Omicron
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Hockey stars forced to skip the Olympics, English “Boxing Day” threatened, rugby ordered to reschedule some European Cup matches… Overview of the championships shaken up by the virus.
Exploding contaminations, cascading reports, reinforced protocols: since the resumption of competitions in May 2020, professional sport has perhaps never been so badly affected by the pandemic. Review (not exhaustive) of sports and championships disrupted by the epidemic rebound.
European football affected to varying degrees
Magic of Ligue 1: French football remains one of the only major championships to remain almost spared by omicron. This is less the case with neighboring competitions. Across the Rhine, the German sporting events will be played behind closed doors at the latest from December 28, after the announcements of the new Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday. The device “Concerns in particular football matches”, and therefore the Bundesliga, which does not resume until January 7.
No truce, however, for the English championship. Even though chaos is brewing. On December 20, the Premier League clubs agreed to continue, despite a record number of contaminations, in football and in the country: from December 13 to 19, 90 players were detected positive for Covid-19, or more than double the previous week (42 patients). Last weekend, …