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Chinanews client, Beijing, October 16th (Wang Hao) Recently, in the European professional sports world, teams have been unable to compete due to the epidemic, and the game has been directly judged to lose.
For various reasons, the European professional league has to continue under the shadow of the epidemic, but such extreme circumstances have caused many people to ask whether such regulations are fair?
A few days ago, Serie A officially announced that in the match between Juventus and Naples on October 4, local time, due to the absence of the visiting team Naples, the game could not be played. The Sports Court ruled that Naples lost with a score of 0:3 and was deducted from the standings. One point.
This result is reminiscent of Xiao Shenyang’s famous line in the Spring Festival Gala: You can’t order a dish, do we have to take one?
In Naples, is this a pointless and a point?
Serie A officially informed the situation after Naples did not show up for the game.
It turned out that before that round of the match, the Naples players Gerinsky and Elmas tested positive for the new crown virus.
The local health department therefore banned Naples from traveling, and the club applied for the game to be postponed.
However, Serie A believes that according to the new crown prevention and control regulations that all teams have unanimously passed before the season, the two positive cases in the team did not endanger the team's participation in the game.
Therefore, the proposal to postpone the game was rejected.
On the day of the game, Naples did not appear on the court.
The sports judge believes that although the initial opinions of the local health department made it difficult for Naples to travel to Turin, the health department did not explicitly prohibit travel to Naples before Sunday, but Naples had cancelled the scheduled flights and hotels at that time.
The European Basketball League announced the penalty.
Naples is entangled because of whether to go out to play, and some teams have even missed the lineup for going out.
A few days ago, the European Basketball League officially announced that Zenit was sentenced to lose two games with a score of 0:20 because it did not meet the minimum requirements for 8 people to participate in the game.
The reason for this situation is that 13 members of the Zenit team tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid last week, including 8 players and the head coach.
Imagine that as a member of the team, you are suffering from a widespread infection of your teammates, and you are encouraging each other to get out of the difficult situation and you will be able to return to the game, when you are suddenly told that you will lose the game because of insufficient manpower. What is your mood?
Even as a bystander, seeing such news will raise questions. Someone has already been infected. Shouldn't the game be suspended?
Is it really fair to continue the game like this?
Data Map: On the evening of September 24th, Beijing time, according to AC Milan’s official website, the team forward Ibrahimovic tested positive for the new crown virus.
In fact, for many professional leagues, it is already in a "cannot stop" state.
In the first half of this year, in the news that some European football stars were infected with the new crown virus, it can be seen that they have some obvious violations of epidemic prevention regulations.
However, recently, people have discovered that there are more and more news about European athletes being "recruited". It seems that it is impossible to find the cause of infection from the perspective of insufficient personal protection.
The recent epidemic in Europe has been fierce. Under such circumstances, athletes’ risk of infection will naturally continue to increase.
The rule of losing the game can no longer be regarded as a reversing mechanism for each team to pay attention to epidemic prevention, but more like a helpless way to try to ensure fairness.
Data map: On September 21, local time, the Premier League giants Manchester City Club issued a statement saying that the team midfielder Gundogan tested positive for the new crown virus.
Since the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic at the beginning of this year, most professional leagues around the world have undergone a long suspension. After the restart, they can only be played empty-field, with heavy losses in terms of sponsors, TV broadcasts and ticket revenue.
Some small clubs have declared bankruptcy. Even the wealthy and powerful clubs in the past, many have carried out large-scale pay cuts and even layoffs.
And if the event continues to be suspended, the consequences are likely to be more serious.
This is the reason why some professional leagues in Europe immediately restarted when the first wave of the epidemic slowed down but the cases were not cleared. It is also the reason why major league organisers are sticking to the game despite the increasing number of infection cases.
From the point of view of Naples and Zenit, it is obviously unfair that a player who is unable to participate because of infection will be sentenced to lose, and even penalty points will be required.
But they shouldn’t accuse their opponents of profiting because of the same overall environment and the same rules formulated in advance. In theory, anyone could become such a "unlucky guy". I believe this is not what their opponents want to see. .
Data map: On the evening of the 13th Beijing time, the Portuguese Football Association announced that Ronaldo tested positive for the new crown.
The picture shows Cristiano Ronaldo interacting with French star Mbappé in the UEFA Europa League match between Portugal and France on the 12th morning of Beijing time.
From the perspective of the event organizers, the current situation is also helpless, and faces huge risks all the time.
More and more athletes are infected with the new crown virus, and many of them are sports superstars. Leagues like the five major European leagues that still have months of schedule, it can be said that the future is uncertain.
Perhaps the only way to solve this dilemma is to effectively control the epidemic.
Although we don’t know when this day will come, we hope to be faster and faster... (End)