Leclerc wins again: Formula 1 star as an e-sports expert

FC Midtjylland from Denmark is planning a “drive-in cinema” in front of the stadium in the event that the national league should continue with ghost games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Large vidiwalls have already been installed in the parking lot of the MCH Arena, which should make it possible for fans to watch the Superliga games from their cars.

Charles Leclerc is not just an aspiring Formula 1 driver. The 22-year-old can also do it during the Corona break in the new VR series and won again. Ferrari’s Monegasse prevailed in the third round of the series on the virtual Shanghai International Circuit after 28 laps against Red Bull driver Alexander Albon. Leclerc had also won at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne two weeks ago.

The VR series was launched by the motorsport premier class after the cancellation of the current Grand Prix due to the corona crisis for the fans. The races of the virtual series always take place on Sundays on which one would have actually driven.

Goalie Courtois as 15

A total of 19 drivers took part in the virtual Shanghai race, including Real Madrid’s Belgian soccer goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. He was 15 in Red Bull.

Austria’s tennis association will announce a tournament series in the corona crisis on Monday together with the German Tennis Association (DTB). Professionals like ÖTV star Dominic Thiem or German Jan-Lennard Struff should take part. “The goal is that these players can continue to have match practice. Corona-compliant, however, ”said DTB Vice President Dirk Hordorff.

After the criticism from fan circles, DFB President Fritz Keller seeks understanding for the ghost games sought. He could understand the concerns. The consequence of not doing this “would be that some fans might never be able to attend a game in their club again because it could soon be gone,” the 63-year-old wrote in a guest post for the “kicker” on Monday appears. “But we don’t want to give up a club,” emphasizes Keller

Jens Lehmann caused excitement. The former German national soccer goalkeeper caused discussions about the handling of the German Bundesliga with the corona crisis and caused incomprehension. Contrary to the opinion of experts and the requirements from politics, the 50-year-old believes that a continuation of the season with viewers is also conceivable.

“Nobody has been able to answer this question, why in a stadium like the Allianz Arena, where 70,000 people come in, why you can’t put 20,000 in there,” said Lehmann on Sunday in the Sport1 program “Doppelpass”. With a “distance of ten meters” fans in the stadium would “probably never get in each other’s way”.

SG Flensburg-Handewitt sees an end to the season in the German men’s handball Bundesliga as the only realistic option. “You can count that on five fingers. Under the current circumstances it is not possible to continue the season,” said managing director Dierk Schmäschke on Sunday. The defending champion is second behind THW Kiel, where Nikola Bilyk plays.

Austria’s team captain could soon celebrate his first championship title in the German upper house. A coordination of all 36 clubs in the 1st and 2nd league is currently underway regarding the further procedure. The next Bundesliga club bosses’ video conference will be held on Tuesday.

LASK is the first Bundesliga club to start training in small groups on Monday. The leader of the table announced on Sunday. The session in the Raiffeisen-Arena in Pasching starts at 10:00 a.m., before that there is a short press conference in the guest bank area with President Siegmund Gruber, Vice President Jürgen Werner, Trainer Valerien Ismael and Captain Gernot Trauner.

All media representatives must wear masks and keep a minimum distance of two meters. The remaining Oberhaus clubs and Austria Lustenau will not start training before Tuesday, as an APA broadcast on Sunday showed.

After a true odyssey, the footballers of the Chinese first division club Wuhan Zall FC returned to Wuhan on Saturday evening. Several hundred fans gave the professionals a warm welcome at the city’s main train station, where the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus had started at the end of last year.

When the crisis broke out in Wuhan, the players of the Chinese Super League club were in a training camp in Spain. Because Wuhan was completely sealed off from the outside world at this time, the professionals had to stay in Malaga for almost three months. They then returned to China a month ago and were quarantined in Shenzhen for several weeks. After that, the team last stayed in Foshan near Guangzhou, ten hours by car from Wuhan, where they could train normally.

Like the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia reports, an internal letter from FC Barcelona should indicate that the Camp Nou is still closed to the public for a long time. According to this, the most optimistic scenario is to provide for a season end in front of closed grandstands, the fans could only return to the stadium on November 15th. A much more negative forecast would even include a viewer ban until February 2021.

In Italy, too, there has recently been talk that the series is even planning games without an audience by March 2021. Such scenarios are of course also relevant for Austria’s league, where it should start with ghost games in the near future.

The corona restrictions are often difficult to endure, especially for children: Ex-gymnastics star Philipp Boy has therefore considered a small workout for his daughter at home. “The children want to move,” said the 32-year-old. And even if you don’t feel like it, you should try to motivate them. Boy also uploaded a video of the gymnastics unit to YouTube.

“For a children’s workout, I think the optimal time is between twelve and 20 minutes,” said Boy. However, especially with strength exercises, one should take care not to make them too difficult for children. And another tip for designing the workout: “Build a story around it because children want to go on a trip.”

In a season break in the English Premier League, club boss Tony Bloom of Brighton & Hove Albion said there should be no relegations. “It would be very difficult to relegate a club if the season didn’t end,” said Bloom. “This would not take into account the strength of the previous opponents,” added Bloom. His team would be 29 points out of the table after 29 match days. not affected.

The 20 Premier League clubs had agreed on Friday to definitely close the current season despite the coronavirus pandemic. However, no deadline was set for this. British media had previously reported that several clubs planned not to play beyond June 30. A termination of all 92 games still pending by then seems difficult to implement.

Austria’s top athletes can finally start training again on Monday according to precise guidelines from the German government. An amendment to the regulation to prevent the spread of Covid-19 stipulated that top athletes who do their jobs and take part in international competitions may start training from April 20.

It is important for the athletes and their supervisors that a distance of at least two meters must be maintained. Squad players, coaches and coaches from the twelve Bundesliga football clubs and the ÖFB Cup finalist Austria Lustenau are allowed to train in small groups of a maximum of six squad players with the same composition. The measures also apply to disabled athletes.

For the well-known German and French politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the corona crisis will clear up the “irrationality of professional sport”. The 75-year-old Green politician, who had long been a member of the European Parliament, recently commented in a column in the French newspaper Ouest-France and chose a drastic comparison to describe the impact of the pandemic on sport: “It’s like there was a nuclear attack and it needs to be rebuilt, but for other reasons.”

Among other things, Cohn-Bendit advocated an upper salary limit. But that doesn’t just apply to players. “The system of managers who do business with them must be destroyed.” A Kylian Mbappé would no longer cost 200 million euros, which Paris Saint-Germain once allegedly transferred to AS Monaco for the attacker of the French national football team, but 35 to 40 million euros.
The giantism of the Olympic Games must also be reconsidered: with the return to the simple. “How? I don’t know,” wrote Cohn-Bendit.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner expects Formula 1 owners to provide financial help for racing teams threatened by bankruptcy in the Corona crisis. “It’s their business, they have to decide how to keep these teams alive because they need teams to race,” said the British Guardian the 46-year-old. According to Horner, rights owner Liberty Media “will do everything they can to ensure that ten teams will compete and compete next year.” This would also include payments to the racing teams.

Formula 1 canceled all races until June due to the coronavirus pandemic. It remains to be seen whether it will still be possible to drive this year. Smaller private teams in particular are concerned about their economic survival. A number of these racing teams have already sent many employees on short-time work.

During the ATP and WTA due to the Coronavirus pandemic no tennis tournaments are held Patrick Mouratoglou a five-week event at his academy in Biot in France. The coach of US star Serena Williams wants to give players the chance to collect match practice after their forced break. From May 16, ten games are on the program every weekend. At the start of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS), in which several million US dollars in prize money will be awarded, the Australian Alexei Popyrin and the Belgian world ranked tenth David Goffin will meet.

Thomas Tuchel also uses the football interruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic to read and sleep. He tries to stay calm, said the German coach of the French top club Paris Saint-Germain in a video interview on the club’s homepage on Saturday. “It was a strange situation, a really strange situation,” emphasized Tuchel at the beginning of the six-minute conversation. He and his family are healthy and together in Germany. He was in contact with his players, but not too much, he left them a bit alone, my Tuchel. He also hopes that it will start again sometime in order to offer people a bit of variety in these times. “But we know very well that there are more important things than football.” You have to stay strong and not lose confidence, said Tuchel.

David Beckham applauds and the list of former and current soccer players who follow is well known. There are 50 of them, including Brazil’s legend Pele, Argentinian Diego Maradona and Frenchman Zinedine Zidane. They all thank with their applause for a campaign by the FIFA World Association “Everyday Heroes” for their tireless fight against Covid-19. “This invisible opponent has turned our lives upside down,” the 79-year-old Pele is quoted in a FIFA statement. “But thanks to the courage and dedication of health workers worldwide, we will all emerge stronger from this crisis. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. ”The campaign has the hashtag #WeWillWin. At the end of the 1:24 minute video on youtube.com, hospital staff will also be shown before thank you appears in many languages.

At Bundesliga champions Red Bull Salzburg equip yourself for the training start in small groups next week. Since Friday, the sports department around trainer Jesse Marsch has been tested for the lung disease Covid-19. Almost 60 percent of the test results have already been evaluated, and there was no positive case. This was reported by the table runners-up via Twitter.

Even the former Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas has been among the fundraisers in the face of the corona virus crisis. With a 36-hour tour on a turbobike in his garage in Cardiff, the Welshman raised £ 300,000 (£ 345,000) until Saturday in aid of the British health service NHS. “Without exaggeration, the last two hours have been the hardest I have ever experienced on a bike,” said the 33-year-old BBC. “I could hardly sit down anymore.” The Welshman drove for twelve hours on three days. He compared this to climbing eight or nine stages of the Tour de France. “I’ll take a week off to recover from it,” said the 2018 tour winner.

Gonzalo Higuaín could not return to Juventus Turin. The 32-year-old is currently in his argentinian home with his family. Like the transmitter Sky Sport Italia Higuaín said it was dangerous to go back to Italy. In addition, the station wrote on Saturday of a difficult family situation of the attacker, without giving any further details. The Italian championship has been interrupted since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The football association is pressing for an early resumption. Higuaín is said to have concerns about the uncertainty and uncertainty. There had recently been speculation that Higuaín could return to the River Plate in Buenos Aires. The center forward’s father, however, had referred to his son’s contract with Juventus, which is still valid until June 30, 2021.