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Britain's Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty is making a splash in his own back garden after having a temporary training pool craned in.

The 25-year-old, world record holder in 50 and 100m breaststroke, has been loaned a 5.7m long SwimFit 'flume' pool to use during the coronavirus lockdown.

He had been limited to working out in his garage and doing a daily run as he works towards next year's postponed Tokyo Games.

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Former Manchester United, Newcastle and England striker Andrew Cole spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast's Chris Latchem about the "daily grind" of self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic, adding that "no day comes easy".

Cole, 48, is one of over a million people more vulnerable to the virus as he had a kidney transplant in 2017.

Leading sports lawyer Nick De Marco told BBC Sport any decision made will need to be a "compromise" but "it's inevitable there will be litigation arising from it".

"It's impossible to reach a decision that will please everybody. The legal issues and of course the health issues are the main determining factors at the moment," added De Marco.

He said there are "four big legal issues" which would involve broadcasters, sponsors, clubs and individual players.

Those could include disputes over value for money if the season is not completed, as well as disagreements over who is awarded the title, who is relegated and who is promoted.

"There's also the fundamental health problem. What if players don't feel that it's safe to return?" he added. De Marco also said there was a "very big problem" regarding player contracts.

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Finishing the season behind closed doors is the "best case scenario" for football, says former Wales manager Mark Hughes.

The former Manchester United striker also said there is "no way" supporters will be able to watch the conclusion of the current season.

But Hughes, 56, believes the remaining games should be played so promotion and relegation can be decided fairly.

"It's going to be very very difficult," Hughes told BBC Radio Wales on Friday.

"Everybody is trying to make it happen, but the best outcome for sport is that players return to playing competitive games."

Frank Keogh
BBC Sport reporter

The final two weekends in May have been earmarked for several big races if British horse racing is given the go-ahead to resume.

Racing has been suspended since 17 March because of the coronavirus crisis and it was announced on Friday that key contests, including the Chester Vase, are set to be cancelled.

But some would be saved, with 16 Group races pencilled in to take place behind closed doors before the end of the month in a 'best-case scenario'.

The Craven Stakes would be on 23 or 24 May, with the Dante a week later, along with the Lockinge Stakes.

It is hoped the season's first two Classics - the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas - will be held on the first weekend in June after being postponed from their original dates at Newmarket this weekend.

Planners have warned some races may need to be staged at alternative venues to their traditional racecourses.

The Premier Legaue and the EFL have revealed that all Academy football has been cancelled.

A statement said: "This decision, which is independent of any discussions regarding the resumption of the 2019/20 campaign for first-team football, has been taken to give Academy staff and their players an element of clarity at this challenging time.

"The curtailment will include all Under-9 to Under-16 games as well as the Under-18 and Under-23 competitions.The methodology for determining the final league standings and outcomes for the season will be decided at a future date."Additionally, it is intended that any fixtures for the 2020/21 Academy season will not commence any earlier than would usually be expected."

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Laura Scott
BBC Sport News Correspondent

At a shareholders' meeting today, club bosses were given an update on "Project Restart", including learning the number of grounds that are likely to be used.

They were informed that the only way for the season to be completed will be if there are no home and away matches.

A major factor in this decision is trying to reduce any chance of fans congregating by grounds, and the selected grounds will be largely based on a rating from the police and the Sports Grounds Safety Authority.

They were also presented with the draft medical protocol that has been put together by the Premier League doctors' group and the League's medical adviser, which estimates that around 40,000 coronavirus tests might be required.

All clubs will have to sign up to the protocol, which will be phased as the situation changes.

There was no discussion about voiding the season or any curtailment, with clubs reiterating their commitment to finishing the season if possible.

It is understood that overall the Project Restart plans were well-received by clubs, but elements that were challenged will be worked on.

The PFA and LMA will be tasked with carrying out a consultation of players and managers.

There will be a meeting of clubs following the Government's review of the lockdown restrictions next week, but this will not take place on Thursday.

Laura Scott
BBC Sport News Correspondent

Premier League clubs have been told that neutral venues will be the only way they will complete the season during a video conference on Friday.

"Up to 10 stadiums" would be used to resume the 2019-20 season.

The Premier League could also need up to 40,000 tests for players and staff if plans to finish the season behind closed doors are followed.

Premier League clubs have discussed "the first tentative moves forward" in plans to resume the 2019-20 season.

Clubs reiterated a commitment to resuming the season "when safe and appropriate to do so" during a video conference on Friday.

This followed a separate meeting, hosted by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, involving medical experts from several sports organisations, government and Public Health England, to "step up planning" towards sport's eventual return.

Experts from football, rugby union, cricket, racing and UK Sport were present.

Dowden introduced the meeting and said elite sport would return behind closed doors "when, and only when, it is safe to do so on the basis of expert medical advice".

BBC Sport understands that sports have accepted that the return to competition is going to be a "long, detailed process" and the discussions in Friday's conference were largely based on the resumption of training.

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France: Season ended. Paris St-Germain have been awarded the Ligue 1 title.

Netherlands: Season cancelled. No champions, relegation or promotion.

Italy: Serie A wants to complete its fixtures, but Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said on Wednesday it was "unlikely"

Spain: On Thursday, the Spanish government approved La Liga’s plans for clubs to test their players for Covid-19 before they return to training as the country's top flight targets a June resumption.

Germany: Bundesliga will need to wait another week to find out about a possible restart after the government on Thursday delayed any decision over a league resumption.

The Premier League said in a statement they are "considering the first tentative moves forward" and "will only return to training and playing with government guidance".

"No decisions were taken at today’s meeting and clubs exchanged views on the information provided regarding 'Project Restart,' the statement added.

"It was agreed that the PFA, LMA, players and managers are key to this process and will be further consulted.

"The clubs reconfirmed their commitment to finishing the 2019-20 season, maintaining integrity of the competition and welcomed the government’s support."

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Medical officials from a range of sport governing bodies met with representatives from Public Health England (PHE) on Friday to discuss the safe return of top-level action.

A Department of Culture, Media and Sport statement afterwards said the meeting was "to step up planning on what may need to be done so that athletes could return to training, when it is deemed safe to do so.

"This would be ahead of any return to competitive top-level sport which would only happen when medical experts advise that this can be done safely. Discussions with the sports bodies will continue on this."

The Rugby Football League CEO Ralph Rimmer has been speaking on Radio 5 Live about the state of the sport during the pandemic.

Rimmer was speaking after it was announced that the government has provided the RFL with a £16 million pound bailout to secure the short term future of the sport.

"We're not a wealthy sport - that has to be acknowledged I think, and I think the government has certainly done that. Lockdown certainly bites very hard our communities," Rimmer said.

"We don't have a string of wealthy ownership and therefore this puts us under considerable pressure. so we are very grateful for the support and we do deliver a great deal to those communities in return and it will help us reshape and re-emerge no doubt in our 125th year."

Rimmer added: "This is a tough time for us all and primarily public health comes first.

"We've recently lost members of our rugby league family and those clubs will be supported by this money. It will be used at the right place at the right time."

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Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

Formula 1 plans to create an isolated environment for competitors when it starts racing again in July.

Managing director Ross Brawn said they are working on a "kind of biosphere" in which teams and drivers would operate at races without spectators.

F1 aims to start the championship with consecutive races at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on 5 and 12 July.

"We're working our way through all the requirements to make sure we operate in a safe environment," Brawn said.

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Natalie Pirks
BBC Sport correspondent

Events have fallen like dominoes.Some, like the Olympics, have been postponed, while others, like Wimbledon, have been cancelled completely. Training schedules have been ripped up and staff furloughed. Players are taking wage cuts and broadcasters are warning of lost earnings in the hundreds of millions.

In future, social distancing will be a massive headache for sporting governing bodies. How can close contact physical sports, like rugby, continue? Even playing behind closed doors presents a myriad of problems.

An English Premier League football season without a champion was once unthinkable, but now the campaign hangs in the balance.

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Even if sport can return this year, the global recession likely to follow will surely affect business for years, especially in areas liketransfer fees, wages, broadcast deals and prize money.

For millions of fans, weekends are now very different. Moments of unbelievable effort and sporting talent often ripple through the nation, providing collective "did you see it?" experiences. The future of sport, without those moments and the fans to watch, looks very different indeed.

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Andy Murray won the Madrid Open for a third time without even leaving the comfort of his sofa.

With tennis suspended until at least mid-July, the Scot emerged triumphant in a contest of 16 leading ATP players who had all swapped their racquets for PlayStation 4 controllers.

David Goffin was Murray's victim in the final, with the world number 121 edging out the Belgian 7-6 (5) on the Tennis World Tour video game.

This from the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden as .Premier League clubs discuss plans for resuming the season in a conference call on Friday.

Laura Scott
BBC Sport News Correspondent

Eamonn Salmon, chief executive of the Football Medicine and Performance Association (FMPA), has spoken to BBC Sport about the range of opinion among doctors and physios at English football clubs regarding resumption plans.

"I guess the views of our members will be a kind of snapshot of society really. There are those who think it can be done, there are those that are doubtful and there are those that probably suggest it is an impossible task," he said.

"We saw from the chief medical officer of Fifa with his comments and sentiments that it pretty much was an almost impossible task to keep distancing with a contact sport. I think the views will be mixed. We have to wait, this is a waiting game all the time, it is such a changing landscape and fluctuating on a day to day basis."

Looking ahead to today's Premier League shareholders' meeting, when clubs will be given an update on the medical protocol that has been devised by the doctors' group and the Premier League's medical adviser, Salmon said: "This is just the start in some respects, whatever proposals are put there it is then open to debate and for comment and opinion to feed into that."

On the concerns being raised by some players and members of the medical community he said: "I think if there is a vast, vast majority [of FMPA members] that foresee a problem here and they were all to collectively say this can't be done then of course we would step up and voice our concern to the respective parties. I don't kind of envisage that."

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BBC Sport

British light-heavyweight Anthony Yarde says he will take any emotion out of boxing when he returns to the ring following the deaths of two family members with coronavirus.

Yarde, 28, lost his father and grandmother to the virusin the space of a week but said he is now "OK" in dealing with the grief.

"Its one of those things you have to get by," Yarde told BBC Radio 5 Live. "No-one expected it or is prepared to deal with it, so you just have to get past it."

Yarde said his grandmother was in hospital when her son - Yarde's father - died.

"The hardest thing was liaising with the hospital and whether they could tell my nan what had happened," Yarde said.

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