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Can the sports industry survive the coronavirus shutdown?

There is optimism in some quarters that the lockdown measures will be a short-term blip to business. But many sports executives believe there will be lasting disruption.

Murad Ahmed, Mark Di Stefano and Anna Nicolaou

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London/New York | Martin Slumbers usually works from a wood-panelled room overlooking the 18th green of the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland.

The chief executive of the R & A, golf’s governing body outside the US and Mexico, says his office was closed two weeks ago. The same goes for the ancient links, the first time this has happened since the Second World War.

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