What sports do you think that can resume amid Covid-19 scare.

[Casdinyard]

Say no more, UFC already resumed their events and now slowly going back to normal business . Actually their next event would be the UFC Fight Night 176. Woodley vs Burns is the main event.

They resumed 2 weeks ago, but there are no spectators allowed during the fights, they will just broadcast it on television since social distancing is a MUST. Bob Arum said this is greediness from the chairman promoter of UFC. I don't know if this old man do really care for the player, coz honestly UFC will put its full effort to avoid the unwanted disease, or he's just jealous coz boxing can't get any reopening. lol.

- Poker

Hmm, I'm a little bit skeptical regarding this one. You know, playing cards is one of the dirtiest objects. Different hands handle it from one player to another thus a best place for faster transmission of the virus. So I think if poker tournaments will now open once again, chips and cold cash should not only be on top of the table but mainly hand sanitizers lol.

It is negative for table games like poker, multiplayer sports game or team game. Especially with poker that cards is being handed to everyone, but I doubt they did not thought of wearing gloves. It's more likely to open single sport games like billiard, tennis, etc. And boxing, it's just like UFC tell Bob Arum to bear with low income haha

[peter0425]

I think Horse Racing is one that can also be resume even when there is pandemic because the race track are too big so the physical distancing can be done .

and crowd can watch thru Online so what stops them to starts the game?

Just like boxing that has been conducted recently in small country,then why not race operator resumes now?

[Fundamentals Of]

Based on the list you gave, I think golf or billiards is more likely the first one to resume even in the midst of covid. I am basing on whether the sport does not have to make a physical contact against an opponent, or there is no need to be near another person. In contrast to swimming which has players sharing the same pool at the same time or boxing and poker which needs fighters and players respectively to be closer to each other.

But in the end it will be about how influential or powerful the promoters and organizers are.

[swogerino]

I would be extremely cautious regarding the sports which can resume and from that list I only agree with Swimming because of the water which is one of the “remedies” against Covid 19.

We are often told to wash our hands with soap as often as possible in order to not get the Covid 19 so as long as swimming takes place in the water I see no risk of the virus here.

[avikz]

Here is my list.

- Billiards
- Swimming
- Golf
- Boxing
- Poker

These sports can also be played without an audience.

Any if these sports can resume, but without spectators. In our fight against COVID, social distancing is the key. It seems like COVID is not going to go away for at least one year so we all have to learn to stay safe from it. Opening up a game with live audience is going to fail the social distancing norms.

Along with your list, I want to add Table Tennis because this is another game which looks better in TV. That's what is going to be the norm for at least one year.

[sportbettor]

Here is my list.

- Billiards
- Swimming
- Golf
- Boxing
- Poker

These sports can also be played without an audience.

Any if these sports can resume, but without spectators. In our fight against COVID, social distancing is the key. It seems like COVID is not going to go away for at least one year so we all have to learn to stay safe from it. Opening up a game with live audience is going to fail the social distancing norms.

Along with your list, I want to add Table Tennis because this is another game which looks better in TV. That's what is going to be the norm for at least one year.

Many single sports are held almost without spectators in the stands because of their low popularity, so they can safely continue their competitions. In addition to table tennis, this, for example, also badminton, golf, darts, billiards, chess.

[cabron]

Any sports can resume without spectator, its just that are players willing to participate to risk their lives?

Its still scary to get out of the house to just watering plants outside because our nosey neighbor might just start a small talk and he always do. Esports I guess is the safest for all because there is no need to go out.

[Lucius]

All sports, especially outdoor ones, can continue without spectators - provided, of course, that all participants are healthy. However, there is always a risk that participants become infected during the game, only one infected person is enough to pass it on to other players in close contact. In football, basketball or handball, such contacts are impossible to avoid, so these athletes are perhaps the most endangered.

A study was recently conducted "Sport Safely Launches," in Italy and these are some of the conclusions :

Reportedly, sports that offer almost no possibility of spreading the infection are sailing, open water swimming, golf and tennis.
As for tennis, it also has rules that recommend that tennis players wear goggles and gloves and that each player has their own balls at the service.

Categories 0 and 1 are solely individual sports, among them athletics. However, some athletic disciplines increase from zero during training to the third category due to the number of athletes in action.

As for collective sports, water polo, which is in category two, has the lowest risk of spreading the virus, with the explanation that water polo is played in chlorinated water, which can disable the virus.

Football is placed in category three, while rugby, basketball, volleyball and handball are in the "most endangered" category four, as are all martial arts.

It is stated that in indoor sports, contact is more frequent, space is smaller, and volleyball is specific because actions take place in a line, where athletes are very close to each other.

For players in collective sports, it is recommended that they be tested 48 hours before each match, that reserve players on the benches wear masks and that all equipment is disinfected.

[btcltcdigger]

Formula or any race, if there are no spectators.

Or maybe synchronized swimming, as there are no spectators there anyway

But jokes aside, any non contact sport should be good

[Ryker1]

Well, on my own all of them are good. Sports perhaps resume even when there is no vaccine for COVID 19 yet but as long as all players and people who will be working on the sports events must undergo extreme precautionary measures. Regardless of what sport it is, it must resume for some people, and athletes makes these events as their source of livelihood. All of them must be isolated and be subjected first to a 14-days quarantine before the actual date of the game and make sure that they will not show any symptoms of COVID 19 for the security of everyone. Even audiences can be allowed in the venue provided that they should also take the same precautionary measures as what the others have undergone before allowing them to be in the venue as a live audience. Indeed, --practically not wise for an audience for a sports fanatic like me in the amid of COVID 19 yet will be allowed to become a live audience it will compensate everything though.

[plvbob0070]

I think they can resume any sports given, they only need to limit or safer not to allow a live audience. They can still continue sports events but with more caution and strict protocols to follow. If the place of the event is not that heavily affected by the virus, it's greater.

We can't really just wait for the virus to vanish before we can resume most events. It will also be hard for athletes if they can't play. The best thing they can do is to make sure that everyone including the athletes and staff that will enter the place will be monitored first. Temperature checks and other safety measures before conducting the activity. But I think, sports with lesser participants are more likely to resume than other sports because of the social distancing.

[ChuckBuck]

Formula or any race, if there are no spectators.
Or maybe synchronized swimming, as there are no spectators there anyway

Not necessarily no audience  There have been some cycling simulator racing held in recent times due to the prolonged status of Covid-19. I don't know if you guys follow it or not, but it's really cool and has a lot of followers. In addition, tennis tournaments are organized in a similar manner. The audience can stay home and watch the live tournaments on screen, it's no different than going outside to watch 

[BChydro]

They resumed 2 weeks ago, but there are no spectators allowed during the fights, they will just broadcast it on television since social distancing is a MUST. Bob Arum said this is greediness from the chairman promoter of UFC. I don't know if this old man do really care for the player, coz honestly UFC will put its full effort to avoid the unwanted disease, or he's just jealous coz boxing can't get any reopening. lol.

The fight between Bob Arum and Dana White is not a secret and they hate each other, if UFC could bring the sport back that can assure full safety then what is wrong in that, i do not think Bob Arum will let go of the millions he could earn from the live gate and hence he wants to have a make belief that he really cares about the fighters. Not a good time to shove in the ass when someone is doing good while ensuring safety, respect to Dana White and hell with Bob Arum.

[Gyfts]

Technically the big three could resume, at least for the U.S. - Football (NFL), Basketball, and baseball.

Some of the governors have been in talks with local sports teams to resume professional sports leagues without having anyone in the stands. It makes for a bit of a weird viewing experience without hearing the background noise of the crowd, but at least you have something to watch. The UFC put on their event 1.5 weeks ago without a crowd and that event ended up being the all time highest wagered sporting event (in terms of number of bets placed) of all time.

People are ready to see sports come back and so are gamblers, apparently.

[tabas]

Basketball is also going the same as the other sports without any fan so I think it's viable to apply it to that sport. I guess most sports can do the same as long there will be fewer people working on the coverage and in the entire arena of that specific sport.

Although there are no audience that can watch the game, there are still risk of getting the virus from a player to player contact with the different team that's why as soon as possible, they should monitor first the health of the players and prioritize it so that they career will not be affected. Not only the players, but also all those staffs and personnel of the NBA that make this continuation possible.

Before the game, they can do rapid testing so that whoever tests negative can proceed and play with the team and opponent. And if tests positive, they will not be allowed to enter the premises and will go into quarantine.

On the news report, some of the practice facilities for basketball are about to reopen.

Practice with your team in a safe and isolated practice facilities are good so that they maintain the skills and condition of their players when it comes to playing the sports. They should always prioritize safety and security of the players so that they don't need to go out because basketball is really a physical sports.

This is like playing the actual recorded match, they are just playing with the opponent.

Guys look at this news about audience related thing.
A South Korean soccer team issued a grovelling apology after accidentally using sex dolls to replace fans at its empty stadium
Coronavirus football: FC Seoul apologises for 'sex dolls' in stands

[LTU_btc]

I think we should accept fact that most of sports will be played without spectators in upcoming few months at least (though in my country, football league returns with limited number of spectators and social distancing between them.) Probably almost every sport can return soon if virus situation isn't very bad in that country. They just need to take all precautions - measure athletes temperature, make tests if they can, reduce number of contacts between players, staff and etc when it's not neccessary.
Individual sports is safest - tennis, motorsport, athletics, golf, darts and etc. While team sports and boxing, MMA, wrestling is less safe because of big number of contacts between athletes. But as we see from UFC and Bundesliga, there is no issues to continue it. It would be just stupid to wait until virus will gone or magical vaccine will be invented. People now return to their jobs and sports shouldn't be exception.
And I just want to tell few words about swimming. From first look it seems safe because there is distance between swimmers and pool is full of chlorine, which disinfect water. But I want to say that swimmers share one warmup pool and there is many athletes in it at one time without keeping distance. And they sharing dressing room, showers, what isn't very safe.

[Findingnemo]

Tennis and Badminton can be perfect game to play even in this covid 19 season because it is a name where player can maintain social distancing for sure and also absence of audience may not have  much effect on the supposed results.

tennis and badminton is a game that really keeps the distance between players but the ball they hold can be a medium of transmission of the covid19 virus, players must really use personal protective equipment such as masks or gloves when playing

actually I really want to watch a sports match, I'm bored with the reruns that continue to air

Oh Yeah, I forgot about the ball. Glove while playing with the ball is okay but how about the masks I feel its an awkward thing to wear while playing such games.

[Jating]

They resumed 2 weeks ago, but there are no spectators allowed during the fights, they will just broadcast it on television since social distancing is a MUST. Bob Arum said this is greediness from the chairman promoter of UFC. I don't know if this old man do really care for the player, coz honestly UFC will put its full effort to avoid the unwanted disease, or he's just jealous coz boxing can't get any reopening. lol.

The fight between Bob Arum and Dana White is not a secret and they hate each other, if UFC could bring the sport back that can assure full safety then what is wrong in that, i do not think Bob Arum will let go of the millions he could earn from the live gate and hence he wants to have a make belief that he really cares about the fighters. Not a good time to shove in the ass when someone is doing good while ensuring safety, respect to Dana White and hell with Bob Arum.

Bob Arum has plans already for boxing to return without the fans.

And those promoters are obviously trying to milk their respective sports regardless of the pandemic or not. Basically, all sports can still continue without fans, they can have PPV in place so that we can watch it live. This is what we call the new normal in sports and I'm sure every sports organisations are coming up with their idea to get around this crisis to continue, contact or contact-less or individual sports.

[eaLiTy]

I think we should accept fact that most of sports will be played without spectators in upcoming few months at least (though in my country, football league returns with limited number of spectators and social distancing between them.) Probably almost every sport can return soon if virus situation isn't very bad in that country. They just need to take all precautions - measure athletes temperature, make tests if they can, reduce number of contacts between players, staff and etc when it's not neccessary.

If the situation is better then sports along with other business must resume with proper precautions. Checking the temperature alone will not be a good idea as 80% of the patients are asymptomatic and hence all the players should be tested properly and if all the players are negative then we really do not need these restrictions between players.

It would be just stupid to wait until virus will gone or magical vaccine will be invented. People now return to their jobs and sports shouldn't be exception.

The magical vaccine cannot be created just like that and everything should resume in a systematic manner, social distancing and other norms should be maintained while in public.

[bisdak40]

Any sports can resume without spectator, its just that are players willing to participate to risk their lives?

Yup, I agree with any sports minus the fans/spectators. There is a lot of good news going around for boxing and basketball to resume their operation but they have to do it in an empty arena/venues. About risking their lives, I don't think that athletes like is at risk, even though they got the virus they often showed no signs of symptom just like the NBA players who got contaminated, they can survive. The spectators are the vulnerable ones so eliminating their presence on the stands this time is what the organizer should be doing. Players and trainers' test for COVID will not be so expensive as they will be testing only a few people.