A return at two speeds. At the beginning of March the pandemic forced all sports to be interrupted at the same time, but the return of each one will be different. It will be uneven. Some will dedicate all their resources to return to normalcy and others will wait for public aid or disappear until the fall. In the first group, there is soccer, as LaLiga, Formula 1, MotoGP, golf and perhaps basketball have shown this week. In the second, handball, water polo and, in short, most of the Olympic disciplines that cannot even ensure an early recovery from training. In a third group, tennis or cycling are kept even without detailing their plans.

The speed of recovery of each will depend on their ability to prepare a security protocol and a key element in it: the tests. After the controversy that arose this week around soccer, it is worth wondering which sports also have this aspect prepared, essential for a return. Without knowing if they are infected it is impossible for the competition to start and, therefore, the tests are a treasure. At the moment, only four sports have them or have announced their purchase. Whether in Spain, England, Germany or France, soccer is one of them, but there are three more.

Formula 1, MotoGP and golf follow the same path. All three plan to limit access to their facilities to a minimum and test everyone who enters. The head of the World Cup, Ross Brawn , only indicated that plan, but since the MotoGP World Cup and the PGA Tour they are more specific. Dorna assures that she will only allow the paddock to enter between 25 and 40 people per team and that she has ordered some 10,000 tests for the first Grand Prix. The PGA Tour, meanwhile, will leave only 800 people per tournament and claims to have requested a million tests for the remainder of the pandemic. In all three cases, the action will return in June and will unleash thereafter with events practically every weekend.

Basketball has yet to be specified if tests have already been purchased in their soon-to-come plans - at the moment, Euroleague and ACB only specify that they await instructions from the health authorities - but the rest of sports are in a very remote situation. The Higher Sports Council (CSD) assures that it will not make public its plan for the High Performance Centers until the Ministry of Health gives the green light and in the meantime competitions are falling. Handball and water polo have already closed their leagues and from both they assure that it is still early to know if they will test the following season. Athletics and swimming practically give up on lost waiting to save a Spanish Championship whenever it is and in contact modalities such as taekwondo or judo there are no great hopes either.

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