Paris (AFP)

The cancellation, announced Sunday, of the Qatar Moto GP Grand Prix, scheduled for March 8 at the opening of the World Championship, is the latest of major sporting events that have disappeared from the international calendar due to the spread of the coronavirus to worldwide.

List of canceled, postponed, moved or threatened sporting events:

. EUROPE

Athletics

- The Paris half-marathon, scheduled for Sunday March 1 and for which 44,000 runners were registered, has been canceled.

basketball

- Ladies' Euroleague: two Italian teams, Venice and Schio, had a match won on the green carpet, their opponents, the Latvians from Riga and the Hungarians from Sopron, having refused to play it.

Badminton

- The German Open, which was scheduled to take place from March 3 to 8, has been postponed and is likely to be canceled entirely. That of Poland (March 26-29) is postponed sine die, and this tournament will therefore be excluded from the qualifying period for the Tokyo Olympics.

Soccer

- Italy: Inter Milan organized behind closed doors its Europa League match on Thursday 27 February against the Bulgarian club Ludogorets and potted by Inter 2-1.

After the postponement of four matches of the 25th day of Serie A scheduled for February 23, six matches of the 26th day (Sampdoria Genoa-Hellas Verona, AC Milan-Genoa, Parma-Spal, Sassuolo-Brescia, Udinese-Fiorentina, Juventus- Inter Milan), scheduled for Saturday February 29, Sunday and Monday, have been postponed to May 13.

The Barcelona team was also subjected to tests upon arrival in Naples, before the Champions League match between the two teams on Tuesday.

- Switzerland: the 24th day of the Football Championship scheduled for Saturday February 29 and Sunday has been postponed

Rugby

- Six Nations Tournament: the Irish Rugby Federation, after a meeting with the Irish Department of Health, has decided to postpone the Six Nations Tournament match between Ireland and Italy to a later date. place Saturday March 7 in Dublin.

- Women's VI Nations tournament: the Italy-Scotland match scheduled for Sunday 23 February in Legnano in Lombardy has been postponed.

- Italian Championship: the Italian championship matches scheduled for next weekend have been rescheduled, as has the final postponed to June 6.

- Pro14: two matches of Pro14, a club competition between British, Italian and South African teams, which was to be played on Saturday, were also postponed.

Alpine skiing

- World Cup finals: the Ski World Cup finals will be well contested in Cortina (Italy) but without the public (March 18-22).

Tennis

- The final of the Challenger tournament - the 2nd division of the ATP Tour - in Bergamo in northern Italy, which was to be played on Sunday, has been canceled.

. CHINA / ASIA

China and its neighboring countries were the first to see their sporting events shaken up by the epidemic.

Soccer

- The Chinese football championship, which was due to start on February 22, has been postponed, as have "competitions of all types and at all levels".

- The national team will play two qualification matches for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar against the Maldives on March 26 and against Guam on 31 in stadiums behind closed doors in Thailand.

- The kick-off for the South Korean national championship, which was to be given on Saturday, has been postponed and no resumption date has been set.

- Two matches of the Asian Champions League, in Seoul and Ulsan in South Korea, will be played behind closed doors on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 March.

- The Japanese football federation announced Tuesday, February 25, the postponement of all matches scheduled until March 15, in the league and in the Cup.

Tennis

- Davis Cup: China was forced to forfeit the Davis Cup against Romania. The meeting was scheduled for March 6 and 7 in Romania. The Japan-Ecuador meeting, scheduled for the same dates, will be held behind closed doors.

- WTA: Xian's WTA tournament, which was to be played in mid-April, has been canceled

Marathon

- The Tokyo marathon in Japan scheduled for March 1 has been canceled for amateurs and that of Pyongyang in North Korea, which is traditionally held in April, has been canceled

Modern Pentathlon

- The 2020 Modern Pentathlon Worlds, qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympic Games which were to take place at the end of May in Xiamen in China, have been relocated to Cancun in Mexico

Athletics

- Indoor worlds: scheduled in Nanjing, China from March 13 to 15, they have been postponed to 2021. It was to be the first major event of the year in athletics, four months before the Tokyo Olympics (July 24 - 9 August).

Alpine skiing

- Men's World Cup: Xiaohaituo Mountain, 50 km north of Beijing, the site of the 2022 Winter Olympics, was to host a downhill and Alpine skiing super-G for the World Cup from 12 to 16 February. The stage has been moved to Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria).

Golf

- LPGA: after the cancellation at the end of January of the stage on Hainan Island, the Pataya tournament, which was to start on February 20, and that of Singapore scheduled a week later, were also canceled by the northern circuit -American female golf course.

Cycling

- Tour of Hainan: the International Cycling Union (UCI) canceled this UCI ProSeries event, scheduled from February 23 to March 1 on the Chinese island of Hainan.

Swimming

- World Diving Series: scheduled for March 7 to 9 in Beijing, the Chinese stage has been canceled by the international swimming federation.

- Synchronized swimming: the world series scheduled for Suzhou from April 23 to 25 has been canceled.

car

- Formula E: Sanya's ePrix, scheduled for March 21 on the southern island of Hainan, has been canceled.

Badminton

- Masters of China: the tournament scheduled from February 25 to March 1 in Lingshui, on the island of Hainan, has been postponed sine die after the withdrawal of several players.

Formula 1

- The Grand Prix of China scheduled for April 19 in Shanghai has been postponed, and that of Vietnam on April 5 is maintained for the moment

Fight

- Qualifications for the Olympic Games: the Asian wrestling qualification tournament scheduled from March 27 to 29 will not take place in Xi'an (center) as planned, but the new host city has not yet been determined.

Rugby

- World rugby seven series: the rugby sevens tournaments of Hong Kong and Singapore, which were to take place in April, have been postponed. The Singapore Sevens will be held on October 10 and 11, before the queen stage of the circuit, from October 16 to 18 in Hong Kong.

Table tennis

- The World Table Tennis Teams, which were to be held from March 22 to 29 in the South Korean city of Busan, were rescheduled by the International Federation (ITTF) from June 21 to 28.

. MIDDLE EAST

Cycling

- UAE Tour: the last two stages of the UAE Cycling Tour (UAE Tour) scheduled for Friday 28 and Saturday 29 February, were canceled after the discovery of contamination by coronavirus from two members of a team's management.

Motorbike

- The Qatar Moto GP Grand Prix, which was to mark the opening of the season on Sunday, March 8 in the queen category of the World Speed ​​Motorcycle Servant, has been canceled by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), "in because of restrictions on the movement of people from Italy (among other countries) ".

The FIM, on the other hand, maintained the Qatar Grand Prix in Moto2 and Moto3, whose riders have been in Qatar since last week for testing.

Sport

- The government of Kuwait asked on Monday the sports federations of the country to suspend all sporting events for a period of fifteen days, according to the official agency Kuna.

Triathlon

- Short-distance World Cup (Olympic and sprint: the start of the World Series - which has 7 stages -, originally scheduled for March 6 and 7 in Abu Dhabi, has been postponed.

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