EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- A day after Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were honored with a a poignant "celebration of life" at the Staples Center, LeBron James said that nearly a month after the helicopter crash, his nerves are still raw.

"Emotionally a wreck, like everyone else," James said after shootaround Tuesday morning in preparation for a game against the New Orleans Pelicans. "Another challenging day for all of us. Like you've been hearing me talk about the last couple times you guys asked me about the whole situation, it's just been hard to kind of talk about it. Trying not to go back. It's just tough."

It was unclear if James was also in attendance at the ceremony. His agent, Rich Paul, told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith that it was a very emotional day for James and that he spent the memorial "in his own space." Despite prompting, Paul did not clarify whether or not James was in the building.

When James was asked directly about his whereabouts on Tuesday, he turned his focus towards Bryant's widow, Vanessa, and her words of remembrance for her late family members.

"I respect your question for sure, but it's very emotional. A very emotional day. A very tough day for myself, for my family, for everyone involved," James said. "One thing I can come out of it saying is how strong and how bold and how powerful Vanessa is. To stand up there the way she did, to give that speech the way she gave that speech. I commend her.

"My heart his with their family still. With his three daughters that are still here. With his wife. With his mom and dad and his sisters. It was just a very difficult day. Obviously a celebration but it was a difficult day for all of us. So, I appreciate it. If we could move onto tonight, that would be great."

In the aftermath of the Bryant tragedy, James told ESPN it was the "toughest week of my life." James struck a similar chord when asked about the ceremony following the Lakers' win over the Boston Celtics on Sunday.

"I don't want to keep going back on it," James said at the time. "I think it's unfair and it's unjust to his family, as they're trying to move on. We're all trying to move on -- but also know that he's with us. His jersey is sitting in my locker right now. But, it just puts me in a difficult mindset when I continue to harp on it. ....I'm trying to (stop) if you can respect that."

Still, James allowed for a couple follow up questions on Tuesday for further thoughts on the ceremony.

He said that hearing Michael Jordan elaborate on the special dynamic between him and Bryant did not surprise him.

"It's well documented how their relationship was," James said. "Mike is always looked at as like big brother to Kobe from the beginning, we've all seen that from the first time that they played in Chicago when Kobe was a young bol'. So, we all know that."

And he was asked if the celebration could provide some closure for a Lakers team that has 27 regular season games remaining until the franchise makes its highly-anticipated return to the postseason for the first time in six years.

"It's never a closure. It's never going to be a closure," James said. "I mean, we continue to live on his legacy and continue to have our hearts heavy with both sadness and with happiness for his family that are still here. So, it's not a closure. But it was a celebration which was well received from not only the Laker faithful, not only the family here, but everybody around the world."

PASCAL SIAKAM RELISHES the work. The process of getting better drives the Toronto Raptors forward in a way that sets him apart.

"He was always the first one in the gym," former teammate DeMar DeRozan said. "He always came back to the gym at night. He worked on everything he does now."

Year after year Siakam has put in specific work to take a weakness of his game and turn it into a strength, which has allowed the 25-year-old forward to blossom into an All-Star.

"I love the fact that I can not be able to do something and I can put in a lot of hours doing it and I can become good at it," Siakam said. "It feels good. It feels so great, and I enjoy that. So I want that feeling.

"I love the feeling that I get on the court and I take two dribbles and I turn around and make the shot and the defender is like, 'F--- no,' and I'm making it. It feels so good because he can't make that shot, but he doesn't know how many hours you put in trying to make that shot."

All that work led to Siakam winning the NBA's Most Improved Player award a season ago. This season, as an encore, he's averaging career highs in points, rebounds and assists. Whether he wins the award again or not, Siakam is not done chasing the feeling of improvement.

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THAT FEELING BEGAN to materialize for Siakam at New Mexico State, where he spent two years playing for coach Marvin Menzies. Though he was recruited as a 6-foot-9 power forward, Siakam wanted to handle the ball.

"People would make fun of me because they were acting like I can't dribble," Siakam said. "But, in my head, I was always a guard ... I was like, 'Yo, I'm tall, but I don't care. I'm not no big man.'"

Menzies and Siakam made an agreement: In games, Siakam would do whatever was necessary to help his team win. But on practice days, when the team broke into individual workouts, Siakam could focus on developing the skills he so badly wanted to showcase. And it became clear during those workouts what Siakam could be capable of.

"He was a kid who you said, 'Holy smokes, if he ever figures this out, he's going to be pretty good,'" Menzies said with a laugh.

Siakam's devotion to the work comes in part from getting a late start in the sport, having played basketball for less than a decade. That put him behind on the developmental curve, but it also helped him.

"He didn't have any bad habits," said Rico Hines, a longtime player development coach who now works as an assistant with the Sacramento Kings. "He was like a blank canvas."

Hines first met Siakam during the pre-draft process, when multiple teams asked the then-21-year-old whether he'd be willing to go to Europe for a year or two as a "draft-and-stash" prospect.

"He asked me after the first day I worked him out, 'Do you think I should go back to school?'" Hines recalled with a laugh.

"I said, 'Well, you'd be a fool if you do.' And the rest is history."

AS A ROOKIE, Siakam played in 55 games -- including 38 starts -- for a 51-win Raptors team. Still, his role was limited. He played 15 minutes per game and averaged fewer than four shots. When the postseason rolled around, he played just 10 minutes in two appearances.

And yet, he managed to make an impression on his teammates.

"He ran the floor every time, and he played so hard," Toronto point guard Kyle Lowry said. "That was the biggest thing that we loved about Pascal. He didn't care about nothing but being on the floor and helping our team."

While the Raptors were beating the Bucks in the first round of the 2017 playoffs, Siakam was in nearby Mississauga, Ontario, where he teamed up with current Raptors teammate Fred VanVleet to lead Toronto's G League affiliate, Raptors 905, to a championship. Siakam earned finals MVP honors after a postseason run that saw him average 18 points and 7.9 rebounds per game while shooting 50% from the field.

It was a performance that caught Toronto's attention, but his game still had a serious flaw: He was not a 3-point shooter.

Siakam attempted seven 3s as a rookie, making just one of them. He upped his frequency to 13 attempts in seven games in the G League playoffs but still made just one. During his second season, he started to let it fly, attempting 132 3s in 81 games, but his 22% clip was the worst that season of any NBA player who took at least 100 of them.

"We told him to slow down on 3s a little bit," Dwane Casey, who was Toronto's coach then, said with a laugh. "Don't not shoot it, but drive it if you have the opening.

"Which is a nice way of saying don't shoot it."

LESS THAN TWO weeks after being swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2018 playoffs, Siakam was in Los Angeles with Hines, beginning a grueling set of three-a-day workouts to tighten and shorten his shooting motion, making consistent repetition easier

"When a player gets tired, a lot of times they digress back to their old habits," Hines said. "I wanted to make him tired to see, basically, that he had the same form on his shots that we were doing in the beginning."

Siakam brought his new form back to Toronto, where the Raptors looked drastically different than they had months earlier. Not only had Nick Nurse replaced Casey as head coach, but the Raptors had also sent DeRozan to San Antonio in a package for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green. The new lineup featured a toss-up at starting power forward between Siakam and OG Anunoby, who'd started 62 games as a rookie and, as a more proven 3-point threat, was expected to win the job.

"It wasn't like I came in and was like, 'I'm going to be a starter,'" Siakam said. "That was never in my head. It was always about, like, 'I can make sure I come and I'm better and I can handle the ball and I can shoot and I can defend. And, if I can do those things, I will play.'

"I believed in those things and worked to do that, and I knew that if I could do that, there was no reason I should not be playing."

Siakam claimed the job when Anunoby's preseason was derailed by an injury and a death in the family. By season's end, he was helping lead the Raptors to an NBA title as a 36.9% 3-point shooter and the league's most improved player.

"The opportunity was there, but he was never, ever going to let that go from minute one," Nurse said. "He got the first start in the first preseason game, and it was over right there."

LEONARD'S DEPARTURE HAS given Siakam a chance to step up again. His usage rate is over 29%, placing him among the highest-usage players in the league. He has taken on a bigger playmaking role, an area where Lowry urges him to improve.

"Playmaking," Lowry said, when asked what Siakam needs to improve next. "Be a little bit better passer. That'll come over time. Running pick-and-rolls, making plays, diming people up."

Siakam agreed.

"The next thing I'm working on, for me, is getting more comfortable with the ball," he said. "That's something I'm always going to work on."

Nurse, once again, has given Siakam the room to grow into a bigger role by empowering him to make plays for himself and others -- and he is still asked to play the same large role defensively. When Toronto needs a key bucket, the ball is all but certainly going to wind up in Siakam's or Lowry's hands.

"The sky's the limit for him," Hines said. "We still don't want to put him in a box. The whole thing now is trying to win the MVP. That's what he wants to do."

For that to happen, and for the Raptors to be more than just a nice story this season, Siakam needs to take one more leap. Toronto was hunting for more scoring at the deadline, per league sources. The one thing opposing coaches, scouts and executives question when discussing the Raptors is whether they will be able to score enough to win in a tight playoff series.

It is also the thing that Siakam has had in mind since last season ended, knowing that he would need to improve as a scorer in these types of situations whether Leonard returned or not.

"You're not going to drive and [beat Joel] Embiid and Giannis [Antetokounmpo] at the rim all the time," he said of succeeding in the playoffs. "You have to be like, 'OK, they're gonna back up? Then, I'll shoot it.'"

No one saw this kind of success coming for Siakam when the Raptors made him the No. 27 pick four years ago. No one, that is, except Siakam.

"Not to sound arrogant or nothing, but it's like ... you see that coming," Siakam said of his quick ascension through the NBA ranks.

"It's the only reason I'm doing this. I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think it was possible."

Less than a week after the New York Yankees shut down starter Luis Severino due to forearm discomfort, the team announced Tuesday that the right-hander now needs Tommy John surgery.

"His plan is to have it done as soon as possible,'' Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday.

Severino was scratched from throwing his second bullpen session in camp last week and didn't take part in pitchers' fielding drills. After the workout, manager Aaron Boone said Severino had been dealing with forearm discomfort that started after Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros.

The Yankees will already be without pitcher James Paxton through at least April after the left-hander underwent a procedure to remove a cyst as well as a microscopic lumbar surgery.

Cashman said last week that Severino had two MRIs -- one in December and another in January -- and a CT scan after complaining of discomfort, and all tests had been negative. But the Yankees sent him for further testing. Cashman said Tuesday that a dye contrast MRI revealed the partial tear of the UCL.

In January, Severino was treated with anti-inflammatories and said he felt fine, Boone said. Testing revealed a "loose body" near his elbow, which the team believes is an incidental unrelated finding. Once Severino ramped up his throwing program this spring, he stayed away from his changeup.

Severino, who turned 26 on Thursday, didn't pitch in the majors last season until September after spending most of the season on the IL because of injuries to his right rotator cuff and lat muscle. He made three starts.

The two-time All-Star was coming off his best season in 2018 when he went 19-8 with a 3.39 ERA and 220 strikeouts in 191⅓ innings.

Severino signed a four-year, $40 million extension almost exactly a year ago, but he has thrown just 20⅓ innings since then.

ESPN's Marly Rivera and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The New York Yankees won the MLB offseason when they gave Gerrit Cole the toll rights to the Henry Hudson and brought him to the Bronx, instantly transforming a good rotation into a great one. But that analysis factored Luis Severino into the mix, and that changed with Tuesday's news that Severino will need Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.

The projections at FanGraphs ranked the Yankees with the best rotation in the majors, just ahead of the Nationals, Mets and Rays. Much of that is due to Cole's 6.8 projected WAR, best of any starter, but you also need quality depth to rank No. 1. Here's how that preseason forecast looks:

Cole: 214 IP, 6.8 WAR
Masahiro Tanaka: 180 IP, 2.8 WAR
Severino: 134 IP, 3.5 WAR
James Paxton: 129 IP, 3.1 WAR
J.A. Happ: 132 IP, 1.9 WAR
Domingo German: 85 IP, 1.2 WAR
Others: 85 IP, 1.2 WAR

Those projections are currently in a big state of flux, as the spate of injuries that struck down so many Yankees in 2019 already has hit Paxton and now Severino. Just before spring training, the Yankees announced that Paxton had surgery earlier in February to repair a disk in his lower back, with an estimated rehab time of three to four months. Now we have an update on Severino that he'll miss the season after forearm soreness surfaced while he was throwing last week.

This was always going to be the concern about this rotation. Paxton has never qualified for an ERA title, throwing a career-high 160⅓ innings with the Mariners in 2018. He made 29 starts last season for the Yankees, throwing 150⅔ innings while missing nearly four weeks in May with a sore knee. Severino missed almost all of 2019, making just five late-season starts, including two in the postseason, after a shoulder issue and then a lat strain. Don't forget that Tanaka has pitched since 2014 with a partially torn UCL. While Tanaka has averaged 29 starts the past five seasons, you never know when that ligament may blow out.

To complicate matters, German, who went 18-4 with a 4.03 ERA last year, is serving the rest of an 81-game suspension for domestic violence and won't be eligible to return until the team's 64th game, currently scheduled for June 5.

That means the Yankees may have to turn to that "others" list much earlier in the season than they would have liked. The good news is that list includes Jordan Montgomery, who is healthy after Tommy John surgery and looking to rediscover his rookie form of 2017, when he went 9-7 with a 3.88 ERA. The Yankees' other options include:

• Injury-prone Jonathan Loaisiga, who has struck out 70 in 56⅓ innings in his big league career but has never thrown more than 80 innings in a professional season.

• Hard-throwing prospect Deivi Garcia, who had a 4.28 ERA across three levels of the minors in 2019 but recorded 165 K's in 111⅓ innings.

• Michael King, who missed much of 2019 with a stress fracture in his back, but had a 1.79 ERA in the minors in 2018. He doesn't throw hard, but has carved up minor league hitters with an assortment of two-seamers, four-seamers and cut fastballs, plus a slider and changeup.

• Luis Cessa, the team's long reliever a year ago who has made 19 major league starts.

• Prospect Clarke Schmidt could be a consideration later in the season as well.

In other words, that's a lot more depth and better options than most teams have going this far down the depth chart. And most teams don't have a 300-strikeout pitcher headlining the group. Still, should the Yankees be worried about the rotation? Not yet, at least, especially if Paxton can return sometime in May.

No team makes it through an entire season with just five starters anyway. The Cardinals had the healthiest rotation in 2019, using just seven starters with their top five guys making 152 starts. The Mets, Reds and Cubs each used nine starters -- and it's worth noting all three of those teams missed the playoffs. There is no such thing as a five-man rotation anymore.

The Yankees won 103 games last year with a 4.51 rotation ERA -- not pretty, but good enough to rank sixth in the American League. That was without Cole, however, and with Severino making just three abbreviated starts. Given that some missed time for Paxton and Severino was already built into the projections above, the Yankees can survive for a time without them.

But let's consider a more damaging scenario and cut 50 more innings from the projected total for Paxton on top of all of Severino's innings, and give them to the "others" (officially, a mix of Montgomery, Loaisiga, Garcia and King). Paxton projects to 1.9 WAR over almost 80 innings. The "others" now project to 3.8 WAR in almost 270 innings. So we're talking about two wins. Maybe that group isn't that good. But even if they're just replacement-level, it's an estimated loss of three or four wins over 200 innings. Of course, that number starts getting bigger the more time Paxton misses on top of losing Severino for the season, and the worse their replacements may pitch.

As always, the impact of one or two players is often grossly overstated. The Yankees have the depth to overcome some injuries. They're still the heavy favorites in the AL East. Just stay healthy, Gerrit.

British number one Dan Evans fought back from one set down to beat Italian fourth seed Fabio Fognini in the Dubai Tennis Championships first round.

World number 37 Evans prevailed 3-6 6-4 7-5 in his first meeting with Fognini.

Unable to recover from 4-0 down in the first set, Evans rallied to win five of the final six games to take the second.

Both players lost serve twice in the third set before Evans eventually converted his sixth match point after two hours and 38 minutes.

Evans will now face Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the second round after the Frenchman also beat Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka 7-5 6-2 on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Evans, 29, was knocked out of the Rotterdam Open at the quarter-final stage after losing to defending champion Gael Monfils.

Romania's world number two Simona Halep beat Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in the final of the women's event in Dubai on Saturday to claim her 20th WTA title.

Ireland wing Beibhinn Parsons did not hesitate in withdrawing from the Six Nations to focus on her studies despite her impressive start to the tournament, says head coach Adam Griggs.

The 18-year-old scored eye-catching tries in the opening two rounds, but had made herself unavailable for the latter stages to study for exams.

Parsons made the decision in December and, unluckily for Griggs and Ireland, nothing would change her mind.

"She wasn't hesitant," Griggs said.

"I certainly wanted her to be. She's a very focused young individual.

"She was determined to do well in those first two weeks, box them off and then do well in her studies."

Parsons wants to study medicine at university so needs a good performance in her Leaving Cert - the Irish equivalent of A-levels - this year.

Griggs sat down with the player and her parents, and they decided it would be best for her to play in Ireland's first two home games before turning her attention away from rugby.

In that short time the teenager, who has seven international caps, made a name for herself in the tournament as she ran the length of the pitch to score in Ireland's opening win against Scotland before crossing again in the victory against Wales.

Griggs' side may have already improved on last year's performance - when they won just one game - but Ireland missed Parsons' attacking prowess on Sunday, failing to score in a 27-0 loss to England in Doncaster.

"With how well the first two weeks went for her and the potential she has, you wish you had her but she has other priorities and we're fully supportive of that," Griggs added.

Dow 'a great shout' for contract

Another player balancing education and international rugby is England wing and mechanical engineering student Abby Dow.

The 22-year-old is one of the tournament's top try-scorers on four alongside France's Laure Sansus and Cyrielle Banet, but is not one of the 28 England players on a full-time contract.

When asked if that would soon change, Red Roses head coach Simon Middleton joked she would "be a great shout" for a contract in the future given her recent form.

"Abby hasn't got a contract for specific reasons, it's nothing to do with her ability, it's very much about her education and how we manage that," he explained.

"Abby knows what the situation is and we've worked continually with her to support her through her degree and being full-time wouldn't have suited.

"She's been fantastic in terms of how she's committed herself. We've got an engineer on our hands as well as an extremely good rugby player, she's in red-hot form."

Ireland prop Cian Healy will miss the rest of the Six Nations because of a hip injury sustained in the weekend defeat by England.

It's a big blow for the Irish as they prepare for their final two games against Italy and leaders France.

Healy was forced off with the injury in the first half as Ireland missed out on the Triple Crown at Twickenham.

Ireland have not provided a time frame for a possible return of the experienced Leinster front row.

Leinster take on champions Saracens in a Champions Cup quarter-final in Dublin on 4 April.

Ireland are not back in Six Nations action until 7 March although the Aviva Stadium match with Italy is in doubt because of the coronavirus situation.

A number of players have been released back to their clubs - Will Connors, Max Deegan, Chris Farrell, David Kearney, Luke McGrath and Jack O'Donoghue have returned to their provinces for Pro14 games.

Ulster quartet Billy Burns, Stuart McCloskey, Jack McGrath and Tom O'Toole will attend the Ireland camp in Dublin this week after the Pro14 match at Benetton was postponed because of Coronavirus fears.

Ulster lock Iain Henderson is also included in the training squad after missing the England game because of family reasons.

Three rounds down, two to go.

The Six Nations silverware is at the centre of a three-way tug-of-war, with France having the tightest grip.

But, which player has taken the tournament by the scruff of the neck so far?

Here are your contenders. You can have your say with a vote at the bottom of the page:

George Ford (England)

England's fly-half did not make a single start in last year's Six Nations, but, now back in favour, he has been pulling the strings expertly as his team have grown into the tournament.

Key stat: Only Italy's Tommaso Allan has kicked for more territory than Ford, who has gained 1,171m with the boot in England's three matches.

Maro Itoje (England)

Itoje, still only 25, has maintained his usual stratospheric standards despite uncertainty over his club future in the wake of the Saracens salary cap scandal.

Key stat: Itoje is the only England forward to have played every minute of the tournament so far.

Gregory Alldritt (France)

Alldritt, 22, has taken on the mantle left behind by the retired Louis Picamoles, carrying hard and bringing a hard-edged physicality to France from number eight.

Key stat: Aldritt leads the tournament for carries with 44 and has made 95m more than any other forward.

Antoine Dupont (France)

The 23-year-old scrum-half has been in dazzling form for France, sniping round the fringes and providing silver-service ball to his backline.

Key stat: Dupont has made 148m with ball in hand, more than any other scrum-half in the tournament.

Charles Ollivon (France)

New skipper Ollivon's all-action, free-roaming game has been the perfect complement to Alldritt in France's back row.

Key stat: Ollivon has had more try involvements (three tries and three try assists) than any other player in this year's tournament.

Romain Ntamack (France)

Ntamack, the son of former France wing Emile, is a running threat as well as a shrewd distributor of the ball from 10, keeping defences on high alert.

Key stat: Ntamack has scored more points (39) than any other player in the tournament.

CJ Stander (Ireland)

Stander won successive man-of-the-match awards in the first two rounds as he rampaged in the loose and tied up ball at the breakdown.

Key stat: Stander is joint top of the turnover stats (five) and second to Alldritt in carries with 41.

Jake Polledri (Italy)

Polledri has fought against the tide as Italy have slipped to three successive defeats, driving forward to make yards with ball in hand and doing defensive dirty work by the spadeload.

Key stat: Polledri has made the second-highest number of tackles (54), is joint top of the turnover charts (five) and has made the sixth-highest number of carries (35).

Hamish Watson (Scotland)

Flanker Watson has been a permanent back-row presence for Scotland, sniffing around the breakdown, chopping down runners and rumbling forward on his own pinball runs.

Key stat: Watson is Scotland's leading tackler in the tournament with 48.

Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)

Jones made his first Six Nations appearance way back in 2007, but shows no sign of slowing down, inspiring his team-mates with his prodigious appetite for work.

Key stat: Jones leads Wales' tackle and turnover tallies after three games.

Six Nations organisers are "monitoring very closely" the coronavirus situation, with games under threat by the spread of the virus in Italy.

Seven people have died in Italy and 229 tested positive for the virus, while 11 towns in the north are in lockdown.

Italy's men and women's teams play in Ireland in two weeks before hosting England in the final round.

Scotland Women's match in Italy on Sunday was cancelled and is yet to be rearranged.

"Six Nations is monitoring this situation very closely and is in regular contact with the FIR (Italian Rugby Federation) and all other Unions and Federations as well as the relevant local authorities and health organisations," a statement from the organisers said.

An FIR spokesperson said that if government advice changes they would consider moving the women's team's next training camp which is scheduled to take place in Parma, just south of the at-risk Lombardy and Veneto regions.

"All measures adopted by the Italian government are due to expire on 1 March," an Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) spokesperson said.

"Until then, FIR will stick to those measures while keeping relevant stakeholders involved."

Two Pro14 matches scheduled for this weekend have been called off - Ospreys against Zebre in Parma and Ulster's trip to Treviso to face Benetton.

Ireland men are due to take on Italy at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Saturday 7 March, while the women's match is on the following day at nearby Donnybrook.

In the final round of Six Nations fixtures, Italy's men host England in Rome on Saturday 14 March and the women are at home to England in Padua on 15 March.

Ireland's health minister Simon Harris said that "big decisions" will have to be made in the interest of public safety, adding that he was thinking particularly of the Ireland-Italy rugby match.

According to a study by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 80% of those infected had suffered only mild symptoms with the sick and elderly most at risk of being affected more seriously.

A 'scary' experience in Milan

Journalist Jamie Lyall was in Legnano, to the north-west of Milan, to commentate on the Scotland Women game which was cancelled.

He describes the experience of being in Italy as towns were placed on lockdown as "scary".

"When we arrived in Milan there was no indication that anything was awry other than having a temperature check at the airport," he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly.

"I was sitting in my hotel room on Saturday night and coronavirus was trending in the local area. That's when I started to get worried. Several towns had been placed on lockdown and no-one was getting in or out.

"The Scottish Rugby Union got the players and staff out of there pronto. They flew out on Sunday as soon as they found out the game was off.

"In the end all the flights operated as normal. There was no real sense of panic at the airport. The cabin crew checking us in had masks and gloves on but we didn't have the same temperature checks that we had coming in."

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