Should professional sport get back on its feet, whatever the cost?
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French international Antoine Dupont, Toulouse Stadium player.
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By: Loïc Bussieres
31 min
It's a catchphrase, not to say a tradition when September comes: after the political, media or back-to-school start comes the start of the stadiums.
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The professional football, rugby, basketball and other championships resume their rights.
And the supporters their habits before the summer break.
Yes, but that was before.
Before the Covid-19 comes to change the rules.
And impose those of masks, half-filled steps, and nasopharyngeal tests.
Rulers in the form of pebbles in the cleat shoe.
Like the Top 14 rugby, which begins this evening, with already a postponement of the match for health reasons ...
The footballers, no more serene, are worried about the cascading cases of Covid:
Doubt hangs over the start of the school year of the PSG.
As for the Tour de France, maintained despite the contrary winds, it
lives under a bell, in the anguish of a cluster ...
So was it necessary, finally, to resume competitions despite the threat of a second wave?
Can the club economy be freed from the risk of contamination?
Should professional sport get back on its feet, whatever the cost?
To discuss it
:
Pierre Rondeau
, sports economist, co-director of the Sport and Society Observatory of the Jean Jaurès Foundation
Clément Dossin
, journalist at the Team
Laurent Travers
, managerial trainer of 92 rugby racing
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