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Coronavirus: all the major international sports events affected by the epidemic
- An increasing number of high-profile sporting events have been cancelled, postponed or moved
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Coronavirus continues to lay waste to the international sporting calendar at the beginning of 2020. Hong Kong sport has been badly affected by the outbreak but so has the region and, increasingly, the wider sporting community.
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The following is a list of international sports events affected by the coronavirus that has killed over 1,000 people and infected more than 43,000 so far in China after it first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, late last year:
Athletics
The World Athletics Indoor Championships, which had been scheduled to take place in Nanjing from March 13-15, were postponed until next year. World Athletics is working with organisers to settle on a date to host the biennial event in 2021.
The Asian Athletics Association cancelled its February 12-13 indoor championships in Hangzhou.
Football
AFC Champions League matches involving Chinese clubs Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG have been postponed.
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