The Sport Thread

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With a lot of people being vaccinated against Covid over the past while; would there still be a need for Channel 4 to broadcast any part their F1 race highlights programmes from F1 factories based in the UK this year if new variants of Covid are still cropping up throughout the rest of the world.

Weren't they back to mainly hosting from the tracks last year within the F1 bubble? It was 2020 they were hosting from UK locations.

The IOC have also issued (by their standards) a very strong worded statement instructing sporting organisations to remove events from Russia and Belarus which should embolden any wary organisations like the FIA to do so.

Bit hypocritical really considering they couldn't possibly move the Winter Olympics and repeatedly stated sport has nothing to do with politics prior and during Beijing 2022.

Finances. The IOC contracts for all games mean they not able to cancel without paying heavy compensation to the host city while also refunding broadcasting and sponsorship money.

Be interesting to see what happens now Poland has refused to play Russia. What I can see happening is FIFA does rightly attempt to expel Russia but they go to CAS and win an appeal on some technicality (Possibly linked to lack of an UN motion condemning Russia)


For the Woman’s Euro’s Portugal lost to Russia in a play off so should be the first choice replacement.