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The Minister of Sport, Ernesto Lucena, made public at a press conference the plan that the Government has to reactivate the practice of sport in the coming weeks.
According to this plan, depending on the epidemiological peak of the coronavirus in Colombia, sports activities will be resumed, after May 25, starting with those with a low risk (especially those practiced outdoors, from individually and with the possibility of practicing social distancing) up to the highest risk ones (which are contact sports such as soccer and basketball).
“The Ministry of Sport had been asked to present protocols with each of the Federations. That is what has culminated today and that is why, under medical parameters we have determined low, medium and high risk sports and now with the Ministry of Health we are going to see when, after May 25, we will resume activities ”, Minister Lucena explained.
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Low-risk sports include tennis, golf, athletics, archery, boating, sky, individual cycling, open water swimming, free weights, triathlon, and skating, while high-risk sports include soccer, basketball, and volleyball.
Lucena explained that in the case of cycling, it will start first with the elite athletes and from there it will go down to the amateur athletes, taking into account the ages of the athletes and the coordination that is made with the mayors and governors.
Regarding football, the Minister of Sport pointed out that, in addition to having a high risk of contagion, the same protocols defined with the Dimayor establish that there must be a period of at least 20 or 25 days to make the necessary adjustments to comply with the protocols, before starting individual trainings.
First, he said, this phase of individual training would be done, then collective and only after that, you could think about restarting the league. The proposal that the Government is studying is not to do it in a single venue, as it has been proposed, since this would generate a very great risk of contagion for the selected city, but there would be at least four venues, where the teams would concentrate to play a kind of regional conference.
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