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By The Associated Press 
 The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
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 Sixteen players and officials from Bulgarian soccer club Cherno More have tested positive for coronavirus.
 The club from the Black Sea town of Varna says 12 players are among the positive cases and adds “all players who tested positive are quarantined and we have taken the necessary precautions.”
 Cherno More played a league game against Tsarsko Selo in Sofia on Thursday. The laboratory that conducted pre-match tests admitted the following day that it had not announced that one of the players on the team from Sofia had tested positive.
 Cherno More says the club is still ready to play on Tuesday against Arda Kardzhali despite the positive tests. The quarantined players would be replaced by members of the team’s junior squad.
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 The Austrian soccer league has started an investigation into the coronavirus testing procedures of all 16 second-division teams after three players from one club tested positive over the weekend.
 The league says each club must provide receipts and test results to prove that all players have been tested on a weekly basis since play resumed on June 5 after a 12-week break.
 The investigation comes after last-place Kapfenberger SV apparently breached the anti-coronavirus rules by failing to structurally test its players.
 The league opened proceedings against Kapfenberg on Monday.
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 Two more badminton tournaments have been canceled in the revamped calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic.
 The China Masters in Lingshui was canceled after already being moved from February to May and then to August.
 It was to be the first comeback event but that’s now expected to be the Chinese Taipei Open in Taipei from Sept. 1-6.
 The Dutch Open in Almere in October was also put off for this year.
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