CNN News:疫情之下 各国纷纷恢复体育赛事

Yesterday's show started with weather. Today's show starts with sports. Fans want to see them. Teams want to play them. Venues want to profit from them but health officials say crowds and the threat of coronavirus don't mix. So countries around the world are looking for ways to say game on without contributing to the spread of the disease. It's a different picture everywhere you look.
The Summer Olympic Games in Japan, as we've told you about, had been postponed until next year. Major soccer events in South America have been cancelled. Spring marathons in France and Spain were postponed. But baseball season is in partial swing, anyway, in places like South Korea, though the fans have to watch all the action from home.
And in Japan with the nationwide state of emergency lifted, sports teams are looking to practice again. The Reuters News Agency reports that the Nippon Pro Baseball league will play ball on July 19th and soccer may kick off not long after that.

Without fans in the stands, the environment for players would be a lot quieter but there may be an app for that. At least one company has a program that would allow fans watching from home to tap, cheer, boo or chant buttons from their phones. And the corresponding sounds would be played over loud speakers in the stadium.
It's one of several attempts to recreate a crowded atmosphere in a place where there are no crowds, though not all the efforts have worked out. In the United States, NASCAR events have started their engines and charity golf matches have teed off.