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On January 11 earlier this year insidethegames.biz published its first story mentioning “coronavirus”. In this edition we look at the devasting domino effect COVID-19 has had as it spread throughout the world of sport.

IOC President Thomas Bach described the re-arranging of Tokyo 2020 as a “huge jigsaw puzzle and every piece has to fit”. Chief feature writer Mike Rowbottom explores this monumental challenge and asks, where do you start?

With an enormous number of events either cancelled or postponed, we look at the way sports have adjusted to support athletes and officials and assess how the crisis has caused a great strain on the mental health of athletes during this period of uncertainty.

The coronavirus pandemic caused a global shutdown of sport and sent the industry’s money counters into panic. Chief columnist David Owen has run the numbers and assesses the financial impact of COVID-19.

With the lack of competition during the pandemic chief senior reporter Liam Morgan looks at virtual events which have tried to satisfy the world’s appetite for sport.

Weightlifting has been described as the only sport with a problem bigger than the pandemic. But Brian Oliver finds out that there is hope, even in the bleakest situations, with a level playing field for all and a new start for weightlifting now the goal.

Tokyo 2020 has been postponed, the Games in the Japanese capital in 1940 never went ahead and Moscow 1980 was heavily boycotted, Philip Barker asks, does the Olympic Movement really have a 40-year curse?

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