No Laws or Regulations anywhere cover the current problems, provoked by Ebola, of staging major sports events, when risks threaten the health of sportsmen and spectators alike !
There are two basic but major risks :
1) Financial, because Sponsors will withdraw their support, and
2) Health, because participating sportsmen, their "entourage" and the spectators which follow, could bring a health epidemic with them, to any country where the event is staged !
Everyone is closely following what may be decided about the staging in Morocco of the African Nations Football Cup Finals in January/February 2015.
Is this really a question for FIFA or any Football Organisation to decide ? Should this not be the responsibility of the National Health Ministry of the Country where the event is planned to be staged ?
Or is it not WHO - World Health Organisation, which should lead the way and impose a decision ?
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