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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - The diaries are fuller than ever.
After the Corona crisis paralyzed global professional sport for months in the spring, the associations and organizers now want to do everything they can to catch up on what they missed in the 2020 epidemic year.
In the summer of 2021, the pan-European football championship, the Wimbledon tennis tournament, the Tour de France and the Tokyo Olympic Games are to take place in direct succession.
The question that hovers over everything: Is a scheduled staging possible this time despite Corona?
The onset of the pandemic had shaken the sports calendar vigorously and for a long time.
After the relocation of the Olympics and European Championships in March, numerous other sporting events had to be postponed in order to avoid duplication in summer 2021.
Active athletes and fans can now expect two consecutive years of super sports, each with the Olympics and a major football event.
While there is a lot going on in the summer of 2021, the following year the big highlights with the winter games in Beijing (February 2022) and the World Cup in Qatar (November and December 2022) will take place in winter.
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For the next year, the organizers have started the bitter fight against time.
The new corona infections skyrocketed again in the autumn months, many return concepts for spectators in stadiums are back in the drawers after a corresponding ban by politics.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin wants to stick to the EM plan with twelve arenas spread across Europe so far.
The umbrella organization quickly denied the corresponding rumors that the tournament, like the 2018 World Cup, could only take place in Russia.
Instead, the European Football Union deals with four different spectator scenarios, ranging from full capacity to ghost games.
In view of the past few months, it is relatively certain that a European football championship can be played in the summer of 2021.
On March 5th, a definitive regulation is to be made as to how many spectators at the venues are allowed to enter the individual EM stadiums.
Then UEFA wants to determine at which of the twelve venues which scenario is used.
The specification for the twelve venues should then be binding.
The DFB team, which was badly shaken at the 0: 6 in Spain, meets France, Portugal and Hungary in the preliminary round.
The three group games are scheduled in Munich.
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Thomas Bach and his IOC are expecting an even more difficult task than Ceferin and UEFA.
Not only 24 soccer teams, but around 11,000 athletes from all over the world compete in the Olympic Games.
The IOC's great hope is a vaccine against the coronavirus that could be widely available by next summer.
The IOC will make "great efforts" to ensure that as many participants and fans as possible are vaccinated against the corona virus before the trip to Japan next year, said Bach.
“We do this out of respect for the Japanese people.
You should be sure that everything is done to host safe games in Tokyo, ”said the IOC chief.
However, Bach ruled out compulsory vaccination.
It is still completely uncertain whether and how many fans will be able to attend the largest sports festival in the world.
Bach and the IOC, which were sharply criticized in the spring for the late cancellation of the games, are longing for a signal that international sport could send out worldwide in the current crisis situation.
"Together we can make these Olympic Games and the Olympic flame a light at the end of the tunnel," announced Bach.
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In addition to the Olympics and the European Championship, 23 Formula 1 races, the return of the Wimbledon tournament after a one-year Corona break and the Tour de France starting in Brittany are on the program.
Germany will host a major event in the spring: the Nordic World Ski Championships are to take place in Oberstdorf from February 23 to March 7.
The organizers in the Allgäu are currently planning with 2500 spectators, but also have to fear ghost competitions.
After all: the concern that the event will be completely canceled at short notice is "low", emphasized the President of the Ski Association, Franz Steinle.
The most important sports dates in 2021:
JANUARY
01/03/06
Ski jumping: Four Hills Tournament, 2nd / 3rd / 4th
Jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen
01-10
Nordic skiing / cross-country skiing: Tour de Ski in Val Müstair / SUI, Oberstdorf, Toblach and Val di Fiemme / ITA
03-15
Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia
07-17
Biathlon: World Cups in Oberhof
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09-10
Tobogganing: EM in Sigulda / LVA
13.-31.
Handball: World Cup in Egypt
16./17.
European speed skating championships in the Netherlands
22.-24.
Alpine skiing: World Cup in Kitzbühel / AUT
29.-31.
Tobogganing: World Championships in Königssee
FEBRUARY
01-14
Bobsleigh / Skeleton: World Cup in Altenberg
02/03
Football: DFB Cup, round of 16
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07. American Football: Super Bowl in Tampa / USA
* 8-21
Tennis: Australian Open (not yet official)
08-21
Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo / ITA
09-21
Biathlon: World Cup in Pokljuka / SVN
11-14
Speed skating: World Championships in Heerenveen / NLD
16.-24.
Soccer: Champions League, first round of 16
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20./21.
Athletics: Indoor championship in Dortmund
23-07
Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf
25.-28.
Speed skating: World Championships in Salt Lake City / USA
28-07
Table tennis: Team World Cup in South Korea
MARCH
02/03
Football: DFB Cup, quarter finals
05-07
Short track: World Cup in the Netherlands
09-17
Soccer: Champions League, second leg round of 16
12-14
Handball: Olympic qualification tournament in Berlin
19th football: Champions and Europa League draw
19.-21.
Gymnastics: DTB Cup in Stuttgart
20. Cycling: Milan-Sanremo / ITA
20.-28.
Curling: Women's World Cup in Schaffhausen / SUI
21. Formula 1: World Cup opener in Melbourne / AUS
22.-28.
Figure skating: World Cup in Sweden
24th football: start of the 2022 World Cup qualification in Europe
24.-31.
Soccer: U21 European Championship, part 1
28th motorcycle: World Cup opener in Qatar
28. Formula 1: Bahrain Grand Prix
APRIL
03-11.
Curling: Men's World Cup in Ottawa / CAN
05-07
Rowing: Olympic qualification in Varese / ITA
06/07
Soccer: Champions League, first leg quarter-finals
08-11.
Golf: Masters in Augusta / USA
09-11
Rowing: EM in Varese / ITA
11. Formula 1: Chinese Grand Prix
11. Cycling: Paris-Roubaix / FRA
13./14.
Soccer: Champions League, second leg quarter-finals
13-18
Tennis: Fed Cup finals in Budapest / HUN
19.-25.
Wrestling: EM in Warsaw / POL
21.-25.
Gymnastics: EM in Basel / SUI
25. Formula 1: races, venue open
27./28.
Football: Champions League, first leg semi-finals
MAY
01 cycling: Eschborn-Frankfurt
01/02
Football: DFB Cup, semi-finals
04/05
Soccer: Champions League, second leg semi-finals
08. cycling: Giro d'Italia, start in Sicily
09 Formula 1: Spanish Grand Prix
10-23
Swimming: EM in Budapest / HUN
11. Basketball: Bundesliga, start of the playoffs
12-16
Riding: Hamburger Derby
13th football: DFB Cup final in Berlin
20.-23.
Golf: PGA Championships on Kiawah Island / USA
21.-06.
Ice hockey: World Cup in Belarus and Latvia
22. Basketball: Start of the NBA playoffs
22. Soccer: Bundesliga, 34th and last matchday
23rd football: Premier League, 38th and final matchday
23-06
Tennis: French Open in Paris / FRA
23. Formula 1: Monaco Grand Prix
26th football: Europa League final in Gdansk / POL
27. Darts: Premier League in Berlin
28.-30.
Basketball: Euroleague Final Four in Cologne
29th football: Champions League final in Istanbul / TUR
30th DTM: Season opener in St. Petersburg / RUS
31.-06.
Soccer: U21 European Championship, part 2
JUNE
03-06
The finals: German championships in up to 20 sports in Berlin, Braunschweig and the Rhine-Ruhr region
04-13
Hockey: EM in Amsterdam / NLD
05/06
Athletics: DM in Braunschweig
06. Formula 1: Azerbaijan Grand Prix
11-11
Football: EM in twelve cities, including Munich
13. Formula 1: Canadian Grand Prix
15.-20.
Fencing: EM in Plovdiv / BGR
17.-20.
Golf: US Open in San Diego / USA
22.-27.
Table tennis: European Championship in Warsaw / POL
26.-18.
Cycling: Tour de France, start in Brest
27. Triathlon: EM in Frankfurt
27. Formula 1: French Grand Prix
28.-11.
Tennis: Wimbledon in London / GBR
29-04
Riding: CHIO in Aachen
29-04
Basketball: Olympic qualification in Croatia
JULY
04. Formula 1: Grand Prix of Austria
15.-18.
Golf: British Open in Sandwich / GBR
18. Formula 1: Great Britain Grand Prix
23-08
Summer Olympics in Tokyo
AUGUST
01 Formula 1: Hungarian Grand Prix
14.-05.
Cycling: Vuelta, start in Burgos
15. Cycling: Cyclassics in Hamburg
29. Formula 1: Belgian Grand Prix
30.-04.
Riding: EM in jumping, Riesenbeck
30.-12.
Tennis: US Open in New York / USA
SEPTEMBER
05. Formula 1: Grand Prix of the Netherlands
07.-12.
Riding: EM in dressage, Hagen / Osnabrück
12. Formula 1: Italian Grand Prix
16.-19.
Canoe: World Championships in Copenhagen / DNK
15.-22.
Climbing: World Cup in Moscow / RUS
21.-26.
Canoe Slalom: World Championships in Bratislava / SVK
24.-26.
Golf: Ryder Cup in Sheboygan / USA
26. Formula 1: Russian Grand Prix
28.-03.
Table tennis: Team EM in Cluj-Napoca / ROU
OCTOBER
02-10
Wrestling: World Cup in Oslo / NOR
03. Formula 1: Singapore Grand Prix
09th Triathlon: World Cup in Hawaii / USA
10. Formula 1: Japanese Grand Prix
18.-24.
Gymnastics: World Cup in Japan
24. Formula 1: US Grand Prix
31. Formula 1: Mexican Grand Prix
NOVEMBER
14. Formula 1: Brazilian Grand Prix
17. Football: End of the World Cup qualifying group stage in Europe
22.-28.
Tennis: Davis Cup in Madrid / ESP
28. Formula 1: Saudi Arabia Grand Prix
DECEMBER
01-18
Soccer: Arab Cup in Qatar
02-19
Handball: Women's World Cup in Spain
05. Formula 1: Season finale in Abu Dhabi
30. Ski jumping: Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf
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