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Lightning Round: Sports around the world are slowly returning but with restrictions

After almost three months of life without sports, in some countries where the amount of dailyCOVID-19 cases started falling, many sports associations have resumed their tournaments. Yesterday, English soccer’s Premier League returned exactly 100 days after the shutdown. The German’s Bundesliga restarted even before, in the middle of May.

However, strict rules still apply to those games. In England, just 300 people are allowed to enter the stadium and only 110 of them will be permitted pitchside.

As we all know, the NHL has also revealed their plans to return for the 2020 Playoffs. The rules for Phase 3 and 4 are still not clear but we can be pretty sure that there will also be some restrictions on the amount of people allowed into facilities and some changes to another aspects of the game.