Next year could be a bountiful year for sports fans after the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic forced almost all of this year’s major sporting events to be cancelled or postponed.
The tradition-steeped Wimbledon Tennis Championships is the most recent major event to be cancelled, raising fears that tennis might also not return until next year.
Continental football action next year begins in Cameroon, with the Afcon finals scheduled for January 9 to February 6. The 21-year-old will most likely be included in the French Olympic team, with more game time awaiting the quicksilver striker at his club, Paris Saint-Germain, in the 2020/21 campaign.
The global athletics championships were scheduled to take place in Eugene, US, but the competition has been postponed until 2022, the same year the Commonwealth Games in the UK are scheduled to take place .
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