Category: Sports

KARACHI: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to postpone its meeting to finalise the possible multiple venues of Asia Cup T20, which is supposed to be hosted by Pakistan. With no chance of India travelling to Pakistan in the prevailing political climate, it was all but certain that […]

MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday that all qualifying events for the 2021 Twenty20 World Cup and 50-overs version in 2023 that were scheduled to be held before June 30 have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The flu-like virus has infected more than 470,800 people around the world and killed […]

TOKYO: The Tokyo Olympics need new dates for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2021. Nothing much can get done until those dates are worked out by the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government and Tokyo organisers. “We must decide this soon, otherwise it will be hard to decide on other things to follow,” Toshiro […]

LONDON: Caribbean Premier League (CPL) officials said on Monday they had no immediate plans to postpone or cancel this year’s Twenty20 cricket competition over the coronavirus pandemic. Launched in 2013, this year’s six-team CPL is scheduled to run from August 19 to September 26, with the Barbados Tridents the reigning champions. “CPL has been in […]

TOKYO: The Olympic torch relay, due to begin Thursday from a symbolic site in Fukushima, will proceed as scheduled but organisers said they would re-assess in the coming days given the “worsening” coronavirus situation. “The torch relay will start on March 26 in Fukushima, the plan has not changed,” Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto told […]

NYON: UEFA announced on Monday that this season’s Champions League, Europa League and women’s Champions League finals scheduled for May have been formally postponed, an inevitable move with European football in total shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. All three competitions are currently suspended along with almost every European domestic league because of the coronavirus […]

TOKYO: The 2020 Tokyo Oly­mpics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation the games could not go ahead as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Olym­pic Committee (IOC) made the decision after speaking to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organisers. The IOC said the games would be held […]

ZURICH: Football’s global governing body FIFA has joined with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic with the organisation’s president Gianni Infantino calling for teamwork to tackle the crisis. Infantino joined WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a media conference on Monday to launch the “pass the message to kick […]

SENDAI: Tens of thousands of people flocked to a cauldron with the Oly­mpic flame in northeastern Japan over the weekend despite concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The flame arrived in Japan to a scaled-down wel­coming ceremony on Friday as doubts grew over whether the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will go ahead on schedule as the deadly […]

LOS ANGELES: Tennis great Serena Williams says she is “on edge” as she practices social distancing recommended by health experts in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus. The 23-time Grand Slam champion posted a series of videos on TikTok describing her concerns for her two-year-old daughter, Olympia. “Now I’ve been social distancing for […]