Updated:29/12/2020 00:45h
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2020 is over, the year that will be forever marked by the coronavirus. The year of the pandemic. A before and after for Humanity, which has suffered one of the hardest blows in its recent history. Esport has not been immune to the health crisis most serious of the last hundred years and, although many events have managed to move forward after a change of date and in special circumstances, there have been many others that were canceled forever. There will be forever a void in the record of different tournaments, who chose to give in to covid-19 and think about the future.
This is the case, for example, of Wimbledon, where there will never be 2020 winners. The main grass tennis tournament announced its cancellation at the beginning of April, without giving the option of postponement or waiting for the evolution of the pandemic. The last time the tournament champion had been deserted was in 1945 because of the Second World War.
In tennis there were many tournaments that did not finally see the light, among them the Mutua Madrid Open, which after looking for an alternative date in September finally decided to cancel and look with ambition towards 2021.
No Euroleague champion
Not only has the racket been deprived of joys, there was not (nor will there be) a 2020 British Open golf winner. The 149th edition of the tournament will take place in 2021, so the iconic 150th edition will be at St. Andrews in 2022.
In the basket the times were managed quite well, waiting for the end of the first wave to start the final of the ACB or the NBA. The Euroleague was not as agile, which in the face of difficulties caused by the pandemic chose to cancel its season. There will therefore be no king of Europe 2020. Joy that disappeared forever and left Mirotic and Barcelona wanting to reach the Final Four.
Athletics was one of the first to see its events canceled. He Mundial de Nanjing, scheduled for March, was quickly postponed to the following year, although a few days ago the IAAF postponed it until 2023 and left its celebration on the air. Worse luck ran the Boston Marathon, one of the largest in the world, which after a first postponement saw that it was impossible to hold it with or without an audience. Nor were those in New York and Berlin finally held.
Before entering 2021, the world of sport holds its breath waiting for the vaccine to relieve global pressure and allow the celebration with a certain normality of the planned events. May there be no more postponed joys or titles that will never be celebrated.
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