It is about a year now that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been dominating our private and professional lives across the world causing changes in "game rules" in all situations of daily life. We all had to experience and adjust to things like social distancing, wearing a facemask, strict hygiene precautions, lockdown, and so on. All such measures—as annoying as we may perceive them to be—had to be implemented to save peoples` lives. But they also massively influenced the way we live, socialize, work, . . . and play and watch sports. In his International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance editorial, "You`ll never walk alone," Jos de Koning already envisaged some of the challenges the virus would not only require us to rise to, but also the opportunities the crisis could bring us.
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