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Trotz Corona soll auch 2020 eine - wenn auch verspätete - Tour de France stattfinden.
The Olympic Games in Tokyo and a European Football Championship: The sports year 2020 was supposed to be huge. But the coronavirus is putting a damper on the organizers and athletes. In the 2020 sports calendar, ISPO.com gives an overview of which events are scheduled to take place - and which had to be postponed.

Sports Business
Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in January 2020.
In January, the death of Kobe Bryant and eight other people, including his daughter Gianna, in a helicopter crash shook the sports world. In August, the month of his birthday, the Los Angeles Lakers, Nike and Bryant's former hometown posthumously honor the "Black Mamba".

Sports Business
The top earner in the Forbes Ranking 2020: Naomi Osaka.
Forbes has published a list of the top earning female athletes in 2020. The top 10 are dominated by no less than nine tennis players. For the first time in years, Serena Williams is not the top athlete.

Sports Business
It could hardly be any tighter: In the women's triathlon at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Swiss athlete Nicola Spirig (above) wins gold ahead of Lisa Norden from Shevd.
In sport, often only the blink of an eye decides between victory and defeat. ISPO.com shows the tightest and most spectacular races from the world of sports in pictures.

Retail
The Nike House of Innovation in Paris from the inside.
Nike has opened its first House of Innovation in Europe in Paris. In the newest of three flagship stores worldwide, the US sporting goods giant is presenting its vision of sports shopping - including a digitally networked shopping experience.

Olympia
The Olympic rings in front of the new National Stadium in Tokyo - one of the sports venues of the Olympic Games.
On 24 July 2020 the Olympic Games in Tokyo would have started as planned. But Corona thwarted the sports spectacle. What does this mean for the athletes and the event in general? ISPO.com answers the most important questions.