Sports and the corona epidemic

[Translate to en:] Wackerhage in seinem Labor. Image: A. Heddergott / TUM - For sports, the current corona epidemic is the biggest challenge of the last 100 years. Henning Wackerhage, Professor of Sports Biology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has therefore analyzed the relationships between sports and the Corona pandemic together with colleagues from the universities of Gießen, Glasgow, Hildesheim, Mainz and Padua as well as the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. In this interview he explains selected results of the study. What role have sporting events played in the spread of the corona pandemic? There is evidence that Italy's patient 1 has met many people and, before he himself began to show symptoms, had already infected a large number of people in Bergamo. They, too, have probably already passed the virus on, and then came the big event, the first Champions League match between Atalanta Bergamo and FC Valencia. At that time the people of Bergamo thought that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was just some virus in China and so no reason for concern.