of the 2020 season due to be held in april and may in qatar china stockholm naples and rabat the world athletics indoor championships nanjing march 1315 were postponed they will be held in the same city from march 1921 2021 the london paris and barcelona marathons were postponedaustralian rules the australian football leagues attempt to forge on with the season despite the virus outbreak lasted one round before it was shut down on march 22badminton the badminton world federation bwf cancelled the last five tournaments in the qualification period for the olympics the indonesia open june 1621 was among a host of events that have been cancelled while tournaments over the next three months were also suspended in australia thailand and russia the bwf is seeking clarification from danish authorities on how the ban on large gatherings will affect their ability to stage the thomas and uber cup finals in augustbaseball the final qualification tournament in taiwan for the olympics was put back from april to june 1721 while the march 2226 qualification event in arizona was postponed japans professional league postponed the start of the seasonbasketball the womens national basketball association postponed the start of its 2020 regular season originally scheduled to run from may 15sept 20 the international basketball federation postponed the mens olympic qualifiers european championship and the americas championship by a yearboxing anthony joshuas world heavyweight title defence against bulgarian kubrat pulev at tottenham hotspurs stadium on june 20 was postponedcanoeing all events originally scheduled for may including the paracanoe world championships canoe sprint olympic qualifiers and the icf canoe sprint world cup have been cancelled preolympic canoe slalom training camps in tokyo in may june and july have all been cancelled the opening two icf canoe slalom world cups set for june in italy and france have been postponedcricket the indian premier league originally suspended until april 15 has been postponed indefinitely the last two games of australias threematch oneday international series against new zealand in sydney and hobart were cancelled while the limitedovers tours were postponed the boards of india and south africa agreed to reschedule a threematch odi series to a later date englands twomatch test series in sri lanka scheduled to start on march 19 was postponed australias proposed test tour of bangladesh in june has been postponed and both boards will work together to find new dates to reschedule the seriescycling the tour de france that was due to be held from june 27july 19 has been postponed to aug 29sept 20 the final two stages of the uae tour were cancelled after two italian participants tested positive the parisnice cycling race ended a day early after the eighth stage into nice was cancelled the giro ditalia the parisroubaix liegebastogneliege and the tour de yorkshire race were postponed all cycling races up to the end of april have already been cancelled and riders in france and spain where many are based were told they cannot train outsidegolf the masters pga