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Argentina has banned all internal and international commercial flights until September 1st because of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The authorities said airlines should not be allowed to sell tickets for flights that may not go ahead in the next four months.
Argentina closed its borders to non-residents in March, imposing tough quarantine measures.
The move may prevent the Jaguares being involved in any revamped Super Rugby competition this year, while it is likely to stop Argentina being involved in any Rugby Championship.
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French top leagues halted
Ligue 1 has become the second major European football league to be cancelled due to coronavirus after French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced no sporting events, even those behind closed doors, could take place before September.
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Officials had been hoping teams could resume training within a fortnight after plans emerged earlier this month for the league to resume on June 17 and conclude on July 25.
But the French top flight and Ligue 2 will now follow the Dutch Eredivisie in ending their seasons due to the pandemic.
The decision could provide an obstacle for UEFA, who had been looking into completing the Champions League and Europa League campaigns in August.
According to reports, the Ligue de Football Professionnel will meet next month to make final decisions over how to finalise the standings.
PSG lead the standings by 11 points from Marseille, with one point separating Rennes in third, which comes with a Champions League qualifying berth, from Lille in fourth place and a Europa League spot.
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Tour de France to start without fans
The Tour de France may have to make arrangements for limiting the number of spectators in order to comply with a ban on major events gathering more than 5,000 people before September.
The Tour is scheduled to start in late August.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says that following the end of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown on May 11, major sporting and cultural events bringing together more than 5,000 participants cannot be held before September.
Philippe did not specifically mention the Tour de France, which has been postponed to Aug. 29-Sept. 20 from its original June 27 start date.
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World Athletics starts hardship fund
World Athletics and the International Athletics Foundation have come together to launch a $825,000 fund to help athletes in financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The coronavirus outbreak has brought sporting events worldwide to a halt, leading to a loss of income for athletes.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe will chair a group assessing applications for assistance. The group will meet this week and also look into how to raise additional funds.
The Diamond League, the elite track and field competition, was forced to postpone events in seven cities scheduled between April and June due to the outbreak.
The next scheduled meet is in London on July 4 followed by Monaco on July 10.
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Reds striker passes away
Former Liverpool striker Michael Robinson has died at the age of 61.
The former Ireland international, who won a league, League Cup and European Cup treble with Liverpool in the 1983-84 season, also played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers before ending his career with Spain's Osasuna.
Leicester-born Robinson stayed in Spain after his playing career finished in 1989 and became a respected television commentator, pundit and presenter.
Robinson had said in December 2018 that he had a malignant melanoma for which doctors said there was no cure.
After spells with Preston North End, City and Brighton, Robinson joined Liverpool - the team he supported as a boy - in August 1983 as a back-up to Ian Rush.
Robinson was capped 24 times by Ireland and scored four goals for them.
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Suggestion County Cricket should play without overseas players
The England and Wales Cricket Board should consider a shortened County Championship season without overseas players for two years to offset the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak, former England skipper Michael Vaughan said.
The ECB has extended its suspension of the professional game until July 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which means nine rounds of County Championship fixtures will be lost.
Counties face losses of up to $174 million if the season is scrapped altogether, the BBC said citing a report from financial advisory firm Oakwell Sports.
"Traditionalists will go mad at this, but these are unprecedented times. In the next two years, could you look at not having overseas players for the four-day game" Vaughn said.
Some counties, including Yorkshire and Essex, have cancelled or deferred contracts of overseas players due to the financial impact of the outbreak, which has shut down sports globally.
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Surfing postponement extended
The World Surfing League extended the postponement of events through June because of the COVID-19 pandemic, chief executive officer Erik Logan said on Tuesday, while at the same time announcing a major overhaul for future tours.
"As frustrating as it is, at this point the status of the 2020 Championship Tour and all of our (other) events is still unknown but we will work with all authorities on the possibility of returning to the line-up," chief executive Erik Logan said.
Logan said last year's end to the season, where Brazilians Italo Ferreira and Gabriel Medina went into the final heat of the final tour event in Hawaii with the title still at stake, showed that surfing needed to have a grand final every year.
Logan said more details of this post-season surf-off would be announced in July but he added that finishing top in of the regular tour rankings would ensure a major advantage.
Surfing will make its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games next year.
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World Boxing Champs taken from India
Amateur boxing body AIBA has stripped New Delhi of the 2021 men's world championships and handed them to Belgrade instead.
AIBA said it had terminated the contract, signed in 2017, after India failed to meet host city payment obligations.
India will have to pay a cancellation penalty of $825,000, it added.
AIBA's interim president Mohamed Moustahsane said the plan was to keep the existing dates and hold the championships after the rescheduled 2021 Tokyo Olympics if the COVID-19 pandemic allowed.
The International Olympic Committee last year suspended AIBA over issues surrounding its finances and governance.
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