Sport penalized, spaced, silenced and suffocated he comes out of this cursed year with the hope of rediscovering his identity in 2021. Identity also means stadiums and arenas that are filling up again. The health emergency we are experiencing has forced us to reschedule our daily lives, even from a sporting point of view. Finding sport again in 2021 will also mean recovering our normality.
The two major sporting events postponed in 2020 are the Olympic Games and the European Football Championship.
Everyone’s hope is that Tokyo 2021 will truly mark the rebirth of a new world that has left the pandemic behind. It is still early to know if there will be spectators in Japan from 23 July to 8 August, but IOC President Thomas Bach expressed cautious optimism just a few weeks ago.
The greatest athletes from around the world have taken a run. There will be no Russia, ousted for four years as a repeat offender on doping controls. A curiosity: for marketing reasons the name Tokyo 2020 will be kept – funny – as if nothing had happened.
As for the European Championship, UEFA has confirmed that it will be itinerant. There are 12 host cities. The debut match will also be next year Italy-Turkey, which will be staged on 11 June 2021 at the Olympic stadium. The tournament will begin and end with the final on 11 July in London. Roberto Mancini’s national team – unbeaten in the last 22 official matches – arrives at the appointment full of expectations and with motivated hopes of a good placement. Recall that the only European won by Italy dates back to the 1968 home edition.
In May there are the European swimming championships in Budapest, scheduled and skipped last year; in June the Golden Gala of athletics in Rome and – on the other side of the world – the America’s Cup, the equivalent for prestige of our European Championship (with the final phase in Colombia). The Tour de France is back, which Covid 19 had moved last year to autumn. Wimbledon is back, which last summer missed. In September there is the European Women’s Volleyball Championship which will be held in Serbia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria; but also the European cycling championship which will be held in Italy (8-12 September). Many events that – we hope – will help us recover the most intimate sense of sport: the sharing.
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