2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
UK MP Fiona Bruce tabled a motion signed by seven other parlamentarians, stating: "That this House expresses concern on reports of the shelling of Shushi cathedral in Nagono-Karabakh by the Azerbaijan military; condemns this attack on a civilian site; further condemns the military targeting of a cultural heritage site, an act which constitutes a war crime under international law; expresses great relief that the children in the cathedral were not physically harmed, although they suffered great stress; sends thoughts and prayers to the journalists who were hospitalised by later shelling and all those who have suffered due to the conflict; and urges the Government to condemn those attacks and to make representations on them to the Government of Azerbaijan."


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
German MP Albert Weiler wrote in his Facebook post: "I condemn this crime in the strongest terms - the destruction of places of worship is barbarism and a war crime!"


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Response, International
The Special Rapporteur of OHCHR in the field of cultural rights addressed Azerbaijan in a letter issued on February 2, 2021, mentioning the attack on the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, “believed to have been intentionally targeted”, and expressing concern “regarding reports of indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, resulting in damage or destruction of schools, churches and other cultural heritage sites”, requesting to provide information on any investigations and “indicate if those responsible will be held accountable in accordance with international law… indicate which measures will be taken to assess and afford emergency stabilization for this site, as well as to fully consult with relevant parties, including the Armenian Apostolic Church, about such efforts and about how to undertake reconstruction of this site so as to protect cultural rights”.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Aftermath
Azerbaijanis forces seized control of Shusha on 7 November, after a three-day long battle over the city. On 10 November, a peace agreement was reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan with Russia's mediation.


2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling, Gallery
Armenian wedding in damaged Holy Savior Cathedral on 24 October 2020


2020 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament
The 2020 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament was a List A cricket competition that took place in Kandahar, Afghanistan between 10 and 22 October 2020. It was the fourth edition of the competition to be played with List A status, following the announcements by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February and May 2017. Mis Ainak Region were the defending champions.


2020 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament
Following the conclusion of the group stage, Amo Region had progressed directly to the final, with Mis Ainak Region and Band-e-Amir Region moving to the Eliminator knock-out match. In the Eliminator match, Mis Ainak Region beat Band-e-Amir Region by seven wickets to join Amo Region in the final. In the final, Mis Ainak Region beat Amo Region by seven wickets to win their second title.


2020 Gibraltar Open
The 2020 Gibraltar Open (also known as the 2020 BetVictor Gibraltar Open due to sponsorship) was a professional snooker tournament, that took place from 13 to 15 March 2020 at the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar with qualifying rounds occurring on 11 and 12 March 2020. It was the fifteenth ranking event of the 2019–20 snooker season, and the final tournament in the European Series, following the German Masters, European Masters and Snooker Shoot Out. The event was the fifth Gibraltar Open tournament, first held in 2015.


2020 Gibraltar Open
The event was organized by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and sponsored by BetVictor. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, matches were originally limited to a maximum audience of 100. After the first day, all matches were played without any spectators. A number of professional players withdrew from the event, alongside 54 amateur players and a series of referees.


2020 Gibraltar Open
The defending champion was Stuart Bingham who defeated Ryan Day 4–1 in the 2019 final. Bingham lost 0–4 to Ben Woollaston in the third round of the event. Judd Trump won the championship – his 17th career and sixth ranking title of the season – after a 4–3 defeat of Kyren Wilson in the final. Winning six events became the record for the most ranking titles in a season with the victory. The tournament featured a total of £251,000 with the winner receiving £50,000. In addition to the winners purse, Trump also secured £150,000 for scoring the most ranking points across the European Series. There was a total of 63 century breaks made during the event, the highest of which a 144 made by Trump in frame three of the final against Wilson.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Tournament format
The event was the fifth iteration of the Gibraltar Open, having been first held in 2015. It took place from 13 to 15 March 2020 at the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar. The event was the 15th ranking tournament of the 2019–20 snooker season after the Players Championship, and preceding the Tour Championship. The defending champion was Stuart Bingham who had defeated Ryan Day 4–1 in the 2019 final. The Gibraltar Open was the final event of the 2020 BetVictor European Series, following the 2020 European Masters, 2020 German Masters and 2020 Snooker Shoot Out.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Tournament format
The tournament was organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and sponsored by BetVictor. Qualifying for the event was held from 11 to 12 March 2020 also at the Europa Point Sports Complex. Qualifying was played as best-of-5 frame matches, with the main stage of the event played as best-of-7 frames.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Tournament format
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, matches were originally limited to a maximum audience of 100. After the first day, this restriction was tightened and matches were played without crowds. As a number of tour referees were unable to travel to the venue as a result of the pandemic, some matches were played without referees, with players respotting balls for their opponents. The event was broadcast by Eurosport across Europe.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Tournament format, Prize fund
The event featured a total prize fund of £251,000 with the winner receiving £50,000. This was an increase of £74,000 and £25,000 respectively from the 2019 event. As part of the BetVictor European Series the player with the highest amount of prize money received from the four events won an additional £150,000. Prior to the event, only Neil Robertson and Judd Trump were in contention for the prize.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Tournament format, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2020 Gibraltar Open, Summary
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic several players withdrew from the event; Neil Robertson, John Higgins, Mark Allen, David Gilbert, Stephen Maguire, Ali Carter, Graeme Dott, Noppon Saengkham, Kurt Maflin, Anthony Hamilton, Mike Dunn, Fraser Patrick and Jimmy White, with some being replaced in the draw by amateur players.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Summary
The first three rounds of the event were played on 13 and 14 March 2020. Ben Woollaston defeated reigning Masters champion Stuart Bingham at the last 32 stage. Woollaston made breaks of 79 and 74 and eventually whitewashed Bingham 4–0. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh won his last 32 stage match 4–0 over Harvey Chandler in just 43 minutes. Three-time world champion Mark Williams defeated Martin Gould, but Mark Selby was defeated by Lyu Haotian. Kyren Wilson made breaks of 76, 90 and 107 to defeat Luca Brecel 4–0. Reigning world champion Judd Trump defeated native Gibraltan Lee Prickman, Brazil's Igor Figueiredo and Englishman Martin O'Donnell to reach the quarter-finals. Joe Perry was defeated by Jimmy Robertson in the last 32, meaning he did not have enough ranking points to qualify for the following event, the 2020 Tour Championship.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Summary
The final four rounds, from the last 16 onwards, were all played on 15 March. Wilson defeated Fergal O'Brien on a deciding frame before winning over both Un-Nooh in the quarter-finals and Mark Williams in the semi-finals 4–0 each to reach the final. Trump defeated three Chinese players, Li Hang, Liang Wenbo and Xiao Guodong to meet Wilson in the final. The first frame of the best-of-seven frame final was won by Trump, who made a break of 125, with Wilson winning the second frame with a break of 115.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Summary
Trump made a total clearance in his break of 144, before Wilson tied the score at 2–2. Wilson won frame five, before Trump made his third century break of the final, a 123 to force a deciding frame. Trump lead 52–0 but missed a black ball from its spot, but Wilson was unable to capitalise, allowing Trump to take the title with a break of 63 and win 4–3. In winning the event, Trump gained enough prize money to win the BetVictor European Series, earning a bonus of £150,000.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Summary
This was also Trump's sixth ranking event win of the season, the most in a single season of any player. Trump commented: "To win six ranking titles in a season, something which no one else has ever done, is an amazing achievement for me... I wasn't thinking about that tonight until it got to 3–3."


2020 Gibraltar Open, Main draw
Below is the full draw for the event. Players in bold denote match winners.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Qualifying
Qualifying for the event featuring amateur players took place in Gibraltar on 11 and 12 March 2020. There were a total of four rounds with all matches being played as the best-of-5 frames.


2020 Gibraltar Open, Century breaks, Main stage centuries
A total of 63 century breaks were made during the tournament. Judd Trump made the highest break of the event, a 144, in frame three of the final against Kyren Wilson.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
The 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections were held on 15 November 2020. Elections will be held in 24 constituencies, each electing one member to the 3rd Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. 330 candidates will contest these elections, either representing one of the political parties of Gilgit-Baltistan (at the time of the 2020 elections) or being an independent candidate.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
The elections were originally scheduled to be held on 18 August 2020, but were postponed in July due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which severely affected Gilgit-Baltistan.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
The Pakistan Army was not be called in to preside over the polls at the Election, with Mir Afzal, the Caretaker Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, giving a statement that the caretaker government had the capacity to hold free, fair, and transparent elections in Gilgit-Baltistan.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
Opinion polling taken before the election had shown the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), the ruling party prior to the 2020 election, being the third-most-popular political party in Gilgit-Baltistan, falling from its earlier position of making the province's government and having the largest vote-bank. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which rules nationally, led in the polls and the Pakistan Peoples Party has been shown as the second-most-popular political party.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
745,362 voters in Gilgit-Baltistan had the ability to exercise their right to vote in the elections and will be able to vote across nearly 1,234 polling places across the province. This showed an increase of 126,998 new voters since 2015, when only 618,364 people were registered to vote. 405,365 of the people registered to vote are male and 339,997 are female (which shows a gender gap of 9%).


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
The elections were be postponed in the constituency GBA-3 (Gilgit-III), due to the PTI candidate in that constituency, who was the provincial party leader, dying of COVID-19 in early October. The election there were held on November 22, seven days after the election throughout the rest of Gilgit-Baltistan.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election
Preliminary and unofficial results have shown the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf being all set to form the next government in Gilgit-Baltistan. They have won eleven general seats, Independent politicians have won seven seats, the Pakistan Peoples Party has won three seats, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has won two seats, and the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has won one seat.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Background, 2015 elections
Following the elections in 2015, Pakistan Muslim League (N), emerged as the largest party winning 15 of the 24 general seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, and securing a supermajority in the assembly after the three technocrat (two who went to PML(N)) and six women representatives (four who went to PML(N)) were added with a final total of 21 out of 33 seats. Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman was elected as the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Parties
The table below lists the ten political parties that fielded at least three candidates (out of a possible 24 constituencies) or won at least one assembly seat in the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, and gives a detailed overview of their characteristics. Parties are initially ordered by their voteshare in the 2015 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Election.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Opinion Polls
In the run up to the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan elections, various organisations have carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention throughout Gilgit-Baltistan. The results of such polls are displayed in this section. The date range for these opinion polls are from the previous general election, held on 8 June 2015, to the present day.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Opinion Polls, Voting Intention
The table below shows the results of polls taken which asked the people of Gilgit-Baltistan which political party they would vote for in the 2020 election.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Results
The two tables below show the results of the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Election by Political Party. The first table shows the results for the elections provincewide, through all 24 constituencies, and shows each political party's standing. The second table shows more detailed results for each of the 24 general constituencies.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Results
Currently, only unofficial provisional results that are being reported by various news sources are shown in the tables below, but in the future the final results will be uploaded onto the Gilgit-Baltistan Election Commission Official website.


2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, Results
PTI got 2/3rd majority in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly after getting 4 out of 6 reserved seats for women and 2 out of 3 reserved seats for technocrats. PPP got one women seat and one technocrat seat whereas PMLN only got one reserved seat for women.


2020 Ginetta GT4 Supercup
The 2020 Millers Oils Ginetta GT4 Supercup is a multi-event, one make GT motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Ginetta G55s that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece. It is the tenth Ginetta GT4 Supercup, having rebranded from the Ginetta G50 Cup, which ran between 2008 and 2010. The season commenced on 2 August at Donington Park and concludes on 15 November at Brands Hatch, utilising the Indy circuit, after nineteen races held at seven meetings, all in support of the 2020 British Touring Car Championship.


2020 Ginetta GT4 Supercup, Teams and drivers
On 17 January 2020, it was announced that a new Pro-Am class would be added.


2020 Ginetta Junior Championship
The 2020 Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship was a multi-event, one make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in Ginetta G40s that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship centrepiece. It was the fourteenth Ginetta Junior Championship, commencing on 1 August 2020 at Donington Park and concluding on 15 November 2020 at Brands Hatch, utilising the Grand Prix circuit. After nine meetings, all in support of the 2020 British Touring Car Championship, Tom Lebbon was crowned champion.


2020 Ginetta Junior Championship, Race Calendar
The Ginetta Junior Championship will not support every round of the British Touring Car Championship in 2020. The series will miss the third round of the BTCC season, Oulton Park.


2020 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships
The 2020 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships was scheduled to be the 11th edition of the Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championship. The tournament was scheduled to be held alongside the men's tournament from 12 to 18 July 2020 in Kazan, Russia.


2020 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships
The tournament was canceled on 31 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.


2020 Girls' EuroHockey Youth Championships, Qualified teams
The following teams have qualified for the 2020 EuroHockey Youth Championship:


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship
The 2020 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship was the 14th edition of the Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) the girls' under-17 national teams of Europe. The tournament was held in Montenegro from 1 to 9 October 2020.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CEV qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. The top six teams qualified for the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship as the CEV representatives.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship, Qualification
The second round qualifying stage for the final tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the CEV on 15 June 2020. First round qualifiers were Serbia, Russia, Slovakia, Finland and Italy. The remaining six participants were determined from European Ranking after the respective National Federations confirmed their participation in the event. Despite securing their spot through winning the NEVZA qualifying event, Finland have withdrawn from the competition. The next best team from the relevant European Ranking – Poland – has taken their spot.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship, Pools composition
The drawing of lots was combined with a seeding of National Federations and performed as follows:


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship, Pools composition
Before the start of the tournament it was announced that Germany have withdrawn due to travel restrictions imposed by COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship, Awards
At the conclusion of the tournament, the following players were selected as the tournament dream team.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification
This article describes the qualification for the 2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification
The second round of qualifying stage for the final tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the CEV on 15 June 2020. The tournament itself was held with the remaining participants determined from European Ranking after the respective National Federations confirm their participation in the event.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, First round, BVA
The BVA zonal qualifying process was hosted by the Turkish Volleyball Federation and held in Balıkesir, Turkey. The national teams of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey participated from the BVA region.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, First round, EEVZA
The EEVZA zonal qualifying process was hosted by the Georgian Volleyball Federation and held in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nine countries have registered for the event – Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, First round, MEVZA
The MEVZA zonal qualifying process was hosted by the Croatian Volleyball Federation and held in Zadar, Croatia.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, First round, NEVZA
The NEVZA zonal qualifying process was hosted by the Danish Volleyball Federation and held in Køge, Denmark. The national teams of Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark participated from the NEVZA region, with the addition of Ireland from the Small Countries Association as they do not hold their own qualifying event in this age group.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, First round, WEVZA
The WEVZA zonal qualifying process was hosted by the Portuguese Volleyball Federation and held in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.


2020 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Second round, Pools composition
The second round organisers were drawn and then the pools were set accordingly, following the Serpentine system according to their European Ranking for national teams as of June 2019. Rankings are shown in brackets.


2020 Giro Rosa
The 31st women's Giro d'Italia, or Giro Rosa, was held from 11 to 19 September 2020. It is considered the most prestigious stage race of the women's calendar and of the 2020 UCI Women's World Tour. The race was originally scheduled from 26 June to 5 July, but was postponed to mid-September due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and reduced to 9 stages rather than the originally planned 10.


2020 Giro Rosa, Route
The race consisted of 9 stages totalling 975.8 km (606.3 mi), which began in Grosseto on 11 September with a team time trial and finished in Motta Montecorvino on 19 September.


2020 Giro Rosa, Teams
All eight UCI Women's WorldTeams, as well as fifteen UCI Women's Continental Teams, participated in the race. Each of the twenty-three teams entered six riders, for a total of 138 riders. Of 85 of these riders finished the race.


2020 Giro Rosa, Stages, Stage 8
Race leader Annemiek van Vleuten and points classification leader Marianne Vos were among those involved in a crash with under three kilometers to go on stage 7. As a result of injuries sustained in that crash, van Vleuten, along with teammate Amanda Spratt, were forced to abandon the race, while Vos escaped with only abrasions. Due to van Vleuten's withdrawal, second placed Katarzyna Niewiadoma wore the pink jersey on stage 8. Van Vleuten subsequently started the World Championships after surgery on her wrist. Amanda Spratt withdrew from the World Championships.


2020 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
In the 2020 Giro d'Italia Femminile, five different jerseys were awarded.


2020 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
The most important was the general classification (GC), which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively. Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The rider with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by a pink jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2020 Giro d'Italia Femminile, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2020 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages – with the exception of the team time trial, which awards no points towards the classification – were awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15 points, with 12 for second, 10 for third, 8 for fourth, 6 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place.


2020 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; however on both categories, the top five riders were awarded points. The fourth jersey represents the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.


2020 Giro Rosa, Classification leadership table
The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Italian riders, marked by a blue jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Italy were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. The daily team leaders wore red dossards in the following stage.


2020 Giro Rosa, Prize money
The prize money for the Giro Rosa 2020  will be divided as follows (all in Euros):


2020 Giro d'Italia
The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the 103rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour. The start of the 2020 Giro (known as the Grande Partenza) had been planned to take place in Budapest, Hungary, which would have been the 14th time the Giro has started outside Italy, and the first time a Grand Tour has visited Hungary.


2020 Giro d'Italia
The event was jeopardised by the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, and in March 2020 it was postponed, as other early season races in Italy had been. When the government of Hungary announced they would not allow the Grande Partenza to take place, RCS Sport decided they would postpone the race to a later to-be-determined date. On 15 April, UCI announced that both Giro and Vuelta would take place in autumn after the 2020 UCI Road World Championships. On 5 May, UCI announced that the Giro would take place between 3 and 25 October.


2020 Giro d'Italia
The race was won by Tao Geoghegan Hart of Great Britain, who finished 39 seconds ahead of Australia's Jai Hindley.


2020 Giro d'Italia, Teams
Twenty-two teams participated in the 2020 Giro d'Italia. All nineteen UCI WorldTeams are entitled, and obliged, to enter the race. Additionally, three second-tier UCI ProTeams were invited to participate in the event. The teams were announced on 16 January 2020. On 13 October 2020, ahead of the start of stage 10, Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma withdrew all their remaining riders from the race following positive COVID-19 tests.


2020 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favourites
Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), the 2018 Tour de France champion, was considered the pre-race favourite. Simon Yates (Mitchelton–Scott) was seen as one of his main challengers after beating Thomas in the lead-up race Tirreno–Adriatico. Steven Kruijswijk (Team Jumbo–Visma), a previous race leader in 2016, was another top contender, as was the only past champion in the field – two-time winner Vincenzo Nibali (Trek–Segafredo). Astana's trio of Jakob Fuglsang, Miguel Ángel López and Aleksandr Vlasov were also seen as top contenders. Other riders considered as contenders included Rafal Majka (Bora–Hansgrohe) and Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb). Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck–Quick-Step) was earlier considered a favourite but did not enter the race due to injuries sustained in Il Lombardia.


2020 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favourites
Riders believed to be the main contenders for victories on the sprint stages were Arnaud Démare (Groupama–FDJ), Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates), Peter Sagan (Bora–Hansgrohe), Elia Viviani (Cofidis) and Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb).


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2020 Giro d'Italia was the 103rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Monreale with an individual time trial on 3 October, and Stage 11 occurred on 14 October with a stage to Rimini. The race finished in Milano on 25 October.


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
3 October 2020 - Monreale to Palermo, 15 km (9.3 mi) (ITT)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
4 October 2020 - Alcamo to Agrigento, 149 km (93 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
5 October 2020 - Enna to Etna, 150 km (93 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
6 October 2020 - Catania to Villafranca Tirrena, 140 km (87 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
7 October 2020 - Mileto to Camigliatello Silano, 225 km (140 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
8 October 2020 - Castrovillari to Matera, 188 km (117 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
9 October 2020 - Matera to Brindisi, 143 km (89 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
10 October 2020 - Giovinazzo to Vieste, 200 km (120 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
11 October 2020 - San Salvo to Roccaraso (Aremogna), 207 km (129 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
13 October 2020 - Lanciano to Tortoreto, 177 km (110 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
14 October 2020 - Porto Sant'Elpidio to Rimini, 182 km (113 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2020 Giro d'Italia was the 103th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Monreale with an individual time trial on 3 October, and Stage 12 occurred on 15 October with a stage from Cesenatico. The race finished in Milano on 25 October.


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
15 October 2020 - Cesenatico to Cesenatico, 204 km (127 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
16 October 2020 - Cervia to Monselice, 192 km (119 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
17 October 2020 - Conegliano to Valdobbiadene, 34.1 km (21.2 mi) (ITT)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15
18 October 2020 - Base Aerea Rivolto to Piancavallo, 185 km (115 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
20 October 2020 - Udine to San Daniele del Friuli, 229 km (142 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17
21 October 2020 - Bassano del Grappa to Madonna di Campiglio, 203 km (126 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
22 October 2020 - Pinzolo to Laghi di Cancano, 207 km (129 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19
23 October 2020 - Morbegno Abbiategrasso to Asti, 124.5 km (77.4 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
24 October 2020 - Alba to Sestriere, 190 km (120 mi)


2020 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
25 October 2020 - Cernusco sul Naviglio to Milano, 15.7 km (9.8 mi) (ITT)


2020 Giro dell'Emilia
The 2020 Giro dell'Emilia was the 103rd edition of the Giro dell'Emilia road cycling one-day race. It was held on 18 August 2020 as part of the 2020 UCI Europe Tour and the inaugural UCI ProSeries.


2020 Giro dell'Emilia, Teams
Twenty-five teams, consisting of eight UCI WorldTeams, eight UCI ProTeams, eight UCI Continental teams, and one national team, participated in the race. Each team entered six riders, except for Circus–Wanty Gobert, Giotti Victoria, and Rally Cycling, which each entered five. 68 of the 147 riders that participated in the race finished.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide
The 2020 Gjerdrum landslide was a quick clay landslide that occurred in the early hours of 30 December 2020 at Ask village, the administrative centre of Gjerdrum, Norway. It spanned a flow off area of 300 by 700 metres (980 by 2,300 ft) and additionally affected 9 hectares (22 acres) by debris flow. Several buildings were destroyed, most of them houses and apartment buildings.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide
As of February 9th, 2021, nine people had been confirmed killed by the landslide, while one remains missing.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide
The causes of the landslide will be investigated by police; another investigation, tasked with finding - prior to August 2021 - the causes of the landslide, will be performed by a group of experts.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Background
There have previously been landslides in Gjerdrum municipality. During the night between 20 and 21 October 1924, a landslide destroyed several farms and damaged 1600 metres of road. In 1973 there was a landslide at Ask. A 1980 landslide was near the south end of the 2020 landslide. In 2014, a landslide destroyed two houses.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Background
In July 2008, an article published in Romerikes Blad stated that hydrologist and geologist Steinar Myrabø had warned the municipality of soil erosion and the potential risk of a landslide, calling for a halt in construction at Nystulia on behalf of Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature's local chapter. In November 2020 a hiking path was constructed 150 m westwards of the later slide area. The photos of  heavy machinery initiated public concern. But the path and the slide area are separated by two small ridges and the Fjelstadbekken stream.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Background
According to the broadcaster NRK, intense rain in the days before the incident may have caused soil movements in the area. The Nannestad municipality next to Gjerdrum evacuated a hamlet on 15. December 2020 after a small landslide nearby.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations
The first reports of the landslide were made at 3:51 am on 30 December 2020. 10 people were injured, with 26 initially reported missing, though it was later determined that the actual number of missing persons was 10.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations
On New Year's Day, assistance from Sweden was requested; a 14-person Urban Search and Rescue team from Sweden worked onsite, and was released the same evening after the arrival of additional Norwegian rescue personnel.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations
By January 1st 2021, details of the ten people missing were published by police. The same day, the first casualty was reported. Early on 2 January, the body of a second victim was found, and later that day two more people were found dead. On 3 January, three more people were found dead, bringing the death toll to seven. Three people still remained missing, with searches continuing.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations
On January 5th, 2021, the Norwegian authorities stated they no longer held out any hope of finding further survivors. At that time, three people were still missing.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations
A video released by the police on January 6th shows a rescue helicopter over the landslide, searching for survivors. The video is recorded by a police helicopter, and from the communications one can hear how they are trying to guide the rescue helicopter to the potential survivors' location.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations, Victims
The names of the victims were made public on 1 January, with the permission of their families.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations, Search for presumed dead
On 5 January the police stated that they no longer held out any hope of finding more survivors, but would continue the search for the last three victims.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations, Search for presumed dead
The same day the Norwegian Armed Forces and their equipment left the area, with only the Home Guard left on the scene till 12 January


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations, Search for presumed dead
The Norwegian Civil Defence terminated their mission on 15 January and a civilian security company continued to guard the affected areas.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations, Search for presumed dead
After a two weeks break the search for the remaining missing victims continued from January 18.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Search and recovery operations, Search for presumed dead
On February 9th, 2021 two bodies were located by search teams searching for the three remaining missing victims.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Mobilized resources
Several government and private organizations, military units and volunteer organizations were involved in the search and recovery operation:


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Aftermath
The Nannestad and Gjerdrum Red Cross received large amounts of donations of toys, clothing, and hygiene products for the survivors of the landslide.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Aftermath
Following the disaster, several news outlets revealed that the affected area had been designated as a high-risk area for landslides as early as 2005 and that it was scheduled for a new evaluation in 2021 due to the increased amount of housing and construction projects in the area.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Aftermath
Several experts and engineers later criticized the Norwegian national government as well as local government for not taking high-risk areas seriously and allowing housing projects to continue despite having "clear instructions of how to deal with these areas for over fifty years."


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Reactions
Prime Minister Erna Solberg visited the affected area on 31 December 2020, and King Harald V dedicated parts of his New Year's Speech to those affected by the disaster.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Reactions
The King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, also publicly expressed his sympathies the following day. The President of Finland Sauli Niinistö and the Prime Minister Sanna Marin also expressed their condolences to the Norwegian government and people.


2020 Gjerdrum landslide, Reactions
On 3 January 2021, King Harald V, Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon visited the disaster area to speak with rescuers, volunteers, evacuees and their relatives.


2020 Global Awards
The 2020 Global Awards ceremony was held on Thursday 5 March 2020 at London's Eventim Apollo and was sponsored by very.co.uk. Roman Kemp and Myleene Klass returned to host the ceremony and were joined by Kate Garraway who replaced Rochelle Humes


2020 Global Awards, Performances
Performances and special appearances included Ellie Goulding, Stereophonics, Camila Cabello, Aitch, Tones and I, Aled Jones and Russell Watson.


2020 Global Awards, Nominees and winners
The list of nominees was announced in January 2020. Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi were the most nominated male singers. The most nominated female singers were Dua Lipa and Camila Cabello.


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season
The 2020 season of Global Rapid Rugby ended after only one round of competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was not continued. The season was launched in February 2020 as the first full home and away Rapid Rugby tournament, following the shorter showcase series held the previous year.


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season
It featured six teams from across the Asia-Pacific region competing for A$1 million in prize money. On 15 March 2020 the competition was suspended due to travel, quarantine and public health restrictions, before being cancelled on 7 April 2020.


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season, Teams
The following six teams were announced for the Rapid Rugby season in 2020:


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season, Standings
The top two teams in the standings after the completion of the regular season were scheduled to meet in a grand final match on 6 June to decide the championship title. A modified version of the rugby bonus points system was used.


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season, Standings
One bonus point was awarded for each of the following in a game:


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season, Standings
Four points were awarded for a win and none for a loss. Two points were awarded to each team for a draw.


2020 Global Rapid Rugby season, Regular season, Round 1
The remaining nine rounds of competition matches and the final were cancelled.


2020 Glynhill Ladies International
The 2020 Glynhill Ladies International was held January 16 to 19, 2020 at the Braehead Curling Rink in Renfrew, Glasgow, Scotland as a part of the 2019–20 curling season. The event was held in a round robin format with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs and the bottom eight teams going to the consolation round. The purse for the event was £ 10,600.


2020 Glynhill Ladies International
In the final, Team Kim Eun-jung of Korea capped off a perfect 6–0 tournament by defeating Team Isabella Wranå of Sweden 8–3 in the final. In the consolation final, Selina Witschonke of Switzerland topped Maggie Wilson of Scotland 5–4. To reach the final, Kim defeated Team Binia Feltscher of Switzerland 8–7 in one semifinal and Wranå beat Team Anna Sidorova of Russia by the same score in the other.


2020 Glynhill Ladies International, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+00:00).


2020 Go Bowling 235
The 2020 Go Bowling 235 was a NASCAR Cup Series raced on August 16, 2020, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 65 laps on the 3.61-mile (5.81 km) road course, it was the 23rd race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season, which was a replacement race for the Watkins Glen round because of government restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Go Bowling 235
The race had three stages: the first two stages at 15 laps each, and 35 for the final.


2020 Go Bowling 235
On July 30, it was revealed after simulation testing revealed concerns of high speeds entering turn 1 (a turn already considered to be difficult among road racers), a temporary chicane was added in between the 4th turn of the oval and the entrance to pit road (similar to the Charlotte ROVAL). NASCAR further announced that it would use the high-downforce aero package used for the road course races in 2019 (in 2020, road courses were scheduled to use a low-downforce package similar to what was used in 2018 and what is used on ovals 1-mile or shorter in 2020). The addition of the chicane increased the length of the course from 3.56 to 3.61 miles and added a 13th and 14th turn to the original 12-turn layout.


2020 Go Bowling 235, Qualifying
Kevin Harvick was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a new formula that NASCAR officials announced on August 6. The formula will use three performance metrics, which will be weighted and averaged to determine the lineup and pit selection order. The metrics are Finishing position from the previous race (weighted 50%), Ranking in team owner points standings (35%), and Fastest lap from the previous race (15%).


2020 Go Bowling 235, Qualifying
Kaz Grala replaced Austin Dillon, who was medically disqualified by NASCAR after a positive virus test. NASCAR further restricted drivers from racing in more than one race during the weekend, which meant typical Xfinity drivers who would substitute would not be permitted to participate in the Cup race. NASCAR did allow an Xfinity Series driver who was still on premises to relieve for a Cup driver in Sunday's event who fell ill.


2020 Go Bowling 235, Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton, Steve Letarte and four-time Daytona winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. covered the race from the booth at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman and Dillon Welch handled the pit road duties on site, and Rutledge Wood handled the features from his home during the race.


2020 Go Bowling 235, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2020 Golden Gala
The 2020 Golden Gala was the 40th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Rome, Italy. Held on 17 September at the Stadio Olimpico, it was the seventh leg of the 2020 Diamond League – the highest level international track and field circuit. Originally meant to be staged in Naples, Italy in the month of May, the meet had been delayed and was closed to in-stadium spectators due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Golden Gala
After fourteen attempts prior to the meeting during the outdoor season, the world indoor record holder for Sweden, Mondo Duplantis, set the outdoor world best in the men's pole vault with a height of 6.15 metres. Though the mark was 0.03 less than his indoor record, it was 0.01 more than the previous outdoor best set by Sergey Bubka. Ben Broeders placed second with a height of 5.80 metres, a Belgian record.


2020 Golden Gala
A world leading time was also set in the men's 3000 metres by Jacob Kiplimo, winning in 7:26.64 which was also a Diamond League record, a meeting record, and a Ugandan record. The time made the 19-year old #8 on the all-time list, with second place Jakob Ingebrigtsen, also 19 years old, going #9 all-time with a Norwegian record (7:27.05). Australian Stewart McSweyn set an Oceanian record (7:28.02) to place third, with fourth place Yemaneberhan Crippa also setting an Italian record (7:38.27).


2020 Golden Gala
Karsten Warholm clocked his fifth sub-48 seconds in the men's 400 metres hurdles in the 2020 season, winning in 47.07 seconds to set a meeting record and the top five times in the event that year.


2020 Golden Gala
In the women's events, Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a world leading time in her first international race in the 100 metres with a time of 10.85 seconds, taking one hundredth of a second off fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's previous world leading time of 10.86 seconds.


2020 Golden Gala, Results
Because of the disrupted season with several cancelled meets, no Diamond League points were awarded for athlete placements.


2020 Google services outages
During three episodes in 2020, Google suffered from severe outages that disrupted various of their services. The first was a Gmail/Google Drive outage in August, the second, in November, affected mainly YouTube; and the third, in December, affected most of their services. These outages seemed to be global.


2020 Google services outages, August 2020 services outage
On 20 August 2020, over a period of approximately six hours, a global outage abruptly disrupted Google's suite of services, including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Meet and Google Voice. The outage is reported to have started around 06:30 UTC. Google acknowledged the worldwide disruption in the G Suite Status Dashboard. Users complained that they were unable to upload files to Gmail, transfer files, and upload files to Google Drive. There were also reports that some users were unable to log in to their Gmail accounts. The reason for the technical issue is not publicly known. For users in India, a Gmail outage had occurred one month prior, in July.


2020 Google services outages, November 2020 YouTube/Google TV outage
On 11 November 2020, another outage occurred on YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube TV, Google TV and Google Play. The outage started at roughly 12:20 UTC. Users experienced problems playing videos, error messages, and errors that caused loading loops. At 04:13 UTC, YouTube gave the all-clear on its Twitter.


2020 Google services outages, December 2020 services outage
On 14 December 2020, another global outage occurred, affecting authenticated users of most Google services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Play. The problem was due to a failure in Google Accounts; services such as YouTube were still accessible with private browsing. Google Workspace Status Dashboard showed all services as operational for approximately 40 minutes before correctly reporting their status as down. The outage started at approximately 11:45 UTC, and Google services were restored around 13:00 UTC.


2020 Google services outages, December 2020 services outage
Google identified the issue as an accidental reduction of capacity on their central user ID management system, causing requests that required OAuth-based authentication to fail; this also included the Google Cloud Platform.


2020 Google services outages, December 2020 services outage
On 15 December 2020, many emails sent to Gmail servers reported a 550 error code, which incorrectly indicates that the email address does not exist.


2020 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021, and the winners were announced on June 1. Ordinarily the award shortlists and winners would have been named in fall 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.


2020 Grambling State Tigers football team
The 2020 Grambling State Tigers football team represents Grambling State University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers are led by seventh-year head coach Broderick Fobbs and play their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium in Grambling, Louisiana as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).


2020 Grambling State Tigers football team
On July 20, 2020, the Southwestern Athletic Conference announced that it would not play fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes the football program. The conference is formalizing plans to conduct a competitive schedule for football during the 2021 spring semester.


2020 Grambling State Tigers football team, Previous season
The Tigers finished the 2019 season 6–5, 4–3 in SWAC play to finish tied for second place in the West Division.


2020 Grambling State Tigers football team, Schedule
The 2020 schedule consists of 3 home, 5 away, and 2 neutral site games in the regular season. The Tigers will travel to SWAC foes Alcorn State, Texas Southern, and Alabama A&M. The Tigers will play host to SWAC foes Mississippi Valley State, Alabama State, and Arkansas–Pine Bluff. The Tigers will play two neutral site conference games—the State Fair Classic against Prairie View A&M at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX and the Bayou Classic against Southern at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA.


2020 Grambling State Tigers football team, Schedule
Due to the SWAC's postponement of the 2020 football season to spring 2021, games against South Alabama, South Carolina State and UTSA were canceled. The SWAC released updated spring schedules on August 17.


2020 Gran Piemonte
The 2020 Gran Piemonte was the 104th edition of the Gran Piemonte (known as Giro del Piemonte until 2009) single-day cycling race. It was held on 12 August, over a distance of 187 km, starting in Santo Stefano Belbo and ending in Barolo.


2020 Gran Piemonte
The race was won by George Bennett of Team Jumbo–Visma.


2020 Gran Piemonte, Teams
Eighteen teams were invited to take part in the race. These included eleven UCI WorldTeams, six UCI ProTeams and the Italian national team.


2020 Grand Canyon Antelopes men's soccer team
The 2020 Grand Canyon men's soccer team represented Grand Canyon University during the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 36th season of the Grand Canyon men's soccer team.


2020 Grand Canyon Antelopes men's soccer team, Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
On August 13, 2020, the Western Athletic Conference postponed all fall sports through the end of the calendar year.


2020 Grand Canyon Antelopes men's soccer team, Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
On November 4, 2020, the NCAA approved a plan for college soccer to be played in the spring.


2020 Grand Canyon Antelopes men's soccer team, Roster
Source:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Grand Prix Hassan II
The 2020 Grand Prix Hassan II is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Grand Prix Hassan II
It would be the 36th edition of the tournament and part of the 2020 ATP Tour. It would take place in Marrakesh, Morocco originally scheduled for 6 to 12 April 2020.


2020 Grand Prix La Marseillaise
The 2020 Grand Prix La Marseillaise was the 41st edition of the Grand Prix La Marseillaise cycle race. It was held on 2 February 2020 as a category 1.1 race on the 2020 UCI Europe Tour. The race started and finished in Marseille. The race was won by Benoît Cosnefroy of AG2R La Mondiale.


2020 Grand Prix La Marseillaise, Teams
Fifteen teams of up to seven riders started the race:


2020 Grand Prix Zagreb Open
The 2020 Grand Prix Zagreb Open was a wrestling event held in Zagreb, Croatia between 07 and 08 of November 2020.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts
The 2020 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts was the fourteenth staging of the Grand Slam of Darts, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place, behind closed doors, from 16 to 24 November 2020 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts
The tournament's two-time defending champion was Gerwyn Price, who successfully defended his 2018 title by defeating Peter Wright 16–6 in 2019. Price's title defence came to an end when, after surviving a match dart from Ryan Joyce to progress through the group stage, he eventually lost 8–10 to Nathan Aspinall in the last 16.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts
José de Sousa became the first Portuguese darts player to win a televised title by beating James Wade 16–12 in the final; de Sousa also became the first debutant since the tournament's inception to win the title, as well as the first to win the title, without finishing top in the group phase.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts
Dimitri Van den Bergh broke the record for the highest individual average for this tournament when he beat Ricky Evans 5–1 in the group stage, averaging 114.85, beating Phil Taylor's previous record of 114.65 set in the 2014 tournament. Additionally, Simon Whitlock broke Adrian Lewis' record of hitting the most 180s in a Grand Slam match by scoring 20 maximums in his quarter-final victory over Michael van Gerwen.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Prize money
The prize fund for the Grand Slam was the same as 2019, with the winner getting £125,000.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying
The qualification criteria was changed from 2019, with the number of entrants from the British Darts Organisation being reduced from eight to two, with a corresponding increase in PDC players. The winner of the 2020 PDC Home Tour was invited, as were the top players from the PDC's Summer, Autumn and Winter Series events and the winner of the new women's qualifier. The Champions League of Darts was not held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Tournaments
At most twenty-two players could have qualified through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Tournaments
Since the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than twenty-two players, the field of twenty-two players was filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2020 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered by Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Tournaments
Since there were still less than twenty-two qualified players after the winners of European Tour events were added, the winners of 2020 Players Championships events were added, in Order of Merit order.


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Qualifying, PDC Qualifying Event
A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier on 9 November. These are the qualifiers:


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Michael van Gerwen (1) Peter Wright (2) Gerwyn Price (3) Michael Smith (4) Rob Cross (5) Nathan Aspinall (6) James Wade (7) Gary Anderson (8)


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Dave Chisnall  Dimitri Van den Bergh Ian White  Glen Durrant Krzysztof Ratajski  Jonny Clayton Joe Cullen Simon Whitlock


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Jermaine Wattimena  Ricky Evans  Gabriel Clemens  Devon Petersen José de Sousa Luke Humphries Ryan Joyce  Ryan Searle


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Dirk van Duijvenbode  Justin Pipe  Damon Heta Adam Hunt  Lisa Ashton Adam Gawlas Wayne Warren (BDO) Mikuru Suzuki (BDO)


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stage
All group matches are best of nine legs  After three games, the top two in each group qualify for the knock-out stage


2020 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stage
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to Knockout Stage


2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election
The 2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election was conducted on 1 December 2020 to elect members to all 150 wards of the municipal corporation.


2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election, Results By Ward
The results were announced on r December 2020, The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has won 56 wards while Bharatiya Janata Party and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen have won 48 and 44 wards respectively. The winners are as follows.


2020 Greek Basketball Super Cup
The 2020 Greek Basketball Super Cup is the 1st edition of the revived Greek professional domestic basketball super cup competition, under the auspices of the Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association (HEBA), and the 2nd overall. The Greek Basketball Super Cup had been played only once before, in 1986, under the auspices of the Hellenic Basketball Federation (E.O.K. ).


2020 Greek Basketball Super Cup, Format
The competition will be played on a final-four format and single elimination games, between the teams placed in the four first places of the 2019–20 Greek Basket League, which include the 2019–20 Greek Basketball Cup winner and finalist.


2020 Greek presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Greece on Wednesday 22 January 2020 for the President of the Hellenic Republic. Incumbent President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who was elected by the Hellenic Parliament on the 18 February 2015, was eligible for re-election but was not suggested by the government.


2020 Greek presidential election
Katerina Sakellaropoulou won the election with 261 votes. She was elected as the 13th and first female President of Greece.


2020 Greek presidential election, Date
The election procedure was held on Wednesday 22 January 2020.


2020 Greek presidential election, Constitutional provisions
According to Article 32 the Constitution of Greece, the head of state is elected for a five-year term by the Hellenic Parliament in a special session at least a month before the incumbent's term expires. The first and second rounds require a super majority of 200 out of the 300-strong body, dropping to 180 on the third.


2020 Greek presidential election, Constitutional provisions
In the event of a non-election even after the third ballot, the parliament is to be dissolved and a snap election to be called within ten days. After reconvening, the new parliament holds a maximum of three further rounds of voting, with the required majority at 180 votes in the fourth and a simple majority of 151 votes in the fifth round. A sixth and last round would be contested between the two candidates with the most votes and decided by a relative majority.


2020 Greek presidential election, Constitutional provisions
However, on 25 November 2019 after a constitutional amendment, the parliament decided the dissolution of snap elections when the president is not elected in the first 3 ballots. That means the Article 32, Paragraph 4 of the Greek Constitution which says about the election of the President has changed and the new reform of the paragraph is: If after 3 ballots the president is not elected, the 4th ballot will be to 151 votes and the 5th and last ballot would be contested between the two candidates with the most votes and decided by a relative majority. That means the 6th ballot is removed.


2020 Greek presidential election, Candidates
In afternoon of Wednesday 15 January 2020, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that the government would suggest Katerina Sakellaropoulou for the presidency, who had been President of the Council of State since 2018.


2020 Greek presidential election, Candidates
The next day, MeRA25 announced that they would not support Sakellaropoulou and suggest their own candidate, Magda Fissa. She is known as the mother of singer Pavlos Fissas, who was murdered by fans of the Golden Dawn in 2013. Later that night, Fissa stated that she had not been informed of the proposal by the Secretary-General of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis; she later declined the offer, meaning she would not be a candidate for the post.


2020 Greek presidential election, Procedure
On the morning of Wednesday 22 January 2020, the parliament elected Katerina Sakellaropoulou as 13th President of Greece with 261 votes. 33 MPs voted "present" and 6 MPs were absent.


2020 Green Bay Packers season
The 2020 season was the Green Bay Packers' 100th season in the National Football League, their 102nd overall and their second under head coach Matt LaFleur.


2020 Green Bay Packers season
They matched their 13–3 record and NFC Championship appearance from the last season, clinching home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs for the first time since 2011.


2020 Green Bay Packers season
The Packers clinched both their second consecutive playoff berth and NFC North title following a Week 14 win against the Lions and a Vikings loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the same day. With their victory over the Bears in Week 17, they earned home field advantage, a first round bye, and the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. They would defeat the Los Angeles Rams 32–18 in the Divisional round, but their season ended after a 31–26 defeat to the eventual Super Bowl LV champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship Game. Aaron Rodgers won his third NFL MVP at the NFL Honors for his performance in 2020.


2020 Green Bay Packers season, Player movements, Roster cuts
The roster was cut to 53 on September 5, 2020.


2020 Green Bay Packers season, Final roster
Rookies in italics52 active, 19 inactive, 16 practice squad (+2 exempt)


2020 Green Bay Packers season, Preseason
The Packers' preseason schedule was announced on May 7, but was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Green National Convention
The 2020 Green National Convention is an event in which delegates of the Green Party of the United States chose its nominees for president and vice president in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The convention was originally scheduled to be held from July 9–12, 2020, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, but it was decided to instead hold the convention online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Green National Convention, Site selection
On August 18, 2019, the Green National Committee selected Detroit, Michigan, as the site for the 2020 convention, to take place from July 9–12 at Wayne State University. Greenville, South Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, were also considered to host the convention. On April 24, 2020, it was instead announced that plans to have a physical convention were cancelled and that it would instead be held online, as Wayne State University informed the Green Party that it would be not able to accommodate them due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Green National Convention, Delegate allocation
State Green Parties elect delegates to the presidential nominating convention, typically conducted through a state party convention, caucus or primary. National Green Party Identity Caucuses also elect delegates to the convention. Based on active state parties and caucuses, there can be up to 350 delegates in attendance, each committed to vote in reflection of their state party membership's preference. Utilizing proportional representation, many states send delegates representing multiple candidates, in contrast to a winner-take-all plurality voting system.


2020 Green National Convention, Delegate allocation
The delegates of the presidential nominating convention are different from the elected delegates of the Green National Committee, the party's routine decision-making body.


2020 Green National Convention, Speakers
The following people have been announced as speakers at the convention:


2020 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election
The Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2020 was held on 25 January 2020 when the Green Party elected its co-leaders. Petr Štěpánek, Michal Berg and Petr Globočník ran for the position of male co-leader while Magdalena Davis and Anna Gümplová ran for position of female co-leader. Michal Berg and Magdalena Davis received highest number of votes and were elected.


2020 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Background
Petr Štěpánek was elected leader of Green Party on 20 January 2018 following party's loss in 2017 legislative election. The party has since changed its statute so it will be led by co-leaders, one male and one female. Štěpánek decided to run for the position of male leader. Petr Globočník and Michal Berg announced their decisions to challenge Štěpánek. Magdalena Davis and Anna Gümplová submitted candidacies for the female leader.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland)
The 2020 Green Party leadership election was a leadership election within Ireland's Green Party. The election was won by Eamon Ryan who received 51% of the votes cast and retained his position as leader.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Background
The constitution of the Green Party mandates there must always be a leadership contest within the party within six months of a general election. The 2020 Irish general election triggered this election.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Background
Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin have been Leader and Deputy Leader of the Green party, respectively, since 2011. Ryan was credited with rebuilding the Green Party after it lost all representation in the Oireachtas in 2011. Ryan and Martin were the first two Greens to win back seats as Teachtai Dála at the 2016 Irish general election and in the 2020 Irish general election, the party had its best result ever when it secured 12 seats.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Background
In the prelude to the leadership contest were the government formation talks between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party as they put together the Government of the 33rd Dáil. Catherine Martin served as the Green's lead negotiator in those talks and was considered to have stood firm for the Greens' demands.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Procedure
Candidates must receive 50 nominations by party members. All members of the party have a vote, provided they have been a paid-up party member, including members from Northern Ireland.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Procedure
Postal ballot papers were sent to Green party members on 1 July and the closing date for returning votes was 22 July. The results were announced on 23 July 2020.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Candidates
Within the Green Party, Martin's candidacy was seen to represent the views of younger, more radical Green Party members who did not wish to enter into coalition with Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil, in contrast to the leadership of Eamon Ryan which was seen to represent the moderate "old guard" who are open to working with those parties.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Candidates
There was also the view amongst some Green Party members that Martin would be a sterner, more hardnosed leader than the more relaxed and approachable Ryan, and that Martin's more aggressive approach would be needed to safeguard the party against Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil backsliding on promises to them.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Candidates
Supporters of Ryan argued that his warm manner is what helped him build relations both inside and outside of the party, and this would be important in holding the three parties together in government as well as settling the party down after divisive issues such as entering government and the leadership contest itself.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Debates
4 internal debates were held over the course of election. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debates were held online via Zoom conferences. One debate was held for each of the Republic of Ireland's European Parliament constituencies, and a fourth debate for members from Northern Ireland. Over the course of debates, Ryan generally presented himself as the experienced and dependable choice while Martin presented herself as more able to communicate with rural Ireland and build the party's support there, as well as stressing the importance of pursuing Social Justice. Both candidates stressed they did not want the contest to divide the party, and regardless of who won, the leader would need to heal any wounds within the party and rebuild the party's cohesiveness.


2020 Green Party leadership election (Ireland), Result
Eamon Ryan was declared the victor on 23 July 2020. The contest was considered to be have been especially close, with only 48 votes separating the two candidates. Ryan acknowledged this, stating "It is a really close result. The numbers could have gone either way". Ryan declared his intention going forward was to "help this party and our country and our people through this remarkably challenging period." Martin thanked her supporters and stated her belief that Ryan would be able to reunite and rebuild the party following months of tension caused by the government formation talks and the leadership contest. Ryan thanked Martin for conducting a civil contest.


2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election
The Green Party of British Columbia held an election between September 5 and 13, 2020, to elect a leader to replace Andrew Weaver, who resigned on January 6, 2020, due to a personal health issue. Adam Olsen was made interim leader shortly after Weaver's resignation. Party members cast votes online and by telephone, using ranked ballots. Members and supporters 16 years of age and older were eligible to vote.


2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election
On March 27, 2020, the election was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant state of emergency in the province. Before the postponement, voting was to take place between June 15 and 26. The deadline to enter the race was to be April 15, and debates were planned to take place after April 30, in three regions of the province. The winner was to be announced at the party's convention in Nanaimo from June 26 to 28 that year.


2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election
The campaign resumed on June 15, 2020. The party opened a second nomination period which ran from June 26 to July 27. Members and supporters had until August 21 to register in order to be able to vote by phone, and until September 2 to be able to vote online. A debate took place on September 1. Voting occurred from September 5 to 13. On September 14, 2020, it was announced that Sonia Furstenau had won the contest. Turnout among eligible voters was 85%.


2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election, Candidates, Cam Brewer
Cam Brewer is a Vancouver lawyer and Simon Fraser University adjunct professor who practices environmental and Aboriginal law.


2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election, Candidates, Kim Darwin
Kim Darwin is an independent mortgage consultant and former president of the Sechelt Chamber of Commerce. She served as vice chair of the Green Party of British Columbia's provincial council and stood as a candidate for Powell River-Sunshine Coast in 2017.


2020 Green Party of British Columbia leadership election, Candidates, Sonia Furstenau
Sonia Furstenau, 49, is the MLA for Cowichan Valley (2017–present) and deputy leader of the party (2016–present).


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election
The 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election took place between September 26 and October 3, 2020, to elect a leader to replace Elizabeth May, who resigned on November 4, 2019,  after leading the party for more than a decade and achieving a record three seats in Parliament in the 2019 federal election. Eight candidates were running to replace her. While the candidates offered different visions for the future of the party and make various policy proposals, they all agree that climate change is a serious issue, oppose the construction of new pipelines, support a guaranteed livable income, and propose some form of proportional representation in federal elections.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election
The Green Party of Canada had no polls conducting who the frontrunners of the race were, so instead the status was decided by the media based on how much money a candidate raised. In that sense, the two frontrunners were Annamie Paul and Dimitri Lascaris. Paul, an activist and lawyer from Toronto, won the election on the eighth round of voting. Her win was described as a win for "the more centrist camp".


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Election format
The vote will be held online between September 26 and October 3, as well as by mail-in ballot. All party members as of 11:59 p.m.  PDT on September 3, 2020, who are 14 years of age or older are eligible to vote. The vote is a one member, one vote preferential ballot with a none of the above option. The candidate with a majority of votes after a minimum of one ballot wins the leadership.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Election format
The Greens originally planned to announce the election results at the party's biennial convention in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, however the convention was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the candidates will gather in Ottawa, Ontario for the results, which will be announced online at 9:00 p.m. ADT on October 3.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Meryam Haddad
Meryam Haddad, 32, is an immigration lawyer residing in Montreal, Quebec. Haddad immigrated from Syria at the age of 5 and has been a resident of Montreal since. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa and was the candidate for Châteauguay—Lacolle in 2019. She is openly lesbian.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Meryam Haddad
In the lead-up to the 2020 British Columbia general election, Haddad criticized the Green Party of British Columbia over leader Sonia Furstenau's positions on defunding the police and Indigenous land rights, saying she would endorse the BC Ecosocialists over the Greens' provincial wing. She was disqualified from the election by the Green Party on September 22 for "intentionally undertaking an action that would bring the Green Party of Canada into disrepute." Haddad appealed and was reinstated two days later.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Courtney Howard
Courtney Howard, 41, is an emergency room physician residing in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She holds degrees from Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, and McGill University. She is the President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Amita Kuttner
Amita Kuttner, 30, is an astrophysicist residing on Lasqueti Island, British Columbia. They hold a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Cruz. During the 2019 federal election, Kuttner was the candidate for Burnaby North—Seymour. Following the election, they served as the Green Party's Science and Innovation Critic. They are also the co-founder and director of the Moonlight Institute. Kuttner is openly non-binary and pansexual, and uses they/them pronouns. They have refused to hold fundraising events with former leader Elizabeth May, saying the offer of assistance with fundraising does not address other systemic inequities in the race.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Dimitri Lascaris
Dimitri Lascaris, 56, is a lawyer and activist who was born in London, Ontario, and resides in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a law degree from the University of Toronto. He was the federal candidate for London West in 2015 and the Justice Critic in the Green Party's shadow cabinet in 2016, and is a former member of the Quebec Greens' National Executive.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Dimitri Lascaris
Lascaris' candidacy was initially rejected by the party's vetting committee, which was appealed. The appeal was accepted on June 2, and his candidacy was reinstated and approved.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, David Merner
David Merner, 58, is a retired lawyer residing on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He holds degrees from Harvard College, University of Alberta, Oxford University, and University of Toronto. Prior to his university studies, David was largely educated in French pre-schools and primary schools. He was the former Green Party Critic for Justice (2018–2020), and was the Green Party candidate for Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke in 2019. From 2012 to 2013, he was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada's British Columbia wing and was their candidate for Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke in 2015. Prior to entering politics, Merner was a lawyer at the Department of Justice and for the Privy Council Office as well as the Ministry of Attorney General of British Columbia. He was also the recipient of the Head of the Public Service Award from the Government of Canada.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Glen Murray
Glen Murray, 62, is a politician residing in  Winnipeg, Manitoba. He holds a degree in Urban Studies from Concordia University. He is the former Liberal MPP for Toronto Centre (2010–2017) and a former cabinet minister under Premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, most notably as the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change (2014–2017). Murray previously ran for the Liberals in Charleswood—St. James in 2004. In addition, he has also served as city councillor (1989–1998) and Mayor of Winnipeg (1998–2004). He has also been the CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute (2007–2010), and executive director of the Pembina Institute (2017–2018). He is openly gay.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Annamie Paul
Annamie Paul, 47, is a human rights lawyer residing in Toronto. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Public Administration degree from Princeton University. She was the Green Party Critic for Global Affairs (2019–2020) and the federal candidate in Toronto Centre in 2019. Paul is also the Green Party nominee for Toronto Centre in the October 26, 2020 federal by-election, having received permission from the Federal Council to do so as a leadership candidate.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates, Andrew West
Andrew West, 45, is a lawyer residing in  Ottawa, Ontario. He holds a degree in Environmental Law from University of Ottawa. He is the Green Party of Ontario critic for the Attorney General (2015–present). He stood as the provincial candidate in Carleton—Mississippi Mills in 2014, the federal candidate in Kanata—Carleton in 2015 and provincially in 2018, and as the provincial candidate in the 2020 Orléans by-election.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Don Elzer
Don Elzer is an environmental activist, businessman, and former journalist from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the founder and owner of Wildcraft Forest, a natural health company. He currently resides just outside of Lumby with his family.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Judy N. Green
Judy N. Green is a computer scientist, veteran and small business owner residing in Nova Scotia. She holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) from Acadia University and a Master of Computer Science from Carleton University. She was the candidate for West Nova in 2019.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Judy N. Green
Green's candidacy was rejected by the party's vetting committee on June 2, which was appealed. The appeal was accepted and her candidacy was reinstated on June 10. She withdrew on August 30 and endorsed David Merner.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Constantine Kritsonis
Constantine Kritsonis, 62, is a former Ontario representative on the Green Party Council. He stood as the Green Party of Canada candidate for York Centre in 2015, 2011, 2006, 2004 and 1997, and the Green Party of Ontario candidate in Oakwood in 1995.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Constantine Kritsonis
Withdrew following announcement of the election rules, citing the entrance fee at the time of announcement, $50,000, being too high. Later endorsed Dimitri Lascaris.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Dylan Perceval-Maxwell
Dylan Perceval-Maxwell is a Montreal activist and businessman. He was the Green Party candidate in Laurier—Sainte-Marie five times from 1997 to 2008 and the candidate in Alfred-Pellan in 2011. His 2006 campaign is the subject of the NFB documentary Democracy 4 Dummies.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Dylan Perceval-Maxwell
Disqualified by the party after inappropriate statements going against the Greens' core values.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Julie Tremblay-Cloutier
Julie Tremblay-Cloutier is a businesswoman from Oka who was the Green Party candidate for Mirabel in 2019, and a candidate for Oka City Council in 2017. Prior to entering politics, Tremblay-Cloutier was the head of a local pool and spa inspection company.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Julie Tremblay-Cloutier
Withdrew citing the leadership election rules, her lack of experience and resources to do fundraisers, and her concern that ideas and debates would become secondary to raising funds.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Alex Tyrrell
Alex Tyrrell, 32, is the leader of the Green Party of Quebec (2013–present), and was the provincial candidate for Verdun in 2018, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in 2014, and Jacques-Cartier in 2012. He was also the candidate in the Outremont, Chicoutimi, Gouin, Louis-Hébert, and Roberval by-elections in 2013, 2016, May 2017, October 2017 and 2018, respectively.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Candidates who withdrew or failed to qualify, Alex Tyrrell
Withdrew citing "Elizabeth May and her associates meddling in the election".


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Controversies, Endorsements
Former leader Elizabeth May was the subject of criticism over perceived implicit endorsements. Alex Tyrrell contended that May appeared with candidates at fundraisers to push them towards the lead. David Merner said it would be wiser for May to stay out of the contest completely. May responded that she was remaining neutral, but would help candidates from equity-seeking groups in fundraising efforts.


2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election, Controversies, Racism
Candidate Meryam Haddad accused fellow candidate Dylan Perceval-Maxwell of racism for comments he made during a TVOntario debate. When asked about calls to defund the police, Perceval-Maxwell suggested having police officers "give $20 to every person of colour they stop". Haddad called the suggestion racist, and said it would not further the goal of ending systemic racism. Perceval-Maxwell suggested that Haddad was "angry that a white person came up with an idea." On July 8, the party announced that Perceval-Maxwell was no longer a candidate for the leadership, citing statements "not aligned with the party's values."


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election
The 2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election took place in August 2020 to determine the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Jonathan Bartley and Siân Berry, who were elected on a joint ticket in 2018, were re-elected as co-leaders while Amelia Womack was re-elected as the party's deputy leader.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Background
Prior to 2008, the Green Party elected spokespeople called principal speakers instead of leaders. After a rule change, the party adopted a system of electing a leader or co-leaders every two years. If there are two co-leaders, a single deputy will be elected whereas if there is a single leader there are two deputies. In either case, the election is subject to the party's gender-balancing rules. The election was held under the instant-runoff voting electoral system, with voters able to select different preferences for each candidate.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign, Leadership
The incumbent co-leaders, Jonathan Bartley and Siân Berry, stood for re-election. Bartley was a Lambeth councillor and Berry was a London Assembly Member and the party's candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign, Leadership
Shahrar Ali, the party's home affairs spokesperson who had been one of the party's deputy leaders from 2014 to 2016, ran for the leadership. He had previously run against Bartley and Berry in 2018.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign, Leadership
One of the party's councillors in Solihull, the mixed martial artist Rosi Sexton, campaigned for the leadership as an "outsider". She said she wanted to focus on the party's electoral strategy and policy development processes.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign, Deputy leadership
Amelia Womack was first elected as the party's deputy leader in 2014 and was re-elected in each subsequent election.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign, Deputy leadership
Cleo Lake, a Bristol councillor for the party since 2016, contested the deputy leadership election saying she wanted to inspire more activists into politics. The writer and campaigner Tom Pashy, Nick Humberstone, and Andrea Carey Fuller also sought election as deputy leader.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Candidates, Declined and withdrawn
The former MEPs Alex Phillips and Magid Magid were speculated as potential leadership candidates but chose not to run. The former Parliamentary candidate James Booth initially stood as a deputy leadership candidate, but withdrew.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Results, Leader
Jonathan Bartley and Siân Berry were re-elected as co-leaders in the second round.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Results, Deputy leader
Amelia Womack was re-elected as deputy leader in the second round.


2020 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Aftermath
The turnout was the lowest for one of the party's leadership elections since Natalie Bennett's unopposed re-election in 2014. The re-elected co-leaders, Bartley and Berry, said they wanted to make gains in the upcoming 2021 United Kingdom local elections and promised to make the party the "main opposition" to the Conservative government.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums
The Green presidential debates are a series of political debates between the Green candidates for president in the United States 2020 presidential election.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates
In addition to Free & Equal's open presidential debate, six debates were sponsored by the Green Party and its affiliates.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, July 19, 2019 - Green Party of Minnesota
On July 19, 2019 the Green Party had its first presidential candidate forum for 2020 election, hosted by the Green Party of Minnesota in Dayton's Bluff, Saint Paul moderated by Danielle Swift, a candidate for St. Paul City Council


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, July 26, 2019 - Green Party PCSC
At the Green Party Annual National Meeting on July 26, 2019 in Salem, Massachusetts, the party's Presidential Campaign Support Committee (PCSC) sponsored a debate open to all candidates, regardless of recognition. The moderators were 2016 nominee Dr. Jill Stein and journalist Margaret Kimberley.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, August 11, 2019 - Missouri Green Party
The Missouri Green Party sponsored a presidential debate in Springfield, Missouri on August 11, 2019.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, September 20, 2019 - Green Party Black Caucus
The party's Black Caucus sponsored a debate in Muncie, Indiana on September 20, 2019.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, October 19, 2019 - Green Party of Idaho
The Green Party of Idaho sponsored a debate in Boise, Idaho with Jayson Prettyboy of Indigenous Idaho Alliance facilitating the event.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, December 7, 2019 - Green Party of California
The last debate held in 2019 was sponsored by the Green Party of California in Fresno with the "Not Safe For Wonks Podcast" facilitating the debate.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, Primary debates, March 4, 2020 - Free & Equal
Free & Equal Elections Foundation hosted its first presidential debate for 2020 on March 4, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. The event was open to all presidential candidates from all political parties, but the only Green candidates to participate were Howie Hawkins and Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, General election town hall forums and debates, July 11, 2020 - C-SPAN
C-SPAN's Washington Journal held a special Campaign 2020 segment for presumed Green nominee Howie Hawkins followed by a segment for Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen. Jesse J. Holland facilitated the virtual event, taking questions from live callers as is typical with the program's format.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, General election town hall forums and debates, September 24, 2020 - James Madison University
James Madiscon University's civic organization hosted a Green Party town hall on September 24, 2020. Green nominee Howie Hawkins and his running mate Angela Walker appeared in the event.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, General election town hall forums and debates, October 8, 2020 - Free & Equal
Free & Equal Elections Foundation hosted its second presidential debate on October 8, 2020 in Denver, Colorado, limiting participation to candidates on the ballot in at least 10 states. Green nominee Howie Hawkins was the only candidate in attendance with ballot access in enough states to conceivably win the electoral college.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, General election town hall forums and debates, October 24, 2020 - C-SPAN
C-SPAN's Washington Journal will again hold a special Campaign 2020 segment for presumed Green nominee Howie Hawkins followed by a segment for Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen, with Jesse J. Holland facilitating the virtual event.


2020 Green Party presidential debates and forums, General election town hall forums and debates, October 24, 2020 - Free & Equal
Free & Equal Elections Foundation hosted its third and final presidential debate on October 24, 2020, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Green nominee Howie Hawkins was again the only candidate in attendance with ballot access in enough states to conceivably win the electoral college.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries
The 2020 Green Party presidential primaries were a series of primary elections, caucuses and state conventions in which voters elected delegates to represent a candidate for the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States at the 2020 Green National Convention. The primaries, were held in numerous U.S. states on various dates from early spring into early summer of 2020, and featured elections publicly funded, concurrent with the Democratic Party and Republican Party primaries, and elections privately funded by the Green Party, held non-concurrently with the major party primaries.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries
There were 357 out of a possible 358 delegates elected to the Green National Convention, which took place over July 9 to July 12. A candidate needed a simple majority of these delegates to become the Green Party's nominee in the 2020 presidential election.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries
Howie Hawkins became the presumptive nominee on June 20 after passing the simple majority of delegates needed to win the nomination. Hawkins was nominated as the Green Party's presidential candidate on July 11.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Background, Former nominees
The former Green Party presidential nominees, in chronological order, are consumer advocate Ralph Nader, political activist David Cobb, congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and political activist Jill Stein. Both Nader and Stein received the nomination for president twice from the Green Party. The former vice presidential nominees of the Green Party are environmentalist and economist Winona LaDuke, political activist Pat LaMarche, organizer and hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente, National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Cheri Honkala, and human rights activist Ajamu Baraka. In 2016, LaDuke became the first Native American woman and Green Party member to receive an Electoral College vote for vice president.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Background, Former nominees
The vice presidential nominees from the preceding 2016 and 2012 elections, Baraka and Honkala respectively, have endorsed Howie Hawkins for president.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Candidates
This section lists candidates that have at some point been considered active by the party's Presidential Campaign Support Committee. Holding an active status does not mean the candidate has received official recognition from the party.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Candidates
On July 24, 2019, the Green Party of the United States officially recognized Howie Hawkins' campaign. Nearly a month later, Dario Hunter's campaign was also recognized. In February 2020, David Rolde's campaign met the requirements for recognition.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Candidates
The remaining candidates did not obtain formal recognition by meeting the established criteria by the party's Presidential Campaign Support Committee.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Candidates
Popular vote counts presented here are incomplete, as many states have reported their delegates but not the corresponding popular vote.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Candidates, Declined to be candidates
The following individuals were the subject of speculation as being possible candidates, but publicly denied interest in running.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Debates
The Green Party's Presidential Campaign Support Committee (PCSC) hosted a presidential forum on July 26 during the party's 2019 Annual National Meeting. All other debates and forums were organized by state Green Parties and caucuses.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Ballot access
Filing for the primaries began in October 2019.  indicates that the candidate is on the ballot for the upcoming primary contest,  indicates that the candidate is a recognized write-in candidate, and  indicates that the candidate will not appear on the ballot in that state's contest. Blanks indicate that a candidate is not yet known to be on the ballot but a final list of candidates eligible to appear on the ballot is not yet available. States that have not yet announced any candidates who are on the ballot are not included. The requirements to gain ballot access are determined either by the state government or the state party, depending on local election law.


2020 Green Party presidential primaries, Campaign finance
This is an overview of the money used by each campaign as it is reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Totals raised include loans from the candidate and transfers from other campaign committees.


2020 Greenhills hostage crisis
On March 2, 2020, 40-year-old Archie Paray, who worked as a security guard at the Greenhills shopping mall complex in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines took 55 people hostage at the administration office on the second floor of the Virra Mall. Paray was an employee of Safeguard Armor Security Corporation (SASCOR), and believed he was a subject of unjust termination. During the standoff, Paray demanded authorities to air his grievance against his former employers. Only one person was injured during the incident, and Paray was arrested after he freed the hostages.


2020 Greenhills hostage crisis, Background, Perpetrator
Archie Paray is a 40-year-old man who previously worked as a security guard at the Virra Mall as an employee under SASCOR.


2020 Greenhills hostage crisis, Background, Perpetrator
There were varying accounts regarding the circumstances of his employment with SASCOR. Paray expressed his belief that he was a subject of unjust termination. SASCOR general manager Oscar Hernandez disputed the claims, saying that Paray was not dismissed from employment and was supposed to be reassigned to a different location as part of the company's policy of rotating security guards.