Former Chelsea striker Salomon Kalou has been suspended from training and “game operations” with immediate effect by Hertha Berlin.

The 34-year-old Ivorian posted a video on social media where he appeared to not take the club’s coronavirus prevention guidelines seriously at the training centre.

In the video he fist-bumped and clapped hands with team mates, as well as barging in on another player's coronavirus test.

In a statement on their website, Hertha condemned the video and said that it showed that the 'regular notices about hygiene and social distancing rules need to be more intensive'.

The NFL has cancelled the four games scheduled to take place in London later this year.

Two fixtures involving the Jacksonville Jaguars were scheduled for Wembley, with two more matches due to be played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

They will now be held in the US after organisers decided it was impossible to arrange games in a different continent because of coronavirus.

They were scheduled for autumn 2020, although no firm dates had been set.

It will be the first time an NFL regular season game has not been played in London since 2007.

The governing body of France's top two football leagues will take out a state-guaranteed loan to pay clubs the money they would have received from television broadcasts had the season not been abandoned because of coronavirus.

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) ended the 2019-20 season on Thursday, with Paris St-Germain crowned Ligue 1 champions.

"At a meeting on May 4, the LFP's general assembly adopted a resolution allowing the LFP to contract a state-guaranteed loan from its banking establishment," the LFP said in a statement.

"Thanks to this loan, the LFP will be able to pay Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs all of the sums still to be collected for audiovisual rights for the 2019/2020 season."

Amiens and Toulouse were relegated from Ligue 1 and the former has started a petition calling for a reversal of the decision.

Clubs in the top two German divisions have returned 10 positive results from 1,724 coronavirus tests, says the German football league.

Clubs have been training in groups, with the tests taken before a planned return to training as teams.

Measures including "the isolation of the affected person" have been taken, said the DFL.

Top-flight side Cologne have had no further Covid-19 infections after three people tested positive last week.

The trio are "symptom-free" but remain in quarantine for 14 days, said the club.

A leading Australia sports manufacturer has developed a wax applicator to allow cricket balls to be shined without sweat or saliva.

Concerns have been raised over using bodily fluids to polish the ball during the coronavirus pandemic.

Under cricket's laws, players cannot apply artificial substances to the ball, but umpires could oversee the process if changes are required.

"It may not be something we need to make forever," Kookaburra said.

The product has yet to be tested in match conditions and can be used on both red and white balls.

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BBC Sport

Wolves have become the latest Premier League club to call its players back for training.

BBC Sport understands manager Nuno Espirito Santo and his players will report for testing later this week before starting individual training programmes next Monday.

Social distancing will continue to be enforced.

It is understood the testing will be along the lines of normal tests that are carried out at the start of pre-season training, in addition to coronavirus testing.

Wolves are sixth in the Premier League, five points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, and are level with Olympiakos after the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie, which was the last game they played on 12 March.

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German club Cologne have had no further Covid-19 infections after three people tested positive last week and training in groups continued as normal.

The trio are "symptom free" but remain in quarantine for 14 days and "no retesting is possible", said the club.

The Bundesliga is set to become the first major football league in Europe to return to competition.

Officials suggested a resumption on 9 May but government delayed the decision and a restart may now be 16 or 23 May.

The club said in a statement: "On Sunday, FC Koln had the entire team, as well as the coaching and backroom staff, tested for Covid-19. All tests from the independent laboratory were negative.

"On Monday morning, Markus Gisdol's team will continue to train in groups. Training is not open to the public.

"The medical concept from the DFL (German FA) sees the regular testing as a prerequisite for the possible continuation of the league.

"Only players who have been tested negatively twice in succession are allowed to train and play."

Former Bournemouth and West Ham manager Harry Redknapp says Premier League teams will have nothing to play for if the season is completed without relegation.

A growing number of Premier League clubs are open to playing the remaining fixtures at neutral venues but with the threat of relegation removed.

"You need the players to want to play," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"How many players have got the appetite to come back now and finish the season?

"If you’re in the bottom six in any league you’re quite happy to call it off.

"If there’s no relegation, what are we playing for? We may as well play two games, let Liverpool win their two games and the title then call it off.

"If we’re going to play the rest of the season there’s got to be relegation.

"As much as we all want to see the season finish. We want to see football on the TV, it would be a big lift to everyone in the country but it’s got to be safe to do it."

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The Women's Tour has been cancelled for 2020 and will be rearranged for June 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The stage race, which has been held in Britain every year since 2014, was due to take place from 8-13 June and was initially postponed in March.

Organisers SweetSpot have now decided not to seek a new date this year.

Cycling's governing body the UCI will release a revised race calendar for this season on Tuesday.

More on this story here.

Football agent Gary Williams is working on a big idea to finish the Premier League - completing the season in Australia.

He approximates 1500-2000 people would travel, about 75 per team. They would be checked for coronavirus before boarding direct flights from London to Perth and all those travelling would have to isolate in hotels on arrival.

"I rang various Premier League clubs to see what they thought of the idea," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I got a very positive return. Once I got the positive return from the clubs we spoke to I spoke to a federal senator over here and the minister for sport to see if it would be viable.

"They thought it would be viable. The federal health minister has gone on radio today and said if all health restrictions are attended to then he’ll give his support behind it.

"There’s less and less restrictions every day over here. There have been no new cases for five days and there’s only 19 active cases in the state."

Ligue 1 club Amiens has launched a petition after they were relegated from the French top flight before the season could be completed.

Paris St-Germain were awarded the title on Thursday and Amiens and Toulouse were relegated after it was announced the season could not resume because of the coronavirus pandemic.

An Amiens statement said: "After the decision to relegate Amiens to league two after only 28 out of 38 games, Amiens is launching a petition to demand justice for this very consequential decision which goes against sporting fair play.

"Amiens demands the Football League to look again at its position and make the fairest choice: a Ligue 1 with 22 clubs for the 2020-21 season."

Tour of Britain director Mick Bennett says he would be "totally staggered" if the Tour de France goes ahead this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The postponed Tour de France is now due to start on 29 August, but there are doubts over that date after the French government extended restrictions on mass gatherings tuntil the beginning of September.

Bennett remains optimistic the Tour of Britain, scheduled for September 6-13, can go ahead even if it overlaps with the Tour de France.

"I would be totally staggered if the Tour de France goes ahead," he said.

"Staggered, but in a positive way if it happens. It's three weeks long and a global event, so much more so than the Tour of Britain, in terms of the logistics, number of people on the race and the travel involved with people coming from across the world and areas with different levels of restrictions."

Cycling's governing body the UCI will release a revised race calendar for this season on Tuesday.

Belgian clubs have postponed a vote on whether to abandon the rest of their season for a third time.

The decision was originally scheduled for 15 April, before it was moved to 24 April and then today.

However, on Sunday, they decided to push back the meeting again to 15 May.

The league said that clubs, who are mostly in favour of ending the season, are awaiting advice from Belgium's National Security Council before making a final decision.

Nick Hope
BBC Olympic sports reporter

The next edition of the Fina World Aquatics Championships will now take place from 13-29 May 2022 following the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The World Championships in the Japanese city of Fukuoka were due to occur between 16 July to 1 August 2021, but have been moved to avoid a clash with the Olympics, which will not take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021.

Last month World Athletics also announced that their next World Championships will move from 2021 to 2022.

It means athletes in both sports face a potentially packed schedule for 2022, which in addition to their respective world championships will also include the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and European Championships.

Dan Roan
BBC Sports editor

Football Association chairman Greg Clarke has said it is hard to see fans returning to matches "any time soon".

If the Premier League and Football League resume then those matches will be played behind closed doors.

The Premier League are also preparing for the possibility of playing the 2020-21 season without fans.

"The reality is that we just don't know how things are going to pan out," Clarke wrote in a letter to the FA governing council.

"But with social distancing in place for some time to come we do face substantial changes to the whole football ecosystem.

"For example it's hard to foresee crowds of fans - who are the lifeblood of the game - returning to matches any time soon."

Read more here.

Joe Wilson
BBC News sports correspondent

Racing could return to action within a week of being given the go-ahead to resume, according to the British Horseracing Authority's boss.

But Nick Rust says the sport, suspended since 17 March, does not expect special treatment in the coronavirus crisis.

"We can be one of the first to go," Rust told BBC Sport.

"We don't want to make the case ahead of public opinion. We're saying we're ready when you're ready, when the public health advice is ready."

More on this story here.

Good morning and welcome to Monday.

Throughout the day, we will bring you updates on how the ongoing coronavirus crisis continues to affect the world of sport.