Today’s Sports Schedule: Tuesday 17th March
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The pick of today’s sporting action
With the ever-increasingsafety measures throughout the world of sport to control the spread of the coronavirus,we’ve seen many of the biggest sports events already cancelled or postponed.
After April’s Grand National atAintree was officially cancelled, the Premier League suspended, the Six Nationspostponed and in golf, the US Masters suspended too, the sports community are helpingto prevent the spread of the virus.
There are still some sportsevents taking place as normal, or behind closed doors, across the globe. Welook at the best sports left on offer today…
Today will see the last horse racing meets in the UK until at least the end of April. The initial plan was to hold meets behind closed doors, but the British Horseracing Authority has now suspended racing entirely. There will still be International Racing, for the time being.
There’s action from four racemeets today. There are two meets from Ireland coming from Down Royaland Wexford, with action on English soil coming from Wetherby andTaunton.
Down Royal gets underway at13:50, with seven races. Wetherby also hosts seven races, with the firstgetting started at 14:00. Wexford racing begins at 14:05 with seven on thecard, before Taunton rounds things off with six races starting at 14:15.
There’s plenty of action fromacross the country at the greyhound tracks, with 11 meetings from the likes ofMonmore, Crayford, Hove and Nottingham.
The action gets started justafter 11:00 at Crayford and will run throughout the day with the last racegetting underway at 21:34 at Sheffield.
There’s one match from Turkey inthe Super Lig. Goztepe sit in eighth place ahead of kick-off, and theyhost Rizespor who sit in the relegation places in 16th.
Both sides come into the game inpoor form, with Goztepe picking up one win in five, with Rizespor winless inthat time. The game starts at 17:00 from the Gürsel Aksel Stadium.
With the NBA shutdown for theseason, our attention turns to the Turkish Basketball leagues where the actioncontinues. Second-place Anadolu Efes look to return to the top of the tableagainst strugglers Bursaspor. They’re odds-on at 1/25 to win tonight.
There’s action from the secondtier too, with four fixtures to look over. Fethiye Belediye take onMerkezefendi Belediyesi in what could be the pick of the bunch. The home sideare 13/20 favourites to win, with the travellers 11/10 to leave withthe win.
What else is on?
We’ve got some eSports to lookforward to as well. The ESL Pro League continues, with the world’s best playerscompeting against one another in Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
There’s Ice Hockey action toofrom the Russian and Belarussian leagues. If that doesn’t take your fancy,we’ve got Volleyball from the Russian Vyssaya Liga A or Turkish 1.Lig too.
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