TORTONA. It has overwhelmed Olimpia Milano, has hit Naples, Cremona, Trento in the last few hours and now it has also infiltrated the Bertram home. The wave of Covid cases in Italian basketball, largely due to the impact of the Omicron variant, did not spare even the formation of Marco Ramondino, who yesterday suspended all training sessions scheduled for the week due to the positivity of an element in the team team to a rapid antigen test. There is reserve on the identity of the person involved and, above all, on whether it is a player or a member of the staff.
What is known is that he is in good health (net of some symptoms) and, above all, that he and all the others are awaiting the outcome of the molecular swabs carried out last morning. A result that should arrive today around lunchtime and that could determine the fate of the match scheduled in Santo Stefano against Reggio Emilia, not yet postponed but certainly at risk like many other matches scheduled at the turn of the Christmas holidays (on the day of championship on the horizon the big match between Olimpia Milano and Virtus Bologna has already been missed).
The gravity of the situation that is emerging throughout the LBA brings to mind regulations and protocols that it was hoped could be left behind permanently. In particular, Tortona and the other teams with positives on their roster will be able to take the field regularly (except for postponements imposed by authorities in charge such as health companies, as in the case of Milan placed in fiduciary isolation by the local Ats) if they can field at least 8 elements to report.
Below this threshold, the official displacement of the game in question will be arranged, a decision whose adoption may be requested by the targeted club in case the head coach and the first assistant cannot simultaneously lead the team.