Olimpia has requested the measure due to the decision of the local authorities to impose the quarantine measure on the team after several members of the same team tested positive for COVID-19, which does not allow them to have the minimum number of eight players. eligible to play.
Following the COVID-19 Special Regulations, approved by the ECA Shareholders Executive Board, each game can be rescheduled up to three times, in the presence of available dates. Euroleague Basketball, let the Lombards know, will coordinate the best options with both teams in order to reschedule the match. The new date will be announced by Euroleague Basketball once official.
The suspension of the team’s activities until December 27 also causes the impossibility of playing the championship match between Olimpia and Virtus Bologna, scheduled for the 26th. On this point, the president of the LBA, Umberto Gandini, “having acknowledged the inability to play “the match,” he ordered “the postponement of the match”. The recovery methods will be indicated in the next few days.
