Hindsight 2020: The year all the stadium lights went out


Malaysia mixed-doubles pair Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying at a training session. Art Chen/ The Star

One by one, the lights started going out of sports from March. Since then, it was mostly sorrow and tears for athletes and sports enthusiasts around the world.

It was supposed to have been a great year, with the Olympic Games expected to hog the limelight in Tokyo and Euro 2020 to spark across 12 European cities, promising football fans some high-octane action.

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