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We believe that those sports who want to try and go first, they do try and set the very best practices, we were very impressed by the comments of Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer who was saying that, yes this is a leadership example, we as players have to step up to the mark. And, when it comes to health and safety, the leagues and the governing bodies need to do the same. – Brendan Schwab	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The players are making it very clear that they don't want to have a high level of testing if that is going to place the public health effort in jeopardy. – Brendan Schwab	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Come on, that's a joke?. – Sophia Floersch	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's four scenarios and we've modelled everything, we've modelled the times we have to make decisions, dates we have to make decisions, who it impacts, how it's going to impact them. – Executive Tiley	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Worst-case scenario is no AO, our best-case scenario at this point is having an AO with players that we can get in here with quarantining techniques and Australian-only fans. – Tennis Australia Chief Executive Tiley	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Theyve said their piece to each other, theyve both visited at the ownership level, at management level, at the coaches level, at the players level with each other. – Dennis Lindsey	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Just like the Tour de France, the French Open is the quintessence of professional sports with fans. The Roland Garros stadiums have many seats to fill, having it be played behind closed doors would be the worst solution but we would do it if the survival of those sports was at stake. – Roxana Maracineanu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Many people are begging me to keep the Tour even behind closed doors, i hope it will take place but I am not sure. We do not know what the epidemic will be like after lockdown. – Roxana Maracineanu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We've been stuck at home long enough but I'm so excited to see the game, if not for the coronavirus, I would've been in the stadium with my wife and daughter. But for now, we're going to make a bet for beer after the game. – Kim Su-hong	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This no-audience period hopefully won't last long, but looking on the bright side, there could be more new baseball fans, also from abroad, watching the games from home like never before thanks to the technology. – Lee In-song	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Tyson has done enough great things for boxing. No more is needed. He is in the Hall of Fame and was a mighty puncher. – George Foreman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think a lot depends on the decision regarding the U.S. Open and the French Open, i think if that's positive then we will have a tournament or two before the Open in America. I think it was good of the Open to say 'listen, let's wait and see and not make a rushed decision'. – Grand Slam winner Boris Becker	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In my perfect world I would like to see much more combined events, men and women events over 10 days would be the ideal scenario moving forward. In my take we have too many tennis tournaments week in week out. – Grand Slam winner Boris Becker	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Someone's got to start somewhere or we're going to put ourselves in a hole we can't get out of, the economy and everything, if we stop for six months it's going to be hard to get going. – Harold Varner III	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'll do whatever it takes to get back to playing, i'll play everything until the new year. That's what I do. What am I going to do, sit at home? I've been sitting home the last six weeks. – Harold Varner III	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Board has agreed that a sensible cut to the annual budget is 75 million pounds, in a worst-case scenario, this would be necessary for the next four years to offset a 300 million pounds deficit. – Chairman Greg Clarke	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The reality is that we just don't know how things are going to pan out, but with social distancing in place for some time to come we do face substantial changes to the whole football ecosystem, for example it's hard to foresee crowds of fans, who are the lifeblood of the game, returning to matches any time soon. – Chairman Greg Clarke	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is a logical thing to explore between Australia and New Zealand because we are so closely connected in so many ways and we both have very low amount of transmission of COVID-19, i feel like opening borders to other countries is quite a way away. In fact, international borders would be one of the last things that get opened up completely. – Hussan Vally	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A 'Trans-Tasman travel bubble' would likely go a long way to alleviate the negative virus impact on New Zealand's tourism trade. – Deutsche Bank economist Philip Odonaghoe	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We believe there will need to be some sort of health screenings that come on top of customs, immigration and quarantine arrangements, there are technologies out there that can help effectively screen, not just putting thermometers on people's heads. – Simon Westaway	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The tests carried out over the past few days have served their purpose of providing additional security and thus protecting players from infection during team training or matches. – The DFL	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The message is clear we've got to cut costs, we started at $175 (million), that was a long battle to get it there, and with the current crisis we are now going to start at 145 and the discussion really is how much further down we can drive the next few years. – Ross Brawn said on Monday	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Initiatives we are bringing with these new regulations are to make the sport more economically viable in terms of the complexity, the cars we have now are so complex that the more you spend, the quicker you will go. We need to level off that slope and create a situation where money is not the only criteria for how competitive you'll be. – Ross Brawn said on Monday	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The budget cap initial objectives were a more competitive field and I think with the situation we have now the sustainability, the economic sustainability, of Formula One is a priority, that counts as much for the big teams as it does for the small teams. – Ross Brawn said on Monday	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

We believe that those sports who want to try and go first, they do try and set the very best practices, we were very impressed by the comments of Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer who was saying that, yes this is a leadership example, we as players have to step up to the mark. And, when it comes to health and safety, the leagues and the governing bodies need to do the same.

– Brendan Schwab

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The players are making it very clear that they don't want to have a high level of testing if that is going to place the public health effort in jeopardy.

– Brendan Schwab

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Come on, that's a joke?.

– Sophia Floersch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's four scenarios and we've modelled everything, we've modelled the times we have to make decisions, dates we have to make decisions, who it impacts, how it's going to impact them.

– Executive Tiley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Worst-case scenario is no AO, our best-case scenario at this point is having an AO with players that we can get in here with quarantining techniques and Australian-only fans.

– Tennis Australia Chief Executive Tiley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Theyve said their piece to each other, theyve both visited at the ownership level, at management level, at the coaches level, at the players level with each other.

– Dennis Lindsey

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Just like the Tour de France, the French Open is the quintessence of professional sports with fans. The Roland Garros stadiums have many seats to fill, having it be played behind closed doors would be the worst solution but we would do it if the survival of those sports was at stake.

– Roxana Maracineanu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Many people are begging me to keep the Tour even behind closed doors, i hope it will take place but I am not sure. We do not know what the epidemic will be like after lockdown.

– Roxana Maracineanu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We've been stuck at home long enough but I'm so excited to see the game, if not for the coronavirus, I would've been in the stadium with my wife and daughter. But for now, we're going to make a bet for beer after the game.

– Kim Su-hong

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This no-audience period hopefully won't last long, but looking on the bright side, there could be more new baseball fans, also from abroad, watching the games from home like never before thanks to the technology.

– Lee In-song

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Tyson has done enough great things for boxing. No more is needed. He is in the Hall of Fame and was a mighty puncher.

– George Foreman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think a lot depends on the decision regarding the U.S. Open and the French Open, i think if that's positive then we will have a tournament or two before the Open in America. I think it was good of the Open to say 'listen, let's wait and see and not make a rushed decision'.

– Grand Slam winner Boris Becker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In my perfect world I would like to see much more combined events, men and women events over 10 days would be the ideal scenario moving forward. In my take we have too many tennis tournaments week in week out.

– Grand Slam winner Boris Becker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Someone's got to start somewhere or we're going to put ourselves in a hole we can't get out of, the economy and everything, if we stop for six months it's going to be hard to get going.

– Harold Varner III

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'll do whatever it takes to get back to playing, i'll play everything until the new year. That's what I do. What am I going to do, sit at home? I've been sitting home the last six weeks.

– Harold Varner III

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Board has agreed that a sensible cut to the annual budget is 75 million pounds, in a worst-case scenario, this would be necessary for the next four years to offset a 300 million pounds deficit.

– Chairman Greg Clarke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The reality is that we just don't know how things are going to pan out, but with social distancing in place for some time to come we do face substantial changes to the whole football ecosystem, for example it's hard to foresee crowds of fans, who are the lifeblood of the game, returning to matches any time soon.

– Chairman Greg Clarke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is a logical thing to explore between Australia and New Zealand because we are so closely connected in so many ways and we both have very low amount of transmission of COVID-19, i feel like opening borders to other countries is quite a way away. In fact, international borders would be one of the last things that get opened up completely.

– Hussan Vally

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A 'Trans-Tasman travel bubble' would likely go a long way to alleviate the negative virus impact on New Zealand's tourism trade.

– Deutsche Bank economist Philip Odonaghoe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We believe there will need to be some sort of health screenings that come on top of customs, immigration and quarantine arrangements, there are technologies out there that can help effectively screen, not just putting thermometers on people's heads.

– Simon Westaway

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The tests carried out over the past few days have served their purpose of providing additional security and thus protecting players from infection during team training or matches.

– The DFL

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The message is clear we've got to cut costs, we started at $175 (million), that was a long battle to get it there, and with the current crisis we are now going to start at 145 and the discussion really is how much further down we can drive the next few years.

– Ross Brawn said on Monday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Initiatives we are bringing with these new regulations are to make the sport more economically viable in terms of the complexity, the cars we have now are so complex that the more you spend, the quicker you will go. We need to level off that slope and create a situation where money is not the only criteria for how competitive you'll be.

– Ross Brawn said on Monday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The budget cap initial objectives were a more competitive field and I think with the situation we have now the sustainability, the economic sustainability, of Formula One is a priority, that counts as much for the big teams as it does for the small teams.

– Ross Brawn said on Monday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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