Reading The COVID Fine Print: The Undoing Of The Australian Open
Monday, 18 January 2021, 2:56 pm The decision to go ahead with the Australian Open, the first of the grand slams of the tennis calendar, was always going to be fraught with problems. Players journeying from designated “hot spots” of novel coronavirus outbreaks; large entourages of individuals taking up places on chartered flights even as Australians struggle to get seats to return home; and the issue of what training facilities would greet players on arrival, were all ingredients for potential cockups. Fifteen chartered planes are involved in the project, transporting more than 1,000 pla...
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