What is the state of French professional sport in the face of the Covid?

Cédric Chasseur with Julien Holtzer 6:26 p.m., December 28, 2021

During a press briefing, Jean Castex and Olivier Véran took measures to try to stem the spread of Covid-19.

Regarding the world of Culture and Sport, large gatherings are now limited to 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 people outdoors.

Standing concerts will be banned, which has made many artists cringe. 

Deferrals multiply

Gauges which will not however prevent the matches from taking place.

On condition that they take place.

Indeed, postponements are increasing and this is because of the increasing number of cases within the teams.

For the moment, only Ligue 1 has managed to avoid postponements.

But remember, all the same, just before the truce, Bordeaux, PSG, Rennes, Reims and Angers had announced positive cases in their ranks.

In rugby, the Top 14 saw its Boxing Day cut by four matches out of the seven scheduled for Sunday and Monday.

It's the same in basketball.

No match last night, for example, between Boulogne-Levallois and Le Portel.

Eight positive cases out of twenty in the French handball team

The Covid invites itself everywhere, including within the French men's handball team, which is trying to prepare for the Euro as best it can in mid January. Of the 20 called, 8 are positive, plus a member of the staff, which complicates the life of coach Guillaume Gille. "The problem is above all health. It is sporty because we cannot train in optimal conditions. But it is the lot of adventures with the Covid. We are adapting, find protocols that allow us to continue to move forward and to better prepare for this competition, "he said.

We will see what impact this will have on the performance of the Blues in Hungary.

In any case, without the application of a strict protocol on the arrival of the players, it could have been worse.

"We avoided a small disaster", has also conceded the doctor of the France team.