Tag: COVID-19


Huge turnout expected at Indy 500 in August

Indy 500 2020

This year’s Indianapolis 500 race on August 23 is expected to attract more than 100,000 spectators after officials confirmed details of the rescheduled iconic US motorsport event. It will be the 104th edition of the motorsport spectacle. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is an automobile racing... » Read more


COVID-19-hit Brazil set to resume Serie A

Brazil set to resume Serie A

The 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A season is all set to resume on August 9 and has been given the all-clear signal. This announcement was made by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) irrespective of the fact that health experts have expressed concern that COVID-19 could be peaking in the... » Read more


Austria to let in fans from September

Austria Bundesliga will return with fans

Austria’s Federal Minister of Public Service and Sport Werner Kogler has said that up to 10,000 fans can be allowed in the stadiums from September this year. However, more details on the same are awaited. Fans will be admitted to stadiums gradually – step by step. Come August 1, and 1,250... » Read more


French stadia to greet fans back on July 11

Stade de France back with fans

French stadiums will welcome fans back to its fold on July 11 with the rider that only 5,000 spectators will be let in with strict social distancing rules in place due to COVID-19 global outbreak, the specter of risk of which has still not gone. Ligue 1 – the top tier of French football –... » Read more


COVID-19 brakes on Beijing sports events

China Beijing Olympics update June 2020

All sports events in Beijing were halted recently following new COVID-19 cases surfacing in the city. A public notice issued by Beijing’s Municipal Sports Competitions Administration Centre stated, “Due to changes in the situation of epidemic prevention and control in Beijing, all kinds of... » Read more


OVG task force to help ‘sanitize’ venues

Oak View Group safe venue opening

Los Angeles-headquartered American global advisory, development and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries – Oak View Group – has announced that a task force has been set up to help establish safety protocols to reopen live entertainment facilities after worldwide... » Read more


Denmark club’s ‘500 only’ fan formula

Denmark FC Copenhagen stadium

Danish top-tier Superliga football club FC Copenhagen has chalked out plans to welcome 10,500 fans to its residence – the 38,065-capacity ground Telia Parken in Copenhagen, Denmark. Telia Parken, also known as Parken Stadium, is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen,... » Read more


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