The first team on the brink of elimination by coronavirus

• Covid protocols. Between postponements and suspensions: will sports competitions be able to come to an end?

The

can become the first eliminated from a competition due to the confusing health security protocols derived from the Covid pandemic.

The professional and semi-professional leagues have returned to the competition without having clear the rules under which they will be judged if they have positives in their squads, even less if they turn out to be

.

This is the case of the Alicante team, which can be seen outside the

due to tests that have not been conclusive, but which condemn them to keep 10 days of quarantine.

Fernando Latorre's team had to travel to Vienna today to face the

Austrian

in the second leg of Round 2 of the European competition, which they came with a 34-31 first leg victory.

However, the

has prohibited them from traveling.

The reason is that the entire team underwent PCR tests before traveling to Huesca last Thursday.

Already in the Aragonese capital they received the result:

.

"Although Asobal only requires serological tests from us, we decided to do a PCR because in Europe they do ask us for it. When they communicated the positives to us, the match was postponed and, with the support of Huesca, we again did serological tests that were negative" , tells El Mundo the president of BM Benidorm,

.

The expedition returned by bus to the Alicante town, "with all the security protocols", and they all again underwent a PCR, which again tested negative for all the components of the template.

"We inform Health of each step at all times, and the surprise is that they tell us that,

and force us to quarantine the entire team for ten days because they have traveled on the same bus. "

The consequence of this decision is that the European future of BM Benidorm is

.

As in many other sports, you do not have a standard to adhere to in these cases.

"It is not established what happens. They can choose to postpone the match or eliminate us from the competition.

" laments Abinzano.

From Benidorm continues to provide arguments to Health so that its refusal is reconsidered.

"We offered to do a third PCR on the entire staff and in writing they told us no. They cling to the protocol quarantine when there is a positive and they do not want to understand that the tests say that we do not have any positive and, therefore, there has been no contagion, "insists the president.

Federation Report

The club has turned to the Spanish Federation, whose legal services have prepared a report that they will present to Health in a few hours, to political institutions and even to

to intercede for them.

"At the moment they have not listened to anyone. If they keep us in quarantine, in addition to facing a possible expulsion from the competition,

, with a very tight schedule."

The sports damage is also joined by the economic one.

They have lost the cost of the flight, the hotel is in the air and the PCRs have been able to cope thanks to the fact that one of their sponsors is the IMED Levante hospital.

"We have undergone

. There are many clubs that do not have this possibility and those that do, seeing what has happened to us, will wait for the counter-analyzes before communicating it to Public Health", warns Abinzano.

The case of the BM Benidorm is the evidence that the anticovid protocols of Health, less in each autonomous community, have a difficult and uneven adjustment in the different professional sports.

While in soccer and basketball, Liga and ACB isolate positive players and allow negative players to compete, in handball they force confinement and in tennis they directly expel the athlete from the tournament.

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