 Polish Open, another Olympic qualifier scheduled to be held in Krakow from March 26 to 29 has been postponed and will now fall outside the Olympic qualification period, the Polish Badminton Association said. The February 25-March 1 China Masters tournament in Hainan was postponed after several players withdrew. Image Credit: AFP
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    The International Skating Union (ISU) has indefinitely postponed next month’s short track speed skating world championships in South Korea. Image Credit: AFP
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    The International Olympic Committee announced Jordan as hosts of the boxing qualifiers for Asia and Oceania after an event in Wuhan was cancelled. It will now take place in Amman from March 3 to 11. AIBA cancelled its European Forum scheduled for Feb. 29 in Assisi, Italy, due to the quarantine restrictions in some regions of the country which could last for weeks. Image Credit: USA TODAY Sports
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    The women’s LPGA golf tour cancelled the March 5-8 Blue Bay tournament to be held on Hainan. The tour also cancelled the Honda LPGA Thailand event in Pattaya and the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Italian golfers Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari were reinstated to the Oman Open on Thursday after withdrawing a day earlier when Gagli exhibited flu-like symptoms Image Credit: Francois Nel/Gulf News
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    Rory McIlroy plays a shot on the 14th hole during the first round of the WGC - Mexico Championship
    The PGA Tour Series-China postponed two qualifying tournaments and delayed the start of its 2020 campaign by two months, cutting the number of regular season tournaments to 10 from 14. The European Tour said the Maybank Championship (April 16-19 in Kuala Lumpur) and the Volvo China Open (April 23-26 in Shenzhen) had been postponed. Image Credit: USA Today
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    ro League matches between China and Australia, scheduled for March 14-15 in Changzhou, will not be played. Image Credit: Pexels
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    The Singapore and Hong Kong legs of the World Rugby Sevens Series have been postponed from April to October. Image Credit:
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    beach volleyball tournament, due to be held from April 22 to 26 in Yangzhou, has been postponed until after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Image Credit: Reuters
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    The Asian weightlifting championships has been relocated from Kazakhstan to neighboring Uzbekistan. The competition, scheduled for April 16-25, will be hosted in Tashkent. Image Credit: AFP
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    Asian mixed martial arts promotion One Championship will run its February 28 event in Singapore behind closed doors. Image Credit: Reuters

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