Covid, new Dpcm, sport: here’s what goes on and what doesn’t

In the measures for the containment of Covid-19 all non-top activity is stopped: let’s see who plays and who will have to stop

Elisabetta Esposito – Valerio Piccioni

October 25
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During the night, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte signed the new Dpcm which contains more restrictive measures for the containment of the coronavirus. Sports also hit hard. Let’s see what changes and what can still be done.

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Stop gyms and swimming pools, ok to clubs

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The activities of gyms and swimming pools, swimming centers and wellness centers will be suspended. While public and private sports centers and clubs will remain open in compliance with the rules of social distancing and without gatherings. In practice, for example, the tennis courts.

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The ski slopes are open

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Skiing is saved: the lifts in the districts, open to athletes of national and international interest, can also be used by amateur skiers “only subject to the adoption of specific guidelines by the Regions and validated by the CTS”, to avoid gatherings as already seen yesterday in Cervinia.

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Yes to the activity in the parks

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Sports or motor activities continue to be allowed in parks with a safety distance of two meters for sports and one meter for the others.

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Top sports ahead behind closed doors: here’s how

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As for the activity of all top athletes, it remains permitted behind closed doors. In contact sports, however, the prohibitions are widening: the one for every activity, even training sessions, of an “amateur playful” nature is confirmed, but they are stopped – even for training (it is still necessary to understand if they can understand individually and in compliance with distancing) – all the activities of the provincial levels (as in the previous Dpcm) and above all regional levels. So let’s try to summarize the framework discipline by discipline: in football they play Serie A, B, C and D, but all the activity from Excellence down, in the women’s yes to Serie A and B; in calcium at 5 ahead of Serie A, A2 and B men and A and A2 women; in basket ok to the national championships of A, A2, B in the men (but the latter two had already postponed the start to November 22) and A1 and A2 women; in handball A1 and A2 male and female admitted (women had yet to start); for the volleyball the men’s and women’s Serie A and Serie B championships and a part of the youth tournaments remain.

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Stop the thousand in the stadiums

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The previous Dpcm had left a threshold relating to the maximum presence of the public of a thousand spectators outdoors and 200 indoors, however giving the possibility to the Regions, providing a percentage of 15% of attendance compared to the capacity of the plant, to propose to the Ministry of Health of exemptions. This topic completely disappears in this Dpcm in which only the expression “are allowed behind closed doors” is mentioned. This essentially produces the cancellation of the norm of one thousand spectators in Serie A and in general of all appearances, even the smallest, in sports facilities.

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Valente: “Against the closure of gyms”

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The former undersecretary Simone Valente (M5S) spoke on the sports closures: “I continue to be perplexed by the approach chosen by the government in contrasting the second wave of infections from Covid. I am opposed to the indiscriminate closure of gyms and swimming pools, as well as to that of theaters and cinemas, because to date the choice has not yet been supported by the data relating to the infections that would have been produced in these areas “.

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