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legendary
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Big counties suspending their sporting events, I would not be surprise that more will follow especially the smaller countries where they usually follow what the big countries are doing, the threat of corona is not so big but the panic made it worst, this only shows how not ready the government on this pandemic.
Big sports events right now are suspending their games because of COVID-19 and because of this shitty virus, some of the gamblers are forced to stop gambling right now if they are gambling on sports events and maybe they will be gambling on other games if they don't choose to stop.

There are more disastrous virus in the past than this virus. The problem is the media is hyping it making the people panic at its highest. The virus is controllable and in South Korea, the number of recovering right now is greater than the number of affected persons one proof that it is controllable already with proper medical kits.
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This year started really really badly. Sports are mostly listed so I can just add these esports suspended plans or activities:

https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/riot-suspends-lcs-season-moves-2020-spring-finals-to-los-angeles
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-suspends-all-esports-live-events-to-limit-coron/1100-6474769/
https://www.shacknews.com/article/116874/esl-one-dota-2-los-angeles-major-postponed-over-coronavirus-concerns

Esports are also affected by this pandemic and I think it will be really boring with the tournaments being done online. There is also a chance that some of the players might take advantage of it.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21167652/coronavirus-esports-impact-league-of-legends-pubg-csgo-iem-katowice
legendary
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Big counties suspending their sporting events, I would not be surprise that more will follow especially the smaller countries where they usually follow what the big countries are doing, the threat of corona is not so big but the panic made it worst, this only shows how not ready the government on this pandemic.

Of course that governments are not prepared. Who could expected something like this and that corona virus will spread so fast throughout the world.
However, catastrophe stil can be prevented and exactly from reason of prevention large sport events are cancelled. And not only sport events but all those who gather a large number of people.
That is bad for sport lovers and gambling lovers but health comes first and this situation will not last forever.
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Big counties suspending their sporting events, I would not be surprise that more will follow especially the smaller countries where they usually follow what the big countries are doing, the threat of corona is not so big but the panic made it worst, this only shows how not ready the government on this pandemic.
It's the government's initiative going into a big crowd to prevent from getting infected on the virus.
If popular athletes, and actor was infected, there's a big possibility that we are going to be infected as well as we continue to go out and go in a big crowd.

The decision is bad for the economy but the government should always ensure safety first or good health of the people over profit as eventually when more and more are infected, people will still not gonna go in big events, so the government here are just thinking in advance.
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Big counties suspending their sporting events, I would not be surprise that more will follow especially the smaller countries where they usually follow what the big countries are doing, the threat of corona is not so big but the panic made it worst, this only shows how not ready the government on this pandemic.
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Coronavirus is something else, saw one NBA player on news not beleiving in corona and showed this by touching the mic and table were the news conference was held only to be tested positive  Tongue and with some chelsea players having tested positive for the virus we might be seeing the english premier league being suspended and gambling will become boring with no games to wage on.
legendary
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The effects of the global spread of the C virus have haunted everyone from gambling, sports leagues to MotoGP, no exception.

Effect C: Qatar MotoGP opener cancelled over coronavirus threat

In Japan also experienced the same thing in the last decade Japan appeared afraid in the Olympics this year will experience a cancellation and also the Swiss Super League will delay after the government conducts a public event.

And as I see again Liverpool also experienced a bad thing that would cancel the match schedule, due to the effects of the C virus phenomenon.

Effect C: Coronavirus outbreak: Would Liverpool be denied the Premier League if title race is cancelled?
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Coronavirus also have big impact for sport events in indonesia because the latest news i had heard that Formula E event on Jakarta will be postponed with no time limit specified
legendary
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There will be huge impact in terms of money. In my country, basketball league made very strange decision - they ended championship in the middle of season and announced champions. It means that league and clubs will get less money from sponsors, less revenue from TV rights. It's force majeure situation and it means that clubs will not pay money to players for remaining months of season...

Lol really. Didn't other team raised questions regarding this decision. I wonder what basketball league that is.

I think they will be forced to take this decision back by other teams and fans very soon. Best course of action is to suspend  the league for some time and see how the situation goes on and take decision afterwards if it has taken long and we haven't find any solution for the virus.
legendary
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OP more casualty for your list. Every major cricket event -Postponed due to COVID-19-

- IPL ( Indian Premier league)  
- League games of World Test Championship (England vs Sri Lanka)
- Australia vs New Zealand
- India vs South Africa
- World XI vs Asia XI
- Australia W vs South Africa W (W=women)
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I doubt it, every minute, ncov cases are increasing but I'm also hoping that it won't reach June or July.

People are also excited about the upcoming championships on different eSports games like The International 2020 of DOTA 2 and Worlds 2020 of League of Legends. My year is not complete if these tournaments will be canceled due to Covid.

Worlds 2020 is one of my fave tournaments where I always bet since I know which is the team that plays stronger.

Containment will not fix the problem and many sporting events will be cancel the biggest I believe is the NBA season we will not have an NBA championship this year, if there is still no cure for this epidemic we will see no big sporting events anymore unless a cure comes out of this or we become immune of it.
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I strongly agree that this corona virus has caused many important events in the world of sports to be postponed, especially in sports
important football matches must be postponed. Even Cristiano Ronaldo decided to stay in Portugal for a while. Because his teammate
daniele rugani is positively affected by the corona virus. Hopefully this corona virus problem can be found soon a vaccine that really
works to cure the virus in a short time.
legendary
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Also, Badminton grand Prix this year affected coronavirus. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has taken the necessary step to suspend all tournaments from Monday 16 March until Sunday, April 12. [1]

here some even:

- YONEX Swiss Open 2020,
- YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2020,
- Orléans Masters 2020,
- CELCOM Axiata Malaysia Open 2020
and almost international Grade 3 tournaments too.

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The suspension of the circuit will come into effect following the completion of the YONEX All England Open 2020 in Birmingham, England, on Sunday 15 March

[1]. https://bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2020/03/14/bwf-suspends-international-badminton/
legendary
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Just few weeks ago we didn't even thought that such scenario is possible, but now most of sports leagues and competitions around the world is stopped and future of it is very questionable.
From what I see, competition in Europe is still going on in Turkey, Russia, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine, some Asian and South American countries, most of Africa and Australia. It's probably first time since WW2 when most of competition were forced to stop. It will definitely cost lot of money.
What really will be interesting is the amount of money in sports. As we all know teams pay these players according to how much they make as well. Now that teams in almost all sports will play a lot less but contracts are already out there, I am pretty sure it will be reflected some other way. NBA teams even will pay for not played games for hourly workers let alone others, so people who are hourly will get paid even when they are not working, that has to come out of somewhere. I suspect there will be a lower cap space for next year as well.
There will be huge impact in terms of money. In my country, basketball league made very strange decision - they ended championship in the middle of season and announced champions. It means that league and clubs will get less money from sponsors, less revenue from TV rights. It's force majeure situation and it means that clubs will not pay money to players for remaining months of season...
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The trouble is not actually being able to gamble or not, even a person with corona could just open a website and gamble anywhere they want. The trouble is NBA, NHL, F1 and many others are all getting cancelled.

The most recent news was march madness getting closed for example, NCAA march madness is one of the leading gambling options out there during march, it allows people to gamble on a elimination based games and sometimes they play on outrights as well, with that being gone I think one of the most highly gambled sports game out there is gone. However poker, dice, plinko and stuff like that all still out there and can be played, so I doubt it is a total loss for online casinos, they can still offer computer games that could help people gamble whenever they want to.
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I'm hoping that this Corona virus will end sooner than we expected I don't want to reach the month of July where one of the biggest sporting events is going to happen and that is the Fury Wilder match, people are anticipating  this third match and the Corona Virus if it will not be stopped can make an impact, although they can think of proceeding without a live audience I don't know if this is possible.
I doubt it, every minute, ncov cases are increasing but I'm also hoping that it won't reach June or July.

People are also excited about the upcoming championships on different eSports games like The International 2020 of DOTA 2 and Worlds 2020 of League of Legends. My year is not complete if these tournaments will be canceled due to Covid.

Worlds 2020 is one of my fave tournaments where I always bet since I know which is the team that plays stronger.
legendary
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Sadly, the impact of the virus to sports events does not only refer to cancelled or postponed games. So far, we have already athletes who are themselves infected with COVID-19. Earlier, we had Utah Jazz's player Rudy Gobert. It was immediately followed by a teammate in Donovan Mitchell who also tested positive of the infection.

Other than these NBA players, we also have COVID-19 victims in football. Daniele Rugani of Juventus tested positive of the virus. Arsenal has also reported that their manager Mikel Arteta is also infected with the same.

Even the 2020 UAE Tour is affected by this pandemic. The cycling race event has already started and was halfway when it was suddenly cancelled when two participants from Italy was found to be positive of COVID-19.

This is a time for sports to have a hiatus.  

It is very bad right now. So many fad news from everywhere and it is impossible to track and read them all. This is catastrophic for everything not just sports. It is crazy.
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 Premier league did cancelled as well. I thought UK was handling it very well, that sounded a little premature to suspend right away but considering the exponential growth of the number of infected, it does sound like a good decision. I mean would you prefer to wait too late to suspend and have players with corona on the pitch running for 90 minutes or would you prefer everyone to be healthy and stay that way instead.

 What really will be interesting is the amount of money in sports. As we all know teams pay these players according to how much they make as well. Now that teams in almost all sports will play a lot less but contracts are already out there, I am pretty sure it will be reflected some other way. NBA teams even will pay for not played games for hourly workers let alone others, so people who are hourly will get paid even when they are not working, that has to come out of somewhere. I suspect there will be a lower cap space for next year as well.
legendary
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Here’s a couple of websites which are pretty comprehensive

Maybe the other way round would do better - just list all the sports/leagues, that are still running Grin From the sports I follow (a bit), only Snooker is still running. In cycling, Paris-Nice is still going, but most of the upcoming races have been cancelled as well. This will be some boring upcoming weeks, but on a positive note, once everything starts to resume again, we will have a very busy schedule. Every day will be full of sports to watch and bet on.
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