Corona is also an annoying opponent in basketball: the virus currently has play in Austria’s highest league, the BSL, under control. The evening before yesterday, the Gmundner Basket Swans were able to play their game away against the Traiskirchen Lions and after some cramp and hard fight they won 76:69 (38:42). But the home game against the table runner-up SKN St. Pölten had to be canceled and postponed for the time being due to corona cases in the ranks of Lower Austrians, as Swans CFO Harald Stelzer reports.
“There is no new date yet because we have to wait and see how the situation at St. Pölten develops,” says Stelzer. “It is even possible that the game will be carried out next weekend, because next Wednesday the still outstanding Cup quarter-finals St. Pölten against Vienna would have been held, and we would have met the winner in the semi-finals at the weekend. But after Vienna six corona cases and St. Pölten has three, the cup is called off for next week. ” Accordingly, there will be no cup semifinals in a week. Seen in this way, there is a free championship game date for the duel between the swans and St. Pölten, provided that the sick players with the Lower Austrians have recovered. “At the end of November we agreed on the regulation: If three or more players from a team fail due to corona, the match will be canceled,” said Stelzer, “because it is then no longer of any sporting value.” In the championship, supplementary games are not that big a problem due to the broader schedule of appointments, “but in the cup it is now getting pretty tight”.
As a consequence of tomorrow’s cancellation, the topic in Gmunden is “vaccinating instead of playing”. Stelzer explains: “We have some actors who have not yet had the third bite of the corona vaccination, because afterwards you need three days to recover that have not been given before. And we will make up for these booster vaccinations this weekend. Then those affected are safe for once, at least in terms of the course of the disease. “
Source: Nachrichten
