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Samuel Eto'o has donated relief packages to his home nation of Cameroon , with items such as food, soaps, sanitisers and protective equipment handed out in the country's economic capital of Douala. Didier Drogba, another African icon, joined Eto'o in roundly lambasting French professors for suggesting their continent should be used as a testing ground for a vaccine due to developing nations having little protection to begin with.

The former Ivory Coast international also donated the soon-to-be-completed Laurent Pokou hospital , built by his Drogba Foundation, to his home nation's government as a facility to screen for the disease.

Such charitable moves prompted some to ask Adebayor what he would be doing with the wealth he has accumulated across his long career, but the former Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham striker says that he is his own man and won't be swayed by the actions or opinions of others.

The Olympic Games has been postponed until on March 24 - becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and they have chosen to postpone for 12 months. The decision also means the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be subject to a one-year delay. Despite the delay, the name of the delayed Games will still be Tokyo , the city's governor Yuriko Koike revealed.

A joint statement from the IOC and Tokyo organising committee read: 'In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond but not later than summer , to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community. There was plenty of scepticism whether the Olympics would pull through and continue as scheduled while events linked to the games were called off.

The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 - just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed by one year due to the coronavirus.

Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced the decision by the Greek Olympic Committee to halt the torch relay on Greek soil on just the second day of its scheduled eight-day journey.

It is the only the third time that a relay to Athens for the summer Games has not been completed. The Olympic flame will still be handed over to the Tokyo organising committee at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on Thursday March 19, but without fans present. Athletes were told to keep training but many struggled considering the government lock-down measures put in place.

The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organisers have stayed on message since the viral outbreak in China three months ago spread across Asia and then the globe: The games will open as scheduled on July Tokyo organisers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on March The World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, has been postponed due to concerns over the danger of the coronavirus and its ability to spread.

North Korea cancelled the Pyongyang Marathon scheduled for April after imposing a border lockdown due to the level of outbreak in South Korea, where the Seoul Marathon is cancelled in a bid to protect runners.

The Paris half-marathon is cancelled and the French government also decided to ban all public gatherings of more than people, before ordering people to stay at home from March 15 for at least 15 days. The race involving some 44, competitors was scheduled for Sunday March 1. Organisers said the race will be postponed to a date yet to be determined. The London Marathon, which had been scheduled to take place on April 26, has been postponed until October 4.

Over 40, runners were due to take part. The Barcelona marathon scheduled for March 15 has been postponed until October. Olympic boxing qualifiers to be staged in Wuhan were cancelled by the International Olympic Committee, but went ahead in Amman from March The Japanese boxing commission cancelled all fight cards scheduled for March on government advice to suspend all pending sporting fixtures. They will not be rescheduled. The British Boxing Board of Control announced on Tuesday March 17 that all boxing events under their jurisdiction for March will be postponed due to the coronavirus.

That decision has lead to the heavyweight clash between Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce being postponed. That fight, which had been penciled in for April 11, has been rescheduled for July 11 at the O2 Arena.

Anthony Yarde, who was due to fight Lyndon Arthur on the undercard of the all-British clash, announced on March 29 that his father had died as a result of contracting the coronavirus.

He revealed in an Instagram post that he had no underlying health issues and urged everyone to stay at home. The European Olympic boxing qualification tournament in London has been suspended. It was due to secure qualification for Tokyo for 77 male and female boxers, with taking part. Matchroom Boxing chief Eddie Hearn has said Anthony Joshua's heavyweight title defence against Kubrat Pulev, which is scheduled for June 20, could be rearranged for July.

All Matchroom promoted fights in March and April have been postponed. Canelo Alvarez vs Billy Joe Saunders, earmarked for May in Las Vegas, was postponed before even being announced, however the Mexican is reportedly still planning to make the bout happen in June.

England's tour of Sri Lanka was postponed on March 13, with the England and Wales Cricket Board citing 'completely unprecedented times'. The decision was confirmed while Joe Root's side were in the field at Colombo's P Sara Oval, contesting a warm-up game for a two-Test series. On March 18, the West Indies offered to host England's upcoming home Tests against them in the Caribbean instead of in the UK - should the coronavirus outbreak not have improved by then.

England are due to face the Windies in a a three-Test series, which is due to start at the Oval on June 4 but could be delayed until September. If playing the series in England proves unworkable, CWI have offered to step in for this series, and also for England's three Tests against Pakistan , due to start on July Although there are Covid cases in the Caribbean, its impact there has been limited so far.

The start of the Indian Premier League season has also been delayed until April The campaign had been set to start on March The IPL franchises are also ready to quarantine their foreign players for a period of 14 days, if travel restrictions are lifted to allow them to arrive.

On March 13, India's ongoing one-day international series against South Africa was postponed, while Australia's one-day internationals against New Zealand will be played behind closed doors. The games were scheduled to be played in Florida in April.

Cycling's Giro d'Italia has been called off, with the race scheduled to start in Hungary in May. The final two stages of the UAE Tour were cancelled after two members of staff on the race were suspected of having the disease. Danish cyclist Michael Morkov was tested for coronavirus after being put in isolation. The Tour de France is under threat of cancellation, with the scheduled start in Nice taking place in just over three months, on June With British and French governments anticipating that the pandemic will last until the summer, race organizers are studying alternative scheduling.

The Paris-Roubaix cycling race, another major event on the French sports calendar, was postponed due to the pandemic, while the April 5 Tour of Flanders, only previously cancelled during World War I, was also postponed in a further sign that Le Tour is under grave threat.

The postponement provides a chance for European club competitions to be completed. The decisions to suspend follows players and staff becoming affected by the virus, or individuals self-isolating as a precaution after reporting symptoms consistent with Covid The Premier League has moved to cancel games following the global outbreak of coronavius.

The Premier League clash between Manchester City and Arsenal, scheduled for March 11, had already been postponed as a 'precautionary measure' after Olympiacos and Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis tested positive for coronavirus weeks after watching his Greek team play at the Emirates Stadium.

UEFA hope to conclude the competitions in the summer but no dates are yet set. Birmingham City become the first Championship side to see players take temporary 50 per cent wage cuts to ease financial pressure. Leeds United soon followed in a bid to keep paying all of their non-football staff. All Chinese domestic fixtures at all levels were postponed and the season pushed back, the first football to be affected by the outbreak in the country of its origin.

However, reports suggest that the league could resume on April 18 as China gets to grip with the virus. The start of the Korean K-League season is postponed. Japan's J-League postponed all domestic games until the middle of March, but further delays are inevitable.

Ludogorets players were taking no chances after the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Italy, the country worst hit by the virus outside China, suffered a spate of cancellations before the government put the population on lockdown. All sport, including Serie A games, were suspended until at least April 3 to contain the virus.

In France, it was announced on Friday 13 March that there will be no top-flight football in France for the immediate future after their governing body postponed all matches. LaLiga is also postponed until the end of March at least. Adebayor departed for a season-long loan to Real Madrid Emmanuel Adebayor was largely restricted to the bench at Real Madrid.

However, he did manage to make 22 appearances for Los Blancos, while also netting eight goals. In the game against Almeria in LaLiga, he scored his first hat-trick for the club. Adebayor spent four seasons at Tottenham Hotspur. He was signed on a permanent deal by Spurs after his first season with them , in which he scored the most goals among all the Spurs players.

He again emerged as the club's top scorer in season. Adebayor was however released by Tottenham through mutual consent after four seasons at the North London club. He then went on to join Crystal Palace on a six-month deal. The player did not enjoy a great time at Crystal Palace and scored just once in a span of six months.

On the expiry of his term, due to Palace's unwillingness to extend his stay, he joined Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir in , only to leave it a season later.