These sporting events were canceled: find out why
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Terrorist attacks, natural causes, diseases, and of course acts of violence, have attempted important events in the world of sport
The final of the Copa Libertadores River Plate against Boca Juniors is not the only event that has been canceled or postponed due to other reasons. In fact, there are many cases, such as terrorist attacks, diseases, natural causes, have prevented the partial or final realization of them, and in LatinAmerican Post we want to review some cases and the impact they generated at the time.
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Cases of violence
The daily Marca, of Colombia, remembers that in 1989 the Colombian League was deserted as a result of the murder of the referee Álvaro Ortega, also that Brazil sent to a selection B, and Argentina did not attend the edition of the Copa América Colombia 2001, by the constant kidnappings and extortions that occurred in the coffee country.
The violence has two popular cases in the south of the continent, in 2003 in Argentina, the sixth date of the Opening was suspended by a court order that prevented the federal police from being in the security operations of the Buenos Aires stadiums. Finally, in 2017, it was Uruguay that paralyzed their championship due to the fact that two referees were attacked, after a match in the U19 category.
However, cases of violence can be treated or fought, but this is not the case with natural factors, diseases or terrorist attacks.
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Cases unrelated to violence
El Nuevo Día mentions cases such as the two major league games canceled at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Puerto Rico, where the Miami Marlins and the Pittsburgh Pirates would play, when the Zika virus boomed in May 2016. Other cases, According to El Nuevo Dia, they are:
October 17, 1989
A natural disaster. The San Francisco earthquake forced the Major Leagues to postpone the continuation of the World Series, which was suspended for 10 days until resuming the actions in the third game, an unprecedented event.
September 9, 2001
The fateful terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York forced to postpone for two weeks the fight between the then world champion, the Puerto Rican Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and the American Bernard Hopkin. Major League Baseball was again affected, and several games were suspended, delaying the schedule.
September 2003
The havoc caused by the SARS disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome prevented China from hosting the IX FIFA Women's World Cup, so the agency decided to change headquarters, and grant it to the United States. Of course, the event was developed as planned between September 23 and October 11 of that year.
June to December 2005
The passage of Hurricane Katrina by the United States will be remembered for the devastation it caused in New Orleans, a city that is below sea level. That fact forced the now-defunct New Orleans Hornets to play their home games off their court. Same story for the NFL Saints, whose eight home games should have been played in alternate stadiums.
July 17, 2010
In the run-up to the inauguration of the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, an atmospheric phenomenon (thunderstorm with winds) hit the area with gusts of wind over 45 miles, which ended with the lighting towers of the Central American Stadium in addition to leaving seven injured in the surroundings of the enclosure. The ceremony, happily, was held the next day.
November 13, 2015
The terrorist attacks in Paris forced the cancellation of several sporting events, except the friendly one between France and England of elders. But if the European Rugby Cup, the volleyball and Hándbol leagues, and an international taekwondo one were canceled.
Affected Olympic Games
On the other hand, the Omicrono portal has a list of similar events, including three Olympic Games, which were canceled for reasons related to the First and Second World War, while others suffered changes of venue due to diseases such as Ebola, SARS and the already mentioned Zika.
Berlin 1916 and Helsinki 1940
In 1914 the first World War broke out, in which the German Empire participated actively, so two years later they were not in a position to host the Olympics that had been designated to Berlin. This edition was initially granted to Japan, but the Second Sino-Japanese War prevented it and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on Helsinki, a city that could not host it either because of the outbreak of World War II. Something similar happened to London in 1944, but this time, it could have been in 1948 when the wars had ceased.
Ends the aforementioned portal mentioning cases such as foot-and-mouth disease, in Britain in 200 1, a viral illness with strong symptoms, which caused that two days of the Irish league, the Rally of Wales and a rugby game between England were suspended and Scotland, and Ebola, which toured Africa in 2015 and which caused Morocco to lose its African Cup of Nations venue for refusing to hold it in time, asking to wait for the effects of the disease to pass.
LatinAmerican Post | Onofre Zambrano
Translated from "Conoce las razones por las que estos eventos deportivos se cancelaron"
