Kravitz. Screenshot of video data.
China News Service, July 21. The new crown pneumonia epidemic that has swept the world since the beginning of this year has had a huge impact on the world sports arena. One of the consequences of the suspension of the event is that many practitioners in the sports industry lose income. During this period, the news that they had to work part-time was in the newspapers.
Last year’s French Open men’s doubles champion Kevin Kravitz has been working at a supermarket in Germany at 5:30 every day since March, loading shelves, spraying disinfectant on shopping carts, and working in the supermarket for 4 hours a day, basically every month. The salary is only 450 euros.
The sport of tennis, which is highly professional and can give birth to a wealthy sportsman (Federer tops the Forbes 2020 Athlete Income List with over 100 million U.S. dollars), has indeed been greatly affected by this epidemic.
In April this year, foreign media reported that Wang Qiang and coach Thomas had a disagreement over the salary issue during the epidemic. The report even stated that Thomas had to make money to support his family by delivering pizza. Although the two clarified the matter successively and reached a consensus, the "sending pizza" was not groundless. Thomas did say, "If it is to the point where pizza is needed, I will do it, everything is just for living."
Miyake Ryo. Screenshot of video data.
Affected by the postponement of the Olympic Games, many athletes in Olympic events have even become a problem with training expenses. Japanese athlete Ryo Miyake, the silver medalist of the men's foil team at the 2012 London Olympics, also became a part-time takeaway, earning about 310 yuan a day.
Football, as the world's number one sport, is also severely affected by the epidemic. Big clubs with tens of millions of fans have introduced new policies to help themselves. Small teams in small leagues have tightened their belts. Some of them have silently "died" in this epidemic.
The northern hemisphere is in the midsummer, but for the sports world, it is no different than winter. May the epidemic dissipate as soon as possible, and the world sports arena will return to life soon! (Finish)