The new South African strain hits the sport: a World Cup is suspended and a tournament is canceled
The new and worrying South African strain, which could avoid the effect of vaccines, begins to hit the world of sport.And it is that the first cancellations have already been announced, which at the moment affect grass hockey and golf.
The Royal Spanish Hockey Federation has just published a statement in announcing the cancellation of the Junior Women's World Cup, which should be played in South Africa in December.
"After the news that emerged in this African country, where a new variant of the COVID-19 that generates many new uncertainties about its consequences, the highest body of the hockey has decided to make this difficult decision has been presented," says the statement.
"The FIH will continue to analyze the situation in the next dates to be able to make a decision as soon as possible about the organization of this World Cup," he adds.The 'redsticks' Juniors went to the tournament as current European champions.
The news has caught the step changed, because in fact a tournament of the new DP World Tour is being disputed, the circuit previously known as European Tour, in South African lands.
From the British disruption to Spanish tranquility
At the moment, 16 players, British and Irish, have abandoned the Joburg Open, which is celebrated in Randpark (Johannesburg), after knowing the restrictions that Great Britain has imposed on trips from that country.
A tournament, by the way, in which there are five Spanish golfers who are staying in Liza for now.Marca was able to talk to Ángel Hidalgo, one of them, and said he "was not worried" about the situation.
But there is more, because the DP World Tour has just announced that the South African Open Championship, which is played next week (December 2 to 5) at the Gary Player Country Club of Sun City, will continue to move on but only as a Sunshine tournamentTour (the South African circuit).
Worse luck has run the third tournament planned in South Africa, Alfred Dunhill Championship, which was scheduled to be played at the Leopard Creek Country Club from December 9 to 12, since it has been canceled by the restrictions on the trips that are being imposed.
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