Hosting international sporting events during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learnt and looking forward

Margo Mountjoy^{1

2}, B McCloskey^{2

3}, R Bahr^{2

4}, James H Hull⁵, Joanne Kemp⁶, Jane S Thornton⁷, Jon Patricios⁸

Affiliations

¹ Family Medicine, McMaster University Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada mountjm@mcmaster.ca.
² International Olympic Committee Games Group, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Chatam House, Senior Consulting Fellow Global Health Programme, London, UK.
⁴ Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH), Division of Surgery, UCL, London, UK.
⁶ Latrobe Sports Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
⁷ Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Wits Sport and Health (WiSH), School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg-Braamfontein, South Africa.

Editorial

Margo Mountjoy et al. Br J Sports Med. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;57(1):3-4.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-106096. Epub 2022 Aug 19.

Margo Mountjoy^{1

2}, B McCloskey^{2

3}, R Bahr^{2

4}, James H Hull⁵, Joanne Kemp⁶, Jane S Thornton⁷, Jon Patricios⁸

¹ Family Medicine, McMaster University Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada mountjm@mcmaster.ca.
² International Olympic Committee Games Group, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Chatam House, Senior Consulting Fellow Global Health Programme, London, UK.
⁴ Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH), Division of Surgery, UCL, London, UK.
⁶ Latrobe Sports Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
⁷ Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Wits Sport and Health (WiSH), School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg-Braamfontein, South Africa.

No abstract available

Keywords: Covid-19; infection; public health; respiratory system; sport.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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