Sports resume in South Korea amid low daily increase of COVID-19 cases
May 05, 2020 9:55 ISTThe national baseball league in South Korea will resume on Tuesday, while the football league will also begin later this week.
The national baseball league in South Korea will resume on Tuesday, while the football league will also begin later this week.
Organised by the International Chess Federation and Chess.com, the six-team event, touted to the richest online team tournament, features all the big names in the game with World champion Magnus Carlsen being the only big gun missing from the line-up.
British chess legend and FIDE (world chess federation) vice-president Nigel Short, who participated, said he was glad to be of help in the fight against COVID-19.
The funds will be used to provide basic necessities for patients at various locations, migrant workers and slum dwellers.
The contest, devised by the three pole vaulters on Sunday, was a race to see who could produce most 5m vaults within a 30-minute period, all from their own back gardens amid the coronavirus pandemic which has brought the entire sporting calendar to a grinding halt.
Leco died at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last weekend after being admitted two weeks earlier with severe respiratory problems
As part of the initiative by 'iFor India', actors, musicians, singers, sportspersons and business leaders came together to entertain people from their homes in a bid to help the COVID-19 pandemic cause.
Sports minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said all necessary precautions will be put in place before sparring can commence again.
Kambala jockey Srinivas Gowda of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh's Rameshwar Gurjar hit national headlines last year for running in slushy and dusty fields respectively.
The continental hosts for the Olympic wrestling qualifiers remain unchanged, meaning that China will host the qualifiers next year.
Rijiju said the coronavirus-forced nationwide lockdown, which has been extended till May 17, forced his ministry to delay the resumption of the training camps at Sports Authority of India (SAI) centres.
The sport is struggling to survive in the country because of lack of sponsors owing to the national team's poor show at the international stage.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) tested the sample of Kumari at its Montreal Laboratory in Canada and it returned positive for anabolic steroid Metenolone in November 2018.
Earlier this month, the ITTF was forced to cancel as many as nine tournaments including two World Tour events amid the ongoing health crisis.
Stevens won the US national title in the women's 200 meters in 2017 and was a finalist in the 200m at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The world championship is an annual event, although not held in an Olympic year. But, with the 2020 Tokyo Games postponed to next year, it will be the first time that the prestigious event will be conducted in the Olympic year.
During his time with the Chicago Bulls in the 90s, Jordan won six NBA titles and was also named finals' Most Valuable Player (MVP) on all six occasions.
The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled to be held from July 23 to August 8 this year but the quadrennial event was postponed by a year last month owing to the pandemic, which has so far claimed over 2 lakh lives globally.
The 20-year-old had shown a lot of promise when he made his senior India debut in 2018 and was touted as the next big thing in Indian hockey.
LA Lakers' LeBron James said that nobody wants to cancel the NBA, adding that his team is 'ready' to take the court.
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