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Spain, Netherlands plan for fans at European Championship

( AP ) - Spain and the stage four games in Glasgow,
Netherlands are now and Ireland, which has four
committing to having fans fixtures in Dublin.
at the European Champi- The city with the most games
onship matches they are is London, which will stage
hosting in June. seven fixtures at Wembley
including the semifinals and
They are the latest countries final. Authorities hope the
to offer assurances to UEFA 90,000-capacity might even
over the return of crowds, be full by the end of the tour-
leaving Dublin as one of nament.
the 12 cities with the most
doubts about whether specta- In Scotland, no date has been
tors will be permitted during set for the return of fans but
the pandemic, and at risk of provisional proposals will
being cut from the hosting. be submitted to UEFA this
Bilbao is telling UEFA that it week about what is achiev-
will guarantee the 53,000-ca- able at Glasgow’s Hampden
pacity San Mamés can have Park in June.
up to a quarter of seats filled, Russia has already confirmed
Spanish authorities said that St. Petersburg’s 65,000-
Wednesday. seat stadium will be filled to at
least 50% capacity for its four
A similar number of fans games. Denmark is planning
should be at games in Am- on up to 12,000 fans being al-
sterdam, with the Dutch of fans in the Amsterdam where we can allow even were allowed into games. lowed into the four matches
football federation saying au- stadium will have to be re- more spectators to attend.” The city of Munich was less at the 38,000-capacity Parken
thorities want to allow at least evaluated. The rescheduled European committal in its statement on Stadium. A similar number
12,000 spectators who have “We look forward to welcom- Championship is due to open Tuesday, saying it is “conceiv- could be attending games in
presented a negative CO- ing 12,000 spectators to the on June 11 in Rome after Ita- able and desirable that spec- Romania under government
VID-19 test result into the Johan Cruyff Arena, but we ly said Tuesday that it is ready tators can be in the stadium” plans for the 55,000-capacity
Johan Cruyff Arena. are aware that the coronavi- to let fans back into stadiums for its four games. national stadium in Bucha-
Both Bilbao and Amster- rus is unpredictable and there by then. There is a risk that cities rest to be at least a quarter
dam have three games in the are no guarantees,” said Gijs Fans have been banned from could be cut from the host- filled.
group stage and a round of de Jong, a tournament direc- matches in Italy for the ma- ing if they can’t say if crowds Baku, Azerbaijan and Buda-
16 match. Authorities in the tor in Amsterdam. “How- jority of the past year, apart will be allowed by June. pest, Hungary are also due to
Netherlands warn that if the ever, we remain hopeful that, from a brief period shortly Those guarantees are yet to be part of the hosting of the
coronavirus situation dete- come June, the situation will after the start of the season come from countries includ- tournament that has been re-
riorates, then the presence have improved to the point when up to 1,000 spectators ing Scotland, which is due to arranged from 2020.

Overall ski champion Vlhova parts ways with coach Magoni

( AP ) - Overall World Cup been tense following unflat-
champion Petra Vlhova tering remarks on Vlhova’s
will go into the Olympic style of skiing supposedly
season without the coach made by Magoni in an inter-
that helped her win ski- view with an Italian newspa-
ing’s biggest prize this per two weeks ago.
year. “It was a long and rocky
road towards what we all so
The Slovakian skier said she desperately wanted. Even-
was parting ways with Livio tually, the dream came true
Magoni after five years. and I hold a Big globe in my
“One door is closing, and a hands,” said Vlhova, who
thousand more are opening didn’t mention a succes-
and we just have to choose sor for Magoni. “Amazing 5
those that are right for us. years with you Livio, during
For this time, our doors are which I learned a lot. I am
different,” Vlhova said late immensely grateful for your
Tuesday in a statement on her time, your infinite energy,
social media channels. perfectionism and the hope
No reason for the break was you have constantly placed overall title in 2013, when developing into one of Mi- season title in slalom for the
mentioned, but media re- in me.” Magoni previously the Slovenian skier set a still kaela Shiffrin’s main rivals in first time in 2020 by edging
ported their relationship had coached Tina Maze to the unbroken record for most the three-time overall cham- Shiffrin, who was taking a
World Cup points in a single pion’s strongest discipline. break from racing.
season: 2,414. Under the Italian coach, Vl- Like he had done with Maze
The Italian called his cooper- hova quickly improved in gi- before, Magoni gradually
ation with Vlhova “5 beauti- ant slalom as well. turned Vlhova into an all-
ful and incredible years.” Vlhova entered five events around competitor who reg-
“Sorry for all my mistakes in but failed to win a medal ularly scored points in super-
these 5 years, but I guarantee at the 2018 Pyeongchang G and downhill as well.
you that I have put and given Olympics. She became the Last season, Vlhova started in
everything I had for this ex- first world champion from all 31 women’s World Cup
perience,” he added. Slovakia by winning the GS races and beat former cham-
The pair started working title at the worlds in Sweden pion Lara Gut-Behrami of
together in 2016, when the the following year. Switzerland to the overall
slalom specialist was already Vlhova won the World Cup title by 160 points.