How the Coronavirus Is Disrupting Sports

Baseball

Major League Baseball postponed the start of its regular season, scheduled for March 26, by at least two weeks and canceled all remaining spring training games.

Japan has postponed the start of its baseball season, scheduled for March 20, until April.

Running

The New York City Half Marathon, scheduled for Sunday, has been canceled. The Paris Marathon has been delayed from April to October. The Barcelona Marathon has also been postponed until October. The Rome Marathon on March 29 has been canceled.

Winter Sports

The World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, scheduled to run March 18 to 22, have been canceled. The event was expected to feature about 200 skaters from more than 50 countries.

The women’s world ice hockey championship, to be played in Canada beginning March 31, has been canceled. The Alpine World Cup finals, scheduled to begin March 18 in Italy, have been canceled. The last three races of the women’s skiing World Cup, to be held in Sweden, were canceled.

A cross-country World Cup race this weekend in Minneapolis was canceled.

Auto Racing

NASCAR and IndyCar will hold races without spectators.

Indy will race Sunday in St. Petersburg, Fla., with no fans. NASCAR will do the same in Atlanta and Miami the next two weeks.

The McLaren team pulled out of the Formula One season opener in Australia later this month after a team member tested positive. The race in China, scheduled for April, was previously postponed.

Matt Futterman, Sopan Deb, Kevin Draper and Marc Stein contributed reporting.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/sports/coronavirus-sports.html