British and Irish Lions tour managing director Ben Calveley has stood firm that there were no plans to take the tour elsewhere. Covid outbreaks in both the Lions and Springbok camps caused doubt this week regarding the sustainability of the tour in SA. The Lions face the Sharks in a rearranged second tour game this Saturday at Loftus following the postponement of the Bulls fixture. However, the Lions tour chief, Calveley, would not be drawn into musing about whether the tour should be hurriedly moved to the UK, where Wimbledon tennis and the football Euros are experiencing near-capacity crowd attendances. "Wednesday morning, we had one member of the [Lions] management team test Covid positive," the Lions tour chief explained.

Source: News 24 July 09, 2021 08:37 UTC