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Basketball: Fraport Skyliners fear corona failures

FThe Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) has agreed to hold a virtual league conference this Friday. The 18 club representatives will deal mainly with the coronavirus and the rapidly spreading Omikron variant for urgent reasons. The Würzburg team cannot currently participate in the game because the local health department has quarantined the team for two weeks after a mass of coronavirus cases.

The Oldenburg team are also not playing at the moment, their away game against the Fraport Skyliners this Sunday had to be postponed. And at Alba Berlin, a total of eleven players and team members are also said to be affected by a violent corona outbreak. It is therefore now “the task of the clubs and the league to review and adjust the regulations with regard to Omikron”. The aim must be “to curb the risk as much as possible,” said Yannick Binas, managing director at the Skyliners, of the FAZ on Thursday.

In Frankfurt, all players are vaccinated twice. Some of them are also boosted. “We are now doing it step by step,” announced Binas. A week ago, national player Lukas Wank tested positive for the corona virus in Frankfurt. According to Marco Völler (Manager Sport) it was not the Omikron variant. “Lukas was bad for two days, but now he’s better,” says Völler. Other Skyliners personnel did not become infected. “We managed to prevent the virus from being carried into the team,” says Binas. Before Wank fell ill, the Frankfurt team carried out rapid tests on a regular basis. Now they do this every day and before each team meeting. In addition, the club will go over to “carry out PCR tests, especially directly before the games,” announced Binas. “It was standard for us before the vaccination. Due to the current situation, this is necessary again. ”The managing director expects that PCR tests will become a standard of the league immediately before the games.

Due to Wank’s illness, the Frankfurters had PCR tests carried out on everyone involved at the airport early last Sunday. The Hessians booked the “super express” tariff because they had to play in Giessen from 3 p.m. onwards. After three hours, the Skyliners had results that were gratifying for them. The cost of the tests: 200 euros per person, a total of 20. The club had to pay for it itself.

According to their own assessment, the Frankfurters upheld the hygiene requirements even before the Omikron wave began. “So we don’t have to do something new in an actionist way. We’ll continue to do this, ”says Binas. Generally speaking, adhering to the Bundesliga game plan in the coming weeks is “certainly a challenge” from his point of view. That more games will be canceled, “I definitely have that fear,” says Völler. “We run the risk that there will be a domino effect.” In this case, however, he does not assume that competition will be distorted. “The league would find a proper solution so that everything can be fairly fair and just.”

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