{"id":48776,"date":"2020-02-13T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=48776"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:11:14","slug":"sports-stars-in-cardiff-send-money-to-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/sports-stars-in-cardiff-send-money-to-wuhan","title":{"rendered":"Sports stars in Cardiff send money to Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Snooker players competing at an international event in Cardiff have raised thousands of pounds to help victims of the coronavirus in China.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/1-4-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Motorpoint Arena is full of audience. Credit: Yiwei.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Snooker players in this year\u2019s Welsh Open Snooker 2020 competition are have raised thousands of pounds to support victims of the coronavirus in China.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers of event that start on 10 February are donating \u00a31000 every time a player scores a break of over 100 points and so far they have raised over \u00a342,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the tournament\u2019s star players from China Ding Junhui believes that this is giving competitors and added incentive to rack up big scores.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to WST (World Snooker Tour) and all the players who contributed, this donation could help a lot and I\u2019d like to do everything I can to help.\u201d He had donated about 11,000 pounds personally to help the people who stuck in Wuhan. He said he is glad that the organization concerned about China, and the \u201cCome on Wuhan\u201d showed on the LED screen is quite incentive.<\/p>\n<p>As the coronavirus impacts widely in China, there are 59,904 people diagnosed with the disease and 1,368 died so far. Now it has spread to the Europe and 9 cases are diagnosed in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/3-3-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The slogan in the Motorpoint Arena shows the attitude of players.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though there is <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/coronavirus-sparks-racism-towards-chinese-living-in-britain\">racism towards Chinese<\/a> in Wales, but they cannot represent the whole Western society holding a stereotype. \u201cIt\u2019s a very good idea! I think the whole world should help,\u201d said snooker fan Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cWelsh people, everyone feels sorry to hear the tragedy. Players also want to achieve the goal to make the donation, and for future events,\u201d Most snooker fans greet this decision and are expecting more century breaks than last year (81).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WST Chairman Barry Hearn and WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association) Chairman Jason Ferguson posted on WST official account and said: \u201cOur hearts go out to everyone in China affected by the coronavirus, particularly the many friends, colleagues and partners we have there. Through many years of staging tournaments in China we have grown to love the country and forged many successful relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Coronavirus has become a global epidemic, some myths about prevention of the disease need to be clarified. Protect yourself\u00a0 wisely!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/WechatIMG205.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49501\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/WechatIMG205.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49501\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/advice-for-public\/myth-busters\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/advice-for-public\/myth-busters<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snooker players competing at the Welsh Open raise thousands of pounds to help victims of the coronavirus in China. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":49309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[120,146],"coauthors":[635],"class_list":["post-48776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city","category-sport-health","tag-charities","tag-covid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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