If you were planning to go to the New York venue for show jumping’s Longines Global Champions Tour Sept. 24-26, better make other plans. The show, which debuted on Governor’s Island in 2019 and was cancelled due to Covid in 2020, is not running this year.
The League has made “the difficult decision not to stage the events in New York and Shanghai due to multiple ongoing restrictions and logistical complications related to Covid-19 and the Delta variant.”
Instead, the season finals will be held in Šamorín on the shores of the Danube, in Slovakia, before the November play-offs in Prague.
The Covid situation has made things difficult for indoor shows as well, where social distancing is a problem.. Both the Stuttgart fixture in Germany and the Maastricht show in Holland also have been cancelled.