IS THIS GOING TO BE THE LOOK OF 2021

How is 2021 going to be for our sport

I’m not very optimistic for the coming year, even if there will be a vaccine  against corona it will take a very long time before everyone will have it. But time is not the biggest worry, the virus is what viruses are doing, it makes mutations. The one we have seen until now are not more dangerous (like the English one that has now also come to Holland)  than the original, but more and more bad news is coming our way with the Corona new string, the Corona 501.V2 hitting young healthy people very hard. It is not in Europe yet and it may even be possible that it will not get to Holland at all because of all the travel restrictions. Vaccines developed at this moment may very well not work or work a lot less against the new mutations. I believe we will see that training will be possible again in the first months of 2021 but not the way we are used to, competition will not start up and tournaments will not be possible. I even do not believe we will see the Olympic games to be held in 2021, because traveling will stay very restricted. If the games will go on it will be a one with a lot of handicaps, players around the World have not been training on the normal level and have not been able to play tournaments for qualification. In Asia there has not been the same level of  lockdown as in Europe, you can also ask yourself if sportspeople from the USA are welcome if they have not recovered from the hard hidden waves of Corona. People have hope that it will be over soon but reality says that 2021 will most likely be the same as 2020. If this is going to be the case it can have a great impact on the way  we will organise the sport, federations will run out of business there will be no more need for them, top sport will have to be done on a personal level as national training will stop to exist. Badminton will get the change it has been waiting for so many years, it will get a lot more professional like Tennis and golf. The National team will only get together when needed for

team games. It will hurd a lot in 2021 but the sport will get out of it a lot better and the organisation will be healthy again because it has to reinvent itself again and find a new way to justify the need for a federation. Until now we have not seen the great inspiring actions from federations, and by the time they will start to think about it it will be too late others will have taken over to empathy space and big holes they have left. For me it is a dream come true.