From the Australian Open to the Ashes, our writers assess the chances of the year’s big-ticket sporting highlights taking place
It has been billed as a golden year of sport. But, as our team of reporters has discovered, there are growing doubts about whether the biggest jewels in the 2021 calendar will take place in all their glory – or, in some cases, at all.
There is an expectation the 12-city format for the Euro 2020 football tournament will be slimmed down, perhaps even to a single city, while Uefa has already started to plan for the absence of fans. There are major doubts over the Lions tour to South Africa. And, while organisers remain confident that the Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead as planned this summer, the spike in Covid-19 cases is making them nervous.
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