2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II – Pool A (Wellington), Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II – Pool B (Wellington)
Pool B (Wellington) of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II – Pool B (Wellington), Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Play-offs
The play-offs of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I zonal competition involving teams from the Europe/Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the thirteen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. The top four teams advanced to the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs, while the bottom two teams were relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II for 2022.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Play-offs, Promotional play-offs
The first-placed and second-placed teams of each pool played against one another in a head-to-head round. The winners of each round advanced to the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Play-offs, Relegation play-offs
The last-placed teams of each pool played against one another in a head-to-head round. The losers of each tie were relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2022.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool A (Esch-sur-Alzette)
Pool A (Esch-sur-Alzette) of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool A (Esch-sur-Alzette), Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Fed Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool A (Tallinn)
Pool A (Tallinn) of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool A (Tallinn), Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Fed Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B (Esch-sur-Alzette)
Pool B (Esch-sur-Alzette) of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B (Esch-sur-Alzette), Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Fed Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B (Tallinn)
Pool B (Tallinn) of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advancement to 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B (Tallinn), Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Fed Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs
The play-offs of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II were the final stages of the Group II zonal competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the eight teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II. The top two teams advanced to Group I, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Group III for 2022.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs, Promotional play-offs
The first-placed teams of each pool played against the second-placed teams of the other pool in head-to-head rounds. The winner of each round advanced to the 2022 Europe/Africa Zone Group I.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs, Relegation play-offs
The third-placed and fourth-placed teams of the pools played against each other in a head-to-head round. The losers were relegated to the 2022 Europe/Africa Zone Group III.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Pool A
Pool A of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Pool A, Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Pool B
Pool B of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Pool B, Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs
The 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs was originally scheduled to be held from 17 to 18 April 2020 but was postponed to the following year due to COVID-19. The eight winners of this round will qualify for the 2022 Billie Jean King Cup  Qualifying Round while the eight losers will contest their respective regional Group I event in 2022.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs, Teams
Sixteen teams will play for eight spots in the 2021 Qualifying Round, in series decided on a home and away basis.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs, Teams
Eight winners will advance to the 2021 Qualifying Round and eight losers will contest their respective regional Group I event in 2021.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round
The 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round was played on 7–8 February. The eight winners of this round qualified for the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Budapest.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Teams
Sixteen teams played for eight spots in the Finals, in series decided on a home and away basis.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Teams
The 8 losing teams from the qualifying round played at the Group I of the corresponding continental zone the following February.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, United States vs. Latvia
Team nominations: United States: Sofia Kenin, Serena Williams, Alison Riske, Coco Gauff, Bethanie Mattek-Sands  Latvia: Jeļena Ostapenko, Anastasija Sevastova, Diāna Marcinkēviča, Daniela Vismane


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Netherlands vs. Belarus
Team nominations: Netherlands: Kiki Bertens, Arantxa Rus, Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, Indy de Vroome, Demi Schuurs  Belarus: Aryna Sabalenka, Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Olga Govortsova, Anna Kubareva, Lidziya Marozava


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Romania vs. Russia
Team nominations: Romania: Ana Bogdan, Irina Bara, Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Jaqueline Cristian, Raluca Olaru  Russia: Ekaterina Alexandrova, Veronika Kudermetova, Anna Blinkova, Anna Kalinskaya


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Brazil vs. Germany
Team nominations:  Brazil: Gabriela Cé, Teliana Pereira, Laura Pigossi, Carolina Alves, Luisa Stefani Germany: Laura Siegemund, Tatjana Maria, Anna-Lena Friedsam, Antonia Lottner


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Spain vs. Japan
Team nominations:  Spain: Carla Suárez Navarro, Sara Sorribes Tormo, Aliona Bolsova, Lara Arruabarrena, Georgina García Pérez  Japan: Naomi Osaka, Misaki Doi, Kurumi Nara, Ena Shibahara, Shuko Aoyama


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Switzerland vs. Canada
Team nominations:   Switzerland: Belinda Bencic, Jil Teichmann, Viktorija Golubic, Stefanie Vögele, Timea Bacsinszky  Canada: Bianca Andreescu, Leylah Annie Fernandez, Eugenie Bouchard, Gabriela Dabrowski


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Belgium vs. Kazakhstan
Team nominations:  Belgium: Elise Mertens, Kirsten Flipkens, Greet Minnen, Ysaline Bonaventure  Kazakhstan: Yulia Putintseva, Zarina Diyas, Anna Danilina, Yaroslava Shvedova


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying Round, Detailed results, Slovakia vs. Great Britain
Team nominations:  Slovakia: Viktória Kužmová, Jana Čepelová, Magdaléna Rybáriková, Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Rebecca Šramková  Great Britain: Heather Watson, Harriet Dart, Naiktha Bains, Katie Swan, Emma Raducanu


2020 BinckBank Tour
The 2020 BinckBank Tour was a road cycling stage race that was originally scheduled to take place between 31 August and 6 September 2020 in Belgium. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the race was postponed by almost a month. It started on 29 September 2020 and ended on 3 October 2020. It was the 16th edition of the BinckBank Tour and was part of the 2020 UCI World Tour.


2020 BinckBank Tour, Teams
Twenty-four teams participated in the 2020 edition. All nineteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team into the race. In addition, 5 wildcards were awarded to UCI ProTeams. Each team was allowed to enter up to seven riders; Astana, Groupama–FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers (with six each), and Movistar Team (with five) were the only teams not to do so. 94 of the 163 riders in the race finished.


2020 BinckBank Tour, Stages, Stage 2
Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands, race organizers were forced to cancel stage 2, which took place entirely within in the Netherlands.


2020 BinckBank Tour, Stages, Stage 3
Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands, race organizers were forced to reroute stage 3, which would have started in Philippine (Netherlands). Stage 3 started and finished in Aalter (Belgium), and riders completed seven laps of the finishing circuit instead of the original three.


2020 BinckBank Tour, Stages, Stage 4
Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands, race organizers were forced to reroute stage 4, which would have started in Riemst (Belgium) and finished in Sittard-Geleen (Netherlands). Stage 4 became an individual time trial starting and finishing in Riemst.


2020 Bingöl earthquake
The 2020 Bingöl earthquake occurred at 17:24 local time (14:24 UTC) on 14 June in Turkey. The magnitude of the earthquake was determined to be 5.8 Mw. The earthquake's epicentre was close to the Kaynarpınar village in Karlıova, Bingöl and felt in the neighbouring provinces of Erzurum, Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Muş. 392 aftershocks were detected following the earthquake, with the largest being a 5.5 Mw  event.


2020 Bingöl earthquake, Damage
The earthquake caused damage in Kaynarpınar village of Karlıova and Elmalı and Dinarbey villages of Yedisu. 10 houses in Elmalı and Dinarbey collapsed and injured 21 people while a police station in Kaynarpınar collapsed killing 1 village guard.


2020 Birmingham Bowl
The 2020 Birmingham Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 2020, with kickoff at 3:00 p.m. EST (2:00 p.m. local CST) on ESPN. It was the 14th edition of the Birmingham Bowl, and was one of the 2019–20 bowl games concluding the 2019 FBS football season. Sponsored by the TicketSmarter ticket sales company, the game was officially known as the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl.


2020 Birmingham Bowl
With 7:55 remaining in the first quarter, the game was delayed due to lightning. This was Boston College's second consecutive bowl game that has been impacted by weather, as the 2018 First Responder Bowl (in which Boston College played Boise State) was canceled and ruled a no contest due to inclement weather. The delay lasted a total of 91 minutes before the game resumed at 4:55 p.m. EST.


2020 Birmingham Bowl, Teams
The game featured the Boston College Eagles of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) going up against the Cincinnati Bearcats of the American Athletic Conference (The American). This was the eighth overall meeting between the two programs; the Eagles led the all-time series, 4–3.


2020 Birmingham Bowl, Teams, Boston College Eagles
Boston College entered the game with a 6–6 record (4–4 in conference). They finished in a three-way tie for third place in the ACC's Atlantic Division. The Eagles lost to both ranked opponents they faced, Clemson and Notre Dame. This was the first Birmingham Bowl appearance for Boston College.


2020 Birmingham Bowl, Teams, Cincinnati Bearcats
Cincinnati entered the game with a 10–3 record (7–1 in conference). They finished atop the East Division of The American, then lost the AAC Championship Game to Memphis, 29–24. The Bearcats were 1–3 against ranked opponents, defeating UCF while falling to Ohio State and Memphis twice. This was Cincinnati's second Birmingham Bowl; their 2007 team won the then-PapaJohns.com Bowl over Southern Miss, 31–21.


2020 Birmingham Legion FC season
The 2020 Birmingham Legion FC season was the club's second season of existence and their second in the USL Championship, the second tier of American soccer. This article covers the period from November 18, 2019, the day after the 2019 USL-C Playoff Final, to the conclusion of the 2020 USL-C Playoff Final, scheduled for November 12–16, 2020.


2020 Birmingham Legion FC season, Competitions, USL Championship, Match results
In the preparations for the resumption of league play following the shutdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Birmingham's schedule was announced on July 7.


2020 Birmingham Legion FC season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
As a USL Championship club, Birmingham will enter the competition in the Second Round, to be played April 7–9.


2020 Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours for 2020 are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The honours for New Zealand were announced on 1 June, and for Australia on 8 June.


2020 Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom would normally have been announced in June, but were delayed until the Autumn because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The honours list was  released on 10 October 2020.


2020 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom
Below are the individuals appointed by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of the United Kingdom with honours within her own gift, and with the advice of the Government for other honours.


2020 Birthday Honours, Australia
The 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 8 June 2020 by the Governor-General, David Hurley.


2020 Birthday Honours, New Zealand
The 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for New Zealand were announced on 1 June 2020.


2020 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 1 June 2020.


2020 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


2020 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
The 2020 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 96th running of the George E. Mitchell Stakes (renamed by Pimlico in 2020). The race took place on October 3, 2020, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network (NBCSN). Ridden by jockey Daniel Centeno, Miss Marissa won the race by a neck runner-up Bonny South. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club supplied a purse of $250,000 for the 96th running. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:48.08. The race was run behind closed doors.


2020 Blackwater Elite season
The 2020 Blackwater Elite season is the 6th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2020 Blaublitz Akita season
2020 Blaublitz Akita season. The annual club slogan is "結". "Chuggernaut" Akita clinched its second J3 League title with six games to spare after a 2-0 win over Gamba Osaka U-23, and have been promoted to J2 on November 18, 2020. Blaublitz has earned the 4th seed in the Emperor's Cup.


2020 Blaublitz Akita season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200
The 2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 was the 9th stock car race of the 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series season, and the 20th iteration of the event. The race was originally supposed to be held on May 30, 2020 but was postponed to July 24, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race was held in Kansas City, Kansas at Kansas Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) permanent D-shaped oval racetrack. The race took the scheduled 134 laps to complete.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200
At race's end, Austin Hill of Hattori Racing Enterprises would dominate the race and win, the 5th win of his career in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, and the first of the season. To fill the podium, Brett Moffitt of GMS Racing and Grant Enfinger of ThorSport Racing would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200, Background
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The NTT IndyCar Series also raced there until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200, Background, Entry list
*Originally, Viens was slated to drive the #49, but the driver would change to Ray Ciccarelli for unknown reasons. As a result, the #83 would withdraw.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200, Starting lineup
The starting lineup was determined by a random draw. Christian Eckes of Kyle Busch Motorsports would draw for the pole.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500
The 2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race that was originally scheduled to be held on May 9, 2020, and was rescheduled to June 10, 2020, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526 mi (0.847 km) paperclip-shaped short track, it was the 11th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, Report, Background
Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles (0.847 km) in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Cup Series. The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only remaining race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the race will be held behind closed doors with no fans in attendance with only essential staff present, guidelines for social distancing and use of the protective equipment equipped by team staff, and logging to help with the contact tracing efforts.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, Qualifying
Ryan Blaney was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a random draw.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, Media, Television
Fox Sports covered their 20th race at the Martinsville Speedway. Mike Joy and nine-time Martinsville winner Jeff Gordon will cover the race from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Regan Smith handled the pit road duties. Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.


2020 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden, Dave Moody and seven-time Martinsville winner Rusty Wallace called the race in the booth as the cars raced down the frontstretch. Dillon Welch called the race from atop the turn 3 stands as the field raced down the backstretch. Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.


2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels
The 2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels were a pair of NASCAR Cup Series stock car races held on February 13, 2020, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, they were the qualifying races for the 2020 Daytona 500.


2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels, Report, Background
Daytona International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four–turn superspeedway that is 2.5-mile (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.


2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels, Qualifying
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.253 and a speed of 194.582 mph (313.149 km/h).


2020 Bob Willis Trophy
The 2020 Bob Willis Trophy  was a first-class cricket tournament held in the 2020 English cricket season, and the inaugural edition of the Bob Willis Trophy. It was separate from the County Championship, which was not held in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The eighteen county cricket teams were split into three regional groups of six, with the two group winners with the most points advancing to a final held at Lord's. The maximum number of overs bowled in a day was reduced from 96 to 90, and the team's first innings could be no longer than 120 overs.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy
After a delay due to the pandemic, counties passed a majority vote to start the season on 1 August 2020, with the final starting on 23 September 2020.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy
In the final round of matches, the game between Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire was abandoned at lunch on the first day, after a member of the Northamptonshire squad provided a positive test for COVID-19. The match was recorded as a draw, with Northamptonshire taking ten points, and Gloucestershire eight. Neither side were in contention to reach the final of the tournament.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy
Essex became the first team to qualify for the final of the tournament, after they beat Middlesex by nine wickets in their final match, and Derbyshire failed to gain a batting point in their match against Lancashire. Somerset became the second team to qualify for the final after they beat Worcestershire by 60 runs in their fifth match of the tournament. The final finished as a draw, with Essex winning the tournament, after securing a lead in the first innings of the match.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy
In October 2020, Sussex were deducted 24 points after bowler Mitchell Claydon was found guilty of a ball tampering offence. Claydon was adjudged to have applied hand sanitiser to the ball during a game against Middlesex in August. The player also received a nine-game ban.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy
While it was promoted as being a one-off competition, the new structure of three groups of six was retained for the 2021 County Championship.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy, Background
The first round of matches in the County Championship were originally scheduled to start on 12 April, with the final round of matches finishing on 25 September. However in March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that the season would be delayed until at least 28 May 2020. The following month, Abu Dhabi Cricket (ADC) suggested using facilities in the United Arab Emirates between October and January as a possible solution to playing some fixtures. On 24 April 2020, the ECB confirmed that no professional cricket would be played in England before 1 July 2020. As a result of the pandemic, the vast majority of clubs placed players and staff on furlough.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy, Background
In late May 2020, the ECB looked at the idea of starting the County Championship in August, split into three groups of six teams, with a final at Lord's. The ECB also confirmed that no domestic cricket would be played before 1 August 2020. In June 2020, some clubs raised concerns about the logistics of travelling and the financial viability of playing first-class cricket, with 50-over matches being a more realistic possibility. On 29 June 2020, the ECB confirmed that the domestic cricket season would begin on 1 August 2020, with the format to be agreed in early July. On 7 July 2020, the majority of counties voted to start the season on 1 August 2020.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy, Background
On 26 July 2020, a crowd of 1,000 spectators were allowed to watch a test event at The Oval in London, the first time people had been to see a live cricket match since the start of the pandemic. Following the success of the trial, a pilot scheme would have allowed up to 2,500 fans to attend the first two days of play of Surrey and Warwickshire's first matches. However, on 31 July 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced crowds would not be allowed to attend sporting events following an increase in COVID-19 infection rates.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy, Fixtures
The fixtures for the tournament were announced on 24 July 2020. Following local COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Leicester, Leicestershire County Cricket Club's first home fixture was moved to a neutral venue.


2020 Bob Willis Trophy, Standings
Teams receive 16 points for a win and 8 for a draw or tie. Bonus points (a maximum of 5 batting points and 3 bowling points) may be scored during the first 110 overs of each team's first innings.


2020 Boca Raton Bowl
The 2020 Boca Raton Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 22, 2020, with kickoff at for 7:00 p.m. EST on ESPN. It was the seventh edition of the Boca Raton Bowl, and was one of the 2020–21 bowl games concluding the 2020 FBS football season. Sponsored by roofing repair company RoofClaim.com, the game was officially known as the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl.


2020 Boca Raton Bowl, Teams
The 2020 Boca Raton Bowl was contested by the BYU Cougars, who competed as an independent, and the UCF Knights, from the American Athletic Conference. The two teams had met twice previously, with the series tied 1–1. The teams' last meeting had been in 2014; UCF won, 31–24. This was the teams' first meeting in a bowl game, and each team's first appearance in the Boca Raton Bowl.


2020 Boca Raton Bowl, Teams, BYU
On December 14, BYU accepted a bid to the bowl. The Cougars entered the bowl with a record of 10–1; they were ranked as high as number 8 in the AP Poll during the season.


2020 Boca Raton Bowl, Teams, UCF
On December 7, UCF of The American accepted a bid to the bowl. The Knights entered the bowl with a record of 6–3 (5–3 in conference play); they were ranked as high as number 11 in the AP Poll during the season.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election
The 2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election was held between 7 and 10 December 2020  to elect members to the Bodoland Territorial Council, the autonomous district council for the Bodoland Territorial Region in India. All 40 elected seats in the council were up for election.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Background
In the previous council, BPF and BJP were in an asymmetric alliance with the BPF as the major partner. The BJP on the other hand was in power at the state and the center.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Scheduled date and postponement
The elections were due to be held on 4 April 2020 but were postponed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Scheduled date and postponement
The term of the current council was due to expire on 27 April 2020. There were two possible options for the council after that date, the term of the current council could be extended by up to six months or the Bodoland Territorial Region could be placed under President's rule by the Governor of Assam. On 27 April 2020, it was announced that Bodoland would come under Governor's rule until a new council is elected.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Election schedule
Elections to 40 seats in Bodoland Territorial council were held in two phases.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Voting
During phase 1, Assam State election Commission puts voting percentage at 77%.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Results
No party has won an majority in the elections with BPF emerging as the single largest party.


2020 Bodoland Territorial Council election, Post-election executive formation
On 13 December, the BJP announced that it has agreed to support efforts by the UPPL to form an executive. The leader of the UPPL, Pramod Boro, became the new Chief Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council on 15 December.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season
The 2020 League of Ireland season was Bohemian Football Club's 130th year in their history and their 36th consecutive season in the League of Ireland Premier Division since it became the top tier of Irish football. Bohemians were due to participate in both national domestic cup competitions this season, namely the FAI Cup and the EA Sports Cup. The latter was deferred indefinitely due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Bohemians competed in the UEFA Europa League for the first time in seven years as they qualified with a third-place finish the previous season.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season
Bohs were drawn against arch-rivals Shamrock Rovers in an opening day Dublin Derby when fixtures for the 2020 season were released in late December 2019. They would go on to finish as Runners up in the Premier Division, securing European football for the second consecutive year.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season
The club announced record-high sales for season tickets and memberships prior to the start of their league campaign. However, all football activity in the Republic of Ireland was halted in March due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Football Association of Ireland announced a contingency plan with a view to completing the domestic season at a later date, with a reduced number of games. Matches after the restart were played without fans in attendance.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season, Club, Kits
Bohemians announced a new four-year partnership with Des Kelly Interiors as new main sponsors, beginning with the 2020 season. Manufactured by O'Neills, the red and black striped shirt features a special gold crest and has the club's name written in the Irish language. This is to mark the club's 130th anniversary and their 100th season in the League of Ireland.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season, Club, Kits
On 12 February 2020 Bohemians announced a new away kit, a white jersey with diagonal red and black pinstripes. It includes a Refugees Welcome logo on the chest and is in conjunction with Amnesty International.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season, Club, Kits
On 16 March 2020, Bohs launched a blue and navy striped third kit featuring a yellow trim. This kit also includes the commemorative inscriptions for the 130 year anniversary of the club. This kit was selected for use in Bohemians UEFA Europa League campaign.


2020 Bohemian F.C. season, Statistics, Captains
Last updated: 20 November 2020Source: Competitive match reports. Competitive matches onlyMatches started as captain onlyCountry: FIFA nationality; No. : Squad number; P: Position; Name: Player name; No. Games: Number of games started as captain.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team
The 2020 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Broncos played their home games at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho, as members of the Mountain West Conference. They were led by seventh-year head coach Bryan Harsin.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team
After the season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then reinstated, the Broncos played seven games, compiling a 5–2 record (5–0 in conference play). The team then lost to San Jose State in the Mountain West Championship Game. On December 20, the team announced that it had decided to forgo playing in any bowl game. The program had appeared in 18 consecutive bowl games, dating back to the 2002 Humanitarian Bowl.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team
On December 22, head coach Bryan Harsin resigned to become the head coach at Auburn. He finished at Boise State with a seven-year record of 69–19.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Previous season
The Broncos finished the 2019 season 12–2, 8–0 in Mountain West, becoming champions of the Mountain Division. They represented the Mountain Division in the Mountain West Championship Game where they defeated Hawaii. They were invited to the Las Vegas Bowl where they lost to Washington.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Schedule
Boise State announced its 2020 football schedule on February 27, 2020. The 2020 schedule consisted of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. On August 10, 2020, the Mountain West Conference announced the suspension of the football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new schedule was released by the Mountain West on October 1, 2020.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Chaplain controversy
Following a game against the Brigham Young University Cougars on November 6, 2020, most of the players of both teams knelt midfield at Boise's Albertsons Stadium. Images of the unusual prayer circulated on social media and the story was covered by Deseret News who reported that the prayer was led by Boise State's team chaplain Pastor Mark Thornton. "We started with prayer, we're going to end with prayer, and we're going to give the glory to God," said Thornton. The chaplain had regularly lead prayer on the field after games and held chapel the night before.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Chaplain controversy
The story of Boise State, a public university, having an official team chaplain organizing religious services drew the attention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The foundation sent a letter to Boise State President Marlene Tromp stating that employing a chaplain was a constitutional violation and that it could make some student athletes feel coerced into prayers against their wishes.


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Chaplain controversy
FFRF Staff Attorney Christopher Line explained, "Government chaplains may only exist as an accommodation of a public employee’s religious beliefs when the government makes it difficult or impossible to seek out private ministries...Boise State football players have no government-imposed burden on their religion, so there is no need — or legitimate legal reason — for Boise State to provide a chaplain for them."


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Chaplain controversy
Boise State responded by eliminating the official chaplain position and pledged to take measures to "resolve the issue and establish appropriate constitutional boundaries." President Trump emphasized the importance of students' rights to make their own choices about their spiritual lives, telling Deseret News, "Boise State will always support our students’ right to pray, should they wish to do so. As a public institution, we cannot sponsor or endorse a specific religious advisor."


2020 Boise State Broncos football team, Chaplain controversy
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit law firm promoting religious accommodationism, criticized the FFRF after Boise State's pledge to reform. Becket Fund vice president Luke Goodrich called the FFRF "bullies" and erroneously claimed that it had forced a Kansas middle school to end their Christmas toy drive. "Many public universities have team chaplains, and it’s not only constitutional but good to accommodate players’ voluntary religious practices in this way," said Goodrich.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season
The 2020 Bolivian Primera División season, known as the 2020 Copa Tigo season for sponsorship reasons, was the 43rd season of the División Profesional del Fútbol Boliviano, Bolivia's top-flight football league and the third season under División de Fútbol Profesional management. The season started on 21 January 2020 and ended on 31 December 2020. Jorge Wilstermann were the defending champions, having won the 2019 Clausura tournament.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season
Always Ready won their first title in the División Profesional and third overall (first since 1957) in the top flight of Bolivian football with a 2–0 victory over Nacional Potosí on the twenty-sixth and final matchday of the Torneo Apertura, played on 31 December.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season
The tournament was suspended from 16 March to 27 November due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 30 October 2020, Bolivia was the only one of CONMEBOL's member associations to have its top-tier football league still suspended due to the pandemic.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Teams
The number of teams for the 2020 season remained the same as the previous season. Destroyers were relegated to the Copa Simón Bolívar after finishing in last place of the aggregate table in the previous season, with Sport Boys being disaffiliated from the league after failing to show up for their last game of the season. Both teams were replaced by Atlético Palmaflor and Real Santa Cruz, the 2019 Copa Simón Bolívar champions and runners-up, respectively.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 16 March, the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) decided to suspend both the División Profesional and División Aficionados tournaments until 31 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the suspension being extended until the second semester of 2020 due to the extension of the lockdown and the ban on sporting activities until 31 May enacted by the Bolivian interim government.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 2 June, the FBF presented to the Bolivian interim government a proposal to resume activities for both the national team and the football league, with the national team starting training sessions from 15 June and the 14 División Profesional teams in July, resuming the tournament in August, however, the government only approved the biosecurity protocols submitted by the FBF on 25 July, authorizing Bolívar and Jorge Wilstermann to resume their training sessions on account of their involvement in the 2020 Copa Libertadores which was scheduled to resume in September, while the other 12 División Profesional clubs had to submit their protocols to the Bolivian Society of Sports Medicine for their approval.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 5 June, in a virtual meeting of the Superior Council of the División Profesional, Bolívar's chairman Marcelo Claure proposed to resume and conclude the Torneo Apertura in Cochabamba over three weeks, a proposal backed by Aurora and Jorge Wilstermann. In response to this proposal, FBF's Director of Competitions Adrián Monje stated that they would need seven stadiums for it to be implemented and the lack of places to train was a major limitation.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 12 August, the FBF presented a new proposal to resume the Torneo Apertura on 21 or 25 October, pending the development of the pandemic in the country, however, on 15 August the Ministry of Health through their General Manager of Hospitals René Sahonero stated that the Bolivian government was aiming at a resumption of the competition in the first week of November. Sahonero also stated that should the rates of COVID-19 infection failed to decrease by then, no tournament could be played for the remainder of the year.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 8 September, the Bolivian government through its Vice-Minister of Sports Augusto Chávez stated that the Bolivian government would guarantee the return to activity of the División Profesional on the proposed deadlines of 21 or 25 October, as long as the 14 clubs of the league came to an agreement on a date for resumption, met biosecurity protocols, and matches were played behind closed doors. As of that day, six clubs had already resumed their training sessions: Bolívar, Jorge Wilstermann, Oriente Petrolero, Blooming, Royal Pari, and Guabirá.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
However, on 8 October, FBF's Director of Competitions Adrián Monje stated that they had not yet received an official approval from the Bolivian central government to resume the competition, in spite of the fact that some local authorities were willing to grant their permission for matches to be played within their jurisdictions.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The death of FBF president César Salinas by COVID-19 on 19 July and the subsequent institutional crisis triggered by this event and the inability to come to an agreement on an interim president were also factors contributing to the delay in the resumption of the competition, as the 14 División Profesional clubs split into two groups backing different members of the FBF's Council as interims and failed to agree on a possible date of return to competition as both sides repeatedly boycotted and prevented the Superior Council of the División Profesional from taking place due to lack of quorum. A Superior Council meeting scheduled for 5 November in La Paz, called by both claimants to the FBF's interim presidency Marcos Rodríguez and Roberto Blanco, was cancelled by the former due to a civic strike which was also scheduled on that day in the city.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 11 November, it was revealed that the FBF was considering two proposals to return to competition: one of them was resuming the tournament on 22 November and ending on 13 January 2021, while the other one was resuming on 29 November and concluding the season on 23 January 2021, with the Torneo Apertura being the only competition to be played for the remainder of the season. That same day, Bolívar chairman Marcelo Claure announced that CONMEBOL would not accept any Bolivian entrants into the 2021 Copa Libertadores or Copa Sudamericana and the FBF would face sanctions in case league competition did not resume.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
On 24 November, in a meeting of the Superior Council of the División Profesional held in La Paz, the representatives of the 14 clubs voted to resume the season starting from 28 November with the thirteenth matchday of the Torneo Apertura and ending on 31 December 2020 with the last matchday, meaning that 98 matches were to be played in 32 days. Furthermore, it was decided that no clubs would be relegated at the end of the season.


2020 Bolivian Primera División season, Torneo Clausura
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of the Torneo Apertura which was extended for 8 months, as well as the need to end the season in the calendar year, the Torneo Clausura which is usually scheduled for the second half of the year was cancelled.


2020 Bolivian general election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 18 October 2020 for President, Vice-President, and all seats in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party was elected president in a landslide, winning 55% of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. The results of the election superseded the disputed results of the October 2019 elections, which were annulled during a prolonged political crisis.


2020 Bolivian general election
Although the winning party received a higher proportion of the vote in 2020 than in the previous annulled elections, for the first time since 2009 the winning party did not have a two-thirds majority in the Legislative Assembly, meaning that some functions would require cross-party support. For the first time, the Senate will contain a majority of female senators.


2020 Bolivian general election
Electoral authorities had initially scheduled the elections for 3 May 2020. However, they were postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, first to 6 September 2020 and then to 18 October 2020. The latter date was ratified by a 13 August 2020 law following protests and blockades against the previous postponements.


2020 Bolivian general election
The parties or alliances contesting the election were the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), which governed before 2019, Civic Community (CC), the newly formed Creemos (Let's create, We believe) alliance, the Front for Victory, and the National Action Party (PAN-BOL). Presidential candidates Carlos Mesa (CC) and Chi Hyun Chung (FPV) were the second and third-place finishers, respectively, in the annulled 2019 presidential election. Luis Arce was the MAS candidate, replacing former MAS president Evo Morales. Feliciano Mamani replaced Ruth Nina as candidate for PAN-BOL. Interim president Jeanine Áñez, former president Jorge Quiroga, and María de la Cruz Bayá all launched presidential candidacies, but withdrew before the election was held.


2020 Bolivian general election
The official count took several days to complete. Independent quick-counts of the vote conducted by polling firms Ciesmori and Mi Voto Cuenta (My Vote Counts) on the morning of 19 October both indicated that Arce had won a majority of the vote, enough to win the election outright without requiring a runoff round. Interim President Áñez confirmed this on Twitter shortly after, and runner-up Mesa and former president Quiroga both indicated their acceptance of the preliminary results later that day.


2020 Bolivian general election
Official observers from the UN, UNIORE and the OAS all stated that there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, 2019 election
On 10 November 2019, after 19 days of civil protests following the disputed election results of October 2019 and the release of a report from the OAS, which alleged irregularities in the electoral process, the military and the police of Bolivia forced president Morales to resign. After General Williams Kaliman made the military's request for Morales's resignation public, Morales complied, accompanied by other resignations by high-level politicians throughout the day, some citing fears for the safety of their families. The government of Mexico offered political asylum to Morales the following day, which Morales accepted a day afterwards.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, 2019 election
As Vice-President Álvaro García Linera, President of the Senate Adriana Salvatierra and President of the Chamber of Deputies Víctor Borda, had already resigned, there were no constitutionally-designated successors. The First Vice President of the Senate, Rubén Medinaceli, had also resigned. Jeanine Áñez, the Second Vice President of the Senate, was the highest-ranking official still in office and she announced that she would be willing to ascend to the presidency on an interim basis in order to call for new elections.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, 2019 election
On 12 November 2019 Áñez took temporary charge of the Senate of Bolivia, thereby formally placing herself in the line of succession as acting President of the Senate, and on this basis proceeded to declare herself the Constitutional President of the country. Her accession to office was formally legitimized by a decision of the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal later the same day, which stated that she had lawfully assumed office ipso facto, in accordance with the precedent laid out by Constitutional Declaration 0003/01 of 31 July 2001. Many in Bolivia protested against Añez becoming president, which led to violent clashes between them and the police. Several MAS supporters were killed by the police during confrontations in Senkata and Sacaba. The Argentine delegation in Bolivia and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights described these as massacres.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, 2019 election
On 20 November, Evo Morales offered to not run as a presidential candidate if he was allowed to return to Bolivia and conclude his term.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, 2019 election
In the same day, the interim government presented a bill that aimed to forge a path to new elections. The two chambers of congress were expected to debate the bill which would annul the 20 October election and appoint a new electoral board within 15 days of its passage, paving the way for a new vote. The bill, drafted jointly by Morales' Movement for Socialism (MAS) and anti-Morales legislators, was approved on 23 November; it prohibited Morales from participating in the fresh election.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, 2019 election
In exchange, Áñez's government agreed to withdraw the armed forces from all protest areas (although some servicemen were still permitted to stay at some state companies to "prevent vandalism"), to revoke her decree which granted the army immunity from criminal prosecution, to release arrested pro-Morales protesters, to protect lawmakers and social leaders from attacks and to provide compensation for the families of those killed during the crisis. She approved the bill shortly thereafter.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Candidacy of Áñez
On 5 December, Áñez stated that she would not be a candidate or support any candidate. This was reiterated on 15 January 2020 by Minister for the Presidency Yerko Núñez, who said that "[Áñez] will not be a candidate. The President has stated on several occasions, she will not be a candidate, this is a government of peace, transition, and management because you can not stop the state apparatus."


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Candidacy of Áñez
Despite her previous statements, Áñez announced her candidacy on 24 January 2020. A survey reported in the Bolivian newspaper Los Tiempos indicated that, while 43% of respondents considered her to have done a "good or very good" job as interim president (compared to 27% bad or very bad), only 24% of respondents believed that she should stand as a candidate in the upcoming elections. In the same poll, 63% of respondents agreed with the statement that "as interim president, Jeanine Áñez should call elections and not take advantage of her power to become a presidential candidate." On 17 September 2020, following a poll that put Arce in first place with above 40% support, and Áñez in fourth place, Áñez announced the end of her candidacy, citing the risk that the vote would be split between the conservative candidates.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Election postponement and blockades
In March 2020, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced the election and preparatory activities would be postponed due to emergency restrictions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. All major parties agreed with this measure and that a date for the new election would be chosen by the legislative assembly based on a public health evaluation at a later date.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Election postponement and blockades
On 22 June 2020, Áñez approved a law passed by both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to set 6 September 2020 as the date for the election, with elected authorities in place by mid-to-late November 2020.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Election postponement and blockades
On 23 July 2020, the TSE announced that the election would be postponed to 18 October 2020 due to medical reports that the pandemic would have its highest peaks in late August and early September. Evo Morales condemned the delays, calling them an unconstitutional attempt by Áñez to remain in power, and some groups, including the Bolivian Workers' Center, carried out protests and blockades. The electoral body, experts and MAS politicians disagreed on the unconstitutionality of the decision.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Election postponement and blockades
MAS supporters responded to the election postponement by protesting and, on 3 August, started an indefinite strike, blocking highways in El Alto and other party strongholds. Former president of Bolivia, Jaime Paz Zamora of the Revolutionary Left Movement, criticised Morales for supporting the blockades, which resulted in the deaths of 33 coronavirus patients due to lack of oxygen. Morales later accepted the decision of the TSE after rising opposition to the protests. On 10 August, Morales called for dialogue and asked MAS supporters to "consider" the TSE's plan for an election on 18 October with the UN as observer.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Election postponement and blockades
A survey by Mercados y Muestras showed that 59% of those surveyed believed that MAS were behind the medicine and food shortages to the cities and 65% believed that the organisers of the blockades should face prosecution. MAS Vice President Orlando Zurita said the road blockades were established by MAS. In some places, dynamite was used to destroy the highway and two soldiers were severely beaten by protestors. In Santa Cruz, Potosí, Cochabamba and other areas of the country, protesters were reported to be armed and carried out violence against police and property. On 10 August, Añez asked the La Paz prosecutor general's office to investigate Morales, Arce, Choquehuanca, and eight other MAS leaders for fomenting "terrorism, genocide, and other crimes against health" in relation to the protests.


2020 Bolivian general election, Background, Election postponement and blockades
In late August and early September 2020, large seizures of weapons, dynamite, ammunition and case were made with claimed links to Mexican drug cartels and MAS-affiliated groups. This prompted concerns that irregular groups could seek to destabilize the coming elections.


2020 Bolivian general election, Electoral system
The President of Bolivia is elected using a modified two-round system: a candidate is declared the winner if they receive more than 50% of the vote, or over 40% of the vote and are 10 percentage points ahead of their closest rival. If neither condition is met, a run-off election is held between the two top candidates.


2020 Bolivian general election, Electoral system
The 130 members in the Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) (excluding the seven special seats) are elected using the additional member system. Using first-past-the-post voting, 63 seats are elected in single-member districts. Another 60 additional seats are elected using closed list party-list proportional representation in districts of varying sizes corresponding to Bolivia's nine departments with a threshold of 3%. The additional seats in each region are awarded proportionally based on the vote for the presidential candidates, subtracting the number of single-member districts won. The remaining seven seats are reserved indigenous seats elected by the usos y costumbres, using first-past-the-post voting. A voter can only vote in one of either the normal constituencies or special constituencies.


2020 Bolivian general election, Electoral system
The Chamber of Senators (Cámara de Senadores) has 36 members, four from each the country's nine departments, which are also elected using closed party-lists, using the D'Hondt method. The senate seats are also awarded based on the vote for president.


2020 Bolivian general election, Electoral system
Voting in Bolivia is compulsory for all adults over the age of 18. The voter is given a card when they have voted so that they can show proof of participation. The voter would not be able to receive their salary from the bank if they cannot show the proof of voting during three months after the election. This can result in a relatively common occurrence of invalid ballots. This is reflected in the percentages of blank/null votes under "would not vote" in the electoral surveys.


2020 Bolivian general election, Electoral system
On 17 October, the TSE announced that the new preliminary count system (Direpre) would not be used because the preliminary data would not offer certainty about the results, and only the final results will be published officially. The TSE also stated that all people will be able to observe the counting process and any citizen would be able to take photos of the electoral records. Political organisations with delegates would also have the right to copies of the minutes, the calculation and scrutiny would be carried out in public, and photos of the minutes would be part of the released data.


2020 Bolivian general election, Presidential candidates
As of 28 January 2020, ten candidates had officially stated their intention to run for the presidency.


2020 Bolivian general election, Presidential candidates
On 18 January 2020, the Unity Pact of MAS bases elected David Choquehuanca and Andrónico Rodríguez as presidential and vice-presidential candidates. On 19 January, Evo Morales announced that Luis Alberto Arce Catacora and David Choquehuanca would be the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates. This was following a vote by those members of MAS leadership present in Buenos Aires the previous day. This difference caused some friction among different sections of the MAS bases, including the Barolina Sisa and Tupac Katari Federation who rejected these selections.


2020 Bolivian general election, Presidential candidates
On 21 January, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) supplied a third candidacy combination of Choquehuanca paired with Orlando Gutiérrez. MAS President of the Senate, Eva Copa, said the matter was not yet closed and would be decided by a further meeting of the Unity Pact. On 23 January, the Unity Pact ratified the Arce-Choquehuanca ticket chosen in Buenos Aires. On 24 January, a new right-wing political alliance called "We Believe" ("Creemos") was formed, and endorsed the Camacho-Pumari ticket. By the registration deadline, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced that five political coalitions had been registered. However, on 31 January the TSE announced that the coalition "United People" had been disqualified after not submitting the required documents.


2020 Bolivian general election, Presidential candidates
In July 2020, a lawsuit was filed by four separate political parties (among others) with the Supreme Electoral Court asking it to disqualify Arce from standing in the presidential election. The lawsuit stated Arce had released an opinion poll on the presidential race outside the time frame allowed. In 2015, a similar complaint was filed against Ernesto Suárez, leader of the opposition UD bench in the Department of Beni, regarding release of polls by outgoing governor campaign manager Carmelo Lens. This resulted in Suárez and 227 other UD canditates having their legal status cancelled and removed from the election.


2020 Bolivian general election, Presidential candidates
On 11 October, Jorge Quiroga announced that he and the political alliance he was heading were withdrawing from the race.


2020 Bolivian general election, Debates
During the 14 years and preceding period where Evo Morales was president and presidential candidate, Morales declined to take part in any public debate with any of the other candidates, making the justification that he only "debates with the people". In January 2020, interim president Jeanine Áñez submitted legislation to make this a compulsory requirement for presidential candidates in upcoming elections, but this was rejected by the MAS-controlled Senate.


2020 Bolivian general election, Debates
A historic debate which would gather all the presidential candidates together on the same stage for the first time in almost two decades was announced on 6 September, organised by the association of Bolivian Journalists, media organisations and others. The debate was covered by more than 80 national and international media and an audience of more than five million people was expected. The event also had the backing of 50 national institutions and the financial and technical support of the European Union, International Idea, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the embassies of Canada, Germany and Switzerland.


2020 Bolivian general election, Debates
When it aired, it achieved record viewing numbers. From the beginning, however, the MAS candidate Luis Arce was reluctant to make a commitment to attend, with he and MAS first placing conditions on attending, such as they not be subject to insults, and later claiming a clash with a planned interview with the television network Red Uno (which the network later moved to allow free up the MAS candidate). On the night of the broadcast, both he and Creemos candidate, Luis Camacho, did not attend. Camacho said he did not attend because he had been deceived that Mesa would also not be attending. A panel of 40 analysts surveyed by Pagina Siete indicated that Mesa came out as the most favourable candidate from this debate.


2020 Bolivian general election, Debates
While Arce did not attend the debate on 4 October, he did attend another broadcast the previous day in which all presidential candidates were present. This was organised by the Federation of Municipal Associations (FAM) and the Confederation of Universities of Bolivia (CUB). The debate format received criticism for not allowing candidates to respond to each other as well as accusations that the organisers were pro-MAS.


2020 Bolivian general election, Debates
Criticisms included that it was not a debate, but a "monologue", "fashion show" and "propaganda" and that the definition of debate should include at least some form of interaction, interrogation, discussion or confrontation between candidates. The format of the debate was in some part determined by conditions set by Luis Arce to guarantee his attendance that "no personal or partisan allusions were allowed", i.e. no direct criticisms of other candidates or of their party.


2020 Bolivian general election, Conduct
Election day was relatively peaceful. Deputy security minister Wilson Santamaria said that two people tried to interfere with ballot papers in capital La Paz, but they were apprehended.


2020 Bolivian general election, Conduct
The head of Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) commended the conduct of the polls, saying that "election day was a successful day for democracy." The United Nations applauded the elections as having occurred in "an orderly manner, in a climate of tranquility and respect for human rights". The European Union congratulated Bolivia for the safe conduct of its elections as it awaited the results of the TSE.


2020 Bolivian general election, Conduct
During the vote count, the TSE received complaints of fraud from the separatist movement in Santa Cruz.


2020 Bolivian general election, Conduct
On 22 October, Bolivian mining union leader and previously proposed MAS vice-presidential candidate Orlando Gutiérrez suffered a head wound and was admitted to hospital. Although he was reported to be "stable, conscious and out of risk" shortly afterwards, on 28 October he was reported to have died in hospital. Information circulating on social media claimed an attack from a group calling themselves "pititas" in which he was beaten. Other sources say that it was the result of a brawl between different factions of MAS during a victory celebration. No criminal complaint was made and the body buried without an autopsy. An investigation was opened following his death, although previous attempts to investigate were denied and the diagnosis was kept confidential with no visitors allowed.


2020 Bolivian general election, International observers
Representatives of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Organization of American States (OAS) arrived in Bolivia on 9 January 2020 to discuss monitoring the elections that were initially planned for 3 May. USAID had been expelled in 2013 by the MAS government.


2020 Bolivian general election, International observers
International teams from the Carter Center, Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (UNIORE) and Association of Electoral Organizations of South America were also approved as electoral observers by the TSE. Local initiatives from within Bolivia including La Ruta de la Democracia and Observe Bolivia have also been approved and will be observing the elections. The OAS mission of observers consisted of 40 experts of 12 different nationalities. The European Union (EU) announced on 8 September that it would be sending a team of five or six experts to observe the 18 October elections. The Carter Centre sent two experts in electoral analysis.


2020 Bolivian general election, International observers
On 14 October 2020, the Progressive International sent an observer group made up of three national legislators from Greece, Poland and Spain, stating that they are "particularly concerned about the integrity of the presidential elections in Bolivia".


2020 Bolivian general election, International observers
A delegation of observers from Argentina invited by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly was subject to controversy when one of the delegates, lawmaker Federico Fagioli, was detained at La Paz Airport. The Bolivian Minister of the Interior, Arturo Morillo, stated that Fagioli had been warned not to return to Bolivia after the lawmaker's participation in a previous Argentine delegation that visited the country following the ousting of Evo Morales in 2019, and that Fagioli was a "persona non grata" in Bolivia. In addition to Fagioli's detention, other members of the Argentine delegation, including other lawmakers, were also allegedly mistreated by Bolivian security forces. The incident was harshly criticized by Argentine president Alberto Fernández and MAS candidate Luis Arce.


2020 Bolivian general election, International observers
A total of 110 international observers were accredited by the TSE to attend and analyse the results of the election.


2020 Bolivian general election, International observers
The OAS, the UN and UNIORE have all made public statements testifying to the validity of the elections and the lack of evidence of any irregularities. The Carter Centre supported the results and transparency of the elections, with minor recommendations on further improvements. They also analysed online disinformation targeting the electoral process in the 3 months prior to the election and noted "a proliferation of disinformation aimed at eroding the reputations of candidates and the TSE".


2020 Bolivian general election, Results
The results of the election mean that, for the first time, the Senate will contain a majority of female senators, with a proportion of 20 women to 16 men. Among these women was Yolanda Salazar, the nation's first Senator from the Trinidadian-Mojeña ethnic group of the Beni region, who was elected for CC. The new government was installed on 8 November 2020.


2020 Bolivian general election, Results
MAS, which improved its result over the annulled 2019 elections but still slightly reduced compared to 2014, attained a majority on its own in both chambers, meaning there is no obstacle to passing laws, but the loss of the two-thirds enjoyed by the party since 2009 means that some functions of the legislature will require cross-party support. These include the appointment of certain authorities (such as the Ombudsman for Human Rights, Comptroller General and Attorney General), making reforms in the constitution, the approval of judges for the Judicial Branch of government and the censuring of a government minister. This is the first time since 2009 that these decisions cannot be made by the ruling party alone.


2020 Bolivian general election, Results, Responses
Although the official results had not been expected for some days, quick counts performed by Ciesmori and Mi Voto Cuenta (My Vote Counts)  agreed that Arce won the election in the first round. The vote count could be attended by any member of the public and the tally sheets photographed for reasons of transparency.


2020 Bolivian general election, Results, Responses
President Áñez and former president Tuto Quiroga, also both former presidential candidates in this election and opponents of MAS, congratulated Luis Arce as president elect while Evo Morales celebrated in Argentina  Luis Almagro, the Secretary-General of the OAS, also congratulated Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca on their victory, noting that democracy "will create a bright future for Bolivia." CC candidate Carlos Mesa recognised Arce as winner in the first round based on the preliminary results and accepted a mandate as the leader of the opposition. On 23 October, after the completion of the official vote count, Creemos candidate Luis Camacho also publicly acknowledged the results.


2020 Bolivian general election, Results, Responses
Political allies of Evo Morales, including Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo (President and Vice-President of Nicaragua), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (President of Mexico), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (former President of Brazil), Rafael Correa (former President of Ecuador), Nicolás Maduro (President of Venezuela), and Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner (President and Vice-President of Argentina), congratulated the Arce-Choquehuanca ticket on their victory. The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, sent congratulations to Arce for his victory and expressed hope that the United States and Bolivia could work together on joint interests in the future.


2020 Bolivian general election, Results, Responses
Arce has indicated that he is open to working with the US in the future after nine years of broken diplomatic relations as well as resuming diplomatic ties with Venezuela and Cuba, which were broken during the period of the interim government. A statement from the Brazilian foreign ministry congratulated Arce and expressed the nation's "willingness to work with the new Bolivian authorities to seek the implementation of initiatives of common interest in the field of friendship, neighborhood and cooperation ties that unite the two countries and their peoples."


2020 Bolivian general election, Results, Responses
Bolivian newspaper El Deber called Arce's victory "clear and crushing" and praised him for his conciliatory statements after the result, while also emphasizing that the new president will have to appease MAS's radical wing. Writing on Los Tiempos, Oscar Díaz Arnau attributed Arce's victory to MAS's strong support in rural areas, the weakness of Mesa's candidacy, Arce's moderation, lack of connection between the opposition and rural inhabitants and the candidacy of Luis Fernando Camacho splitting anti-MAS voters and weakening the opposition.


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
On 25 October, several right-wing and conservative civic organizations in Santa Cruz like the Pro-Santa Cruz Civic Committee and the Santa Cruz Youth Union, both allies of right-wing candidate Luis Fernando Camacho, claimed that Luis Arce was not the president-elect due to alleged fraud. Camacho and his political allies called for strikes around the country.


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
In order to mitigate their loss of the two-thirds supermajority in the legislature, MAS parliamentarians used the last few days of the outgoing assembly to make 21 changes to the rules of procedure that formerly required a two-thirds majority so that they could now be passed with only a simple majority. Some opposition parliamentarians left the session in protest. Opposition leader Carlos Mesa condemned the changes, saying "Authoritarianism, abuse and the submission of the Legislative Assembly continue".


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
MAS Senator Omar Aguilar supported the amendments, asking, "Are we going to block the governance of Luis Arce just because we lack three senators in this chamber?" The corresponding session in the House of Deputies lasted less than 20 minutes without any discussion of the amendments being made. Outgoing MAS president of the Senate Eva Copa said that the amendments will "speed up the legislative task."


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
President-elect Arce endorsed the changes, saying that the decision "wakes up [the government]" for the incoming assembly. "What our Assembly has done is maintain legality. There are many laws that are going to be approved with two-thirds. That is established by the regulations and there should be no concern", he said.


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
On 5 November, president-elect Luis Arce was attacked using dynamite at his campaign house in La Paz. On 14 November, Jorge Valda, a Pro-Santa Cruz Committee attorney who claimed fraud in the elections, was arrested and sent to La Paz where he was convicted for legitimation of illicit profits. Arce was inaugurated on 8 November 2020.


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
In June 2021, The Intercept obtained audio of officials of the outgoing government and the military plotting what The Intercept termed a "second coup." The plans involved the use of mercenaries from the United States. Luis Fernando López, former defense minister, was recorded saying that Sergio Orellana, the top general, was involved in the plot. Orellana fled the country upon Arce's victory.


2020 Bolivian general election, Aftermath, Legacy
On 1 February 2021, the government of Luis Arce declared 18 October 2020, the date of the general elections, to be the "Day of recovery of intercultural democracy". Previously, 10 October 1982 has been considered the day of Bolivia's return to democracy as it was the date in which Guido Vildoso and the military returned power to the democratically elected Hernán Siles Zuazo. The decree instructs that the ministries, in coordination with the Autonomous Territorial Entities, as well as social organizations and civil society, organize activities to celebrate democratic values, the reestablishment and preservation of intercultural democratic institutions. The move was criticised by Carlos Mesa who called it "an affront to the citizens who conquered democracy on 10/10/82."


2020 Bolivian protests
The 2020 Bolivian protests were mass anti-presidential demonstrations and pro-Morales unrest after the 2019 Bolivian political crisis ousted popular president Evo Morales and his government, and made Jeanine Áñez the interim president. Another cause was the delay of the 2020 Bolivian general election.


2020 Bolivian protests, Background
Bolivia has seen many demonstrations and uprisings since the 1952 Bolivian Revolution and has seen many abuse scandals since the killings of peaceful protesters in the 2011 Bolivian indigenous rights protests. Mass protests in 2019, the 2019 Bolivian protests, were a revolution and mass uprising against president Evo Morales, after the results of the 2019 Bolivian general election were said to be rigged and falsified. Bolivia then ousted him after 13 years in power in the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, which is considered to be a coup. Pro -Morales demonstrations took place for 10 days.


2020 Bolivian protests, Protests
Protests erupted on 9 August after the election was delayed on 6 August. Mass demonstrators set blockades and looted trees. Protesters marched throughout the indigenous eastern province and started chanting slogans against president Jeanine Anez.


2020 Bolivian protests, Protests
On 11–13 August, anti-government protests again took place, while no police intervened in the street protests. Strikes were organised for 14–15 August by workers and indigenous tribes but farmer strikes were already taking place, with them burning tires and starting blockades, while others threatened a nationwide strike.


2020 Bolivian protests, Protests
Two weeks of barricades continued throughout the country, marchers chanted and clapped and set fires to branches and broken trees, demanding better treatment of tribes and forest people. On 28 August-28 September, strikes took place and the crisis escalated. On 28 August, thugs stormed the demonstrations and shot at the demonstrators, but no casualties were reported.


2020 Bolivian protests, Aftermath
General strikes and a series of wildcat strikes have since been ongoing, with chaos even ongoing into September, October and November, when election protests and strikes took place. The 2020 Bolivian general election would be the end of the movement but strikes have continued since.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500
The 2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500 was an IndyCar Series event that took place from August 29-30, 2020. It made up the eighth and ninth rounds of the 2020 IndyCar Series season. Initially scheduled to be just one race, the event was extended to a doubleheader weekend after cancellations of the events at Portland and Laguna Seca due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The races were also made 50 laps shorter than in years past to account for the doubleheader format.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Entry list
Separate entry lists were released for both events with identical participants, apart from a sponsor change for Felix Rosenqvist from NTT Data to Monster Energy.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Entry list
All cars run a Dallara safety tub utilizing the IndyCar mandated Universal Aero Kit 18. All cars also will utilize Firestone tires.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Practice
Patricio O'Ward was fastest in practice with a time of 24.789 seconds and a speed of 181.532 mph (292.147 km/h).


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Combined Qualifying Session, August 29
The pole for Saturday's race was won by Will Power with a time of 24.6718 seconds. Takuma Sato won the pole for Sunday's race with a time of 24.6577 seconds.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Race 1 – August 29
The first 14 laps of the race were run under caution as a result of a six-car crash coming to the green flag. Álex Palou pulled out of line, and was followed by Simon Pagenaud and Oliver Askew. Askew hit Pagenaud, who in turn collected Alexander Rossi. The resulting incident took out Zach Veach, Marco Andretti, and Ed Carpenter, leading to three of the five Andretti Autosport cars retiring inside the opening five laps. Scott Dixon won the event, his fourth of the season, extending his points lead over Josef Newgarden to 117 points.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Race 1 – August 29, Race
Notes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Race 2 – August 30
The second race began under caution after a vehicle spilled oil on the track during the pace laps. Josef Newgarden won the race, his second win of the season.


2020 Bommarito Automotive Group 500, Race 2 – August 30, Race
Notes: Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.


2020 Booker Prize
The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 19 November 2020. The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 15 September. The Prize was awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, receiving £50,000. Stuart is the second Scottish author to win the Booker Prize, after it was awarded to James Kelman for How Late It Was, How Late in 1994.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season
The 2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season was the first for the Boost Mobile Super Trucks, an Australian off-road racing series spawned as an offshoot of the American Stadium Super Trucks.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the season's races were cancelled following the opening race at the Adelaide 500. Three of the eight rounds were to be combination races held alongside the Stadium Super Trucks. As a result, the series did not track standings for the season. Shae Davies was the lone Boost Mobile Super Truck driver to win a race.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Schedule
During the 2019 Gold Coast 600 in October, the series' first race in Australia since Motorsport Australia lifted its year-long ban, the 2020 Australian schedule was announced under the Boost Mobile Super Trucks name. The full schedule was revealed on 21 November 2019, with the series being divided into the American Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks and the Australian Boost Mobile Super Trucks; both championships intended to run three companion rounds.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Season summary
The Boost Mobile Super Trucks' inaugural race weekend came as an "Australia v USA Series" with the Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks at the Adelaide Street Circuit. Excluding defending SST champion and Australian-American Matthew Brabham, eight drivers represented Australia at Adelaide.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Season summary
Among the Australian drivers were Supercars veteran Paul Weel in his return to racing for the first time since 2008, 2017 Stadium Super Trucks season champion Paul Morris and his driving academy driver Luke van Herwaade under the Team Norwell banner, Super2 Series driver Shae Davies, Shaun Richardson in his first SST race since 2017, SST veterans Toby Price and Greg Gartner, and Matt Mingay racing for the first time since suffering serious injuries in a 2016 SST race. Robby Gordon won the season opener after holding off a last-lap charge by Price.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Season summary
The second race saw Mingay and Morris lead before Gordon and Brabham passed them in the second half, with Brabham edging out Gordon for the victory by .0361 seconds. In the third and final round, Gartner led early while Davies climbed through the field after avoiding wrecks. Davies eventually took the lead after the competition caution and pulled away while the field battled among themselves for position.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Season summary
Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boost Mobile Super Trucks planned to run an eight-race schedule in conjunction with the Supercars Championship starting with the Adelaide 500 in late February. The trucks also planned to race in New Zealand for the first time at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park; the event was initially planned to take place at Pukekohe Park Raceway, but Pukekohe legislation forbade motorsports on Anzac Day (25 April).


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Season summary
Although the series had hoped to follow the Supercars Championship to postponed races once new races were finalised, the trucks ultimately did not join the Supercars at their revised dates.


2020 Boost Mobile Super Trucks season, Results and standings, Drivers' championship
Points are approximate based on the points system and unofficial as the series did not track standings for the 2020 season.


2020 Bora–Hansgrohe season
The 2020 cycling season for Bora–Hansgrohe began in January at the Tour Down Under in Australia.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections
The 2020 Bosnian municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15 November 2020 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities. Originally scheduled for 4 October, they were postponed due to a lack of funds.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections
Occurring under the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they came less than a year following the delayed formation of the state government. National coalition partners and the hegemonic Bosniak, Serb and Croat political parties, the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), respectively, each defended the most number of positions.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections
This election marked the first time since 2008 that Mostar elected its city council (on a separate date on 20 December), after electoral amendments passed in July 2020 allowed solving the issue and implement the European Court of Human Rights decision in the case of Baralija vs Bosnia and Herzegovina.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections
A total of 3,283,194 citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina were registered to vote – almost on par with the total population of the country, 3,531,159 at the 2013 census – pointing to issues of outdated data in the voters' registry.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections
Out of 425 mayoral candidates, 29 were women. Only 4 women were elected mayors, down from 7.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral system
Municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina comprise the election of a mayor and municipal assembly across the 143 municipalities of Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are governed by the Law on Elections.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral system
Mayors are elected by a first-past-the-post system, with the candidate receiving the plurality of votes winning. For this reason, multi-party coalitions are more common at the mayor level, with a united political or ethnic slate presented in situations where several candidates may divide the electorate. Assembly elections use open list proportional representation, with the number of assembly members varying by population.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral system
Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo are further subdivided into four and six municipalities which also elect assemblies and then, indirectly, mayors. The Brčko District is considered an independent self-administrative unit, electing an assembly which in turn selects a mayor.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
Electoral issues dominated the Bosnian public sphere across September and October, although the electoral campaign officially started only on 16 October. Political parties held large rallies, despite growing COVID-19 cases (over 50,000 cases and 1,234 deaths by 31 October) and in violation of health and safety regulations.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
According to Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BIH), political parties spent almost one million BAM on video production and advertising in TV and print media in the first two weeks of campaign. Almost the entire amount was spent by the main six parties, with the largest share by Banja Luka-based SNSD (351,357) and PDP (325,852 KM). Transparency International also recorded multiple examples of abuse of administrative resources by parties in power for electoral purposes.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
In Velika Kladuša, outgoing mayor and convicted war criminal Fikret Abdić, under arrest since June for abuse of office, was released to allow him to carry out electoral campaign.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
The international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, noted that the election campaign was "characterized by divisive, negative rhetoric that deepens existing divisions and makes reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina increasingly difficult."


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
The Central Electoral Commission (CIK) fined several parties for illicit activities before the formal start of the electoral campaign. On 7 October, the CIK banned from elections the United Srpska and fined it BAM 10,000 for diffusion of a video on social media deemed as spreading ethnic hatred. On 15 October, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina annulled such decision, as it deemed that the legal provisions referred to by the CIK (Election Law) did not apply to the period ahead the formal start of the electoral campaign. The video continued to be shared by the party on social media in the following weeks.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
The number of voters registers from abroad soared to 101,771, alarming judicial institutions to the risk of fraud. The CIK received over 3,500 reports of suspected fraud, particularly in relation to Srebrenica and Brčko. To facilitate the identification of such cases, on 8 October the CIK published on its website the liste of registered mail-in voters, including names and addresses, allowing all citizens to identify and report suspected irregularities. On 14 October the BiH Agency for the Protection of Personal Data requested the removal of the list of registered mail-in voters from the CIK website, citing privacy concerns.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
The CIK rejected over 27,000 received applications for voting from abroad and reported suspect cases of fraud to the State-level BiH Prosecutor's Office, which however on 12 October indicated that it rejected jurisdiction on them and advised the CIK to address local judicial institutions.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Electoral campaign
The local elections were observed remotely by the Council of Europe.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results
Turnout reached 50%. Governing parties in each communities (Bosniak SDA and Bosnian Serb SNSD) had a lacklustre showing, and opposition candidates won in Sarajevo as well as, unexpectedly, in Banja Luka and Bijeljina. Party leaders (Bakir Izetbegović and Milorad Dodik respectively) acknowledged the loss. Results in Srebrenica remain unclear due to the high number of absentee and postal ballots.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results
In the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, in its municipality of Centar, the candidate of the opposition coalition Srđan Mandić (Our Party) obtained almost two thirds of the votes. Opposition candidates won 4 municipalities out of 9. Experienced politician, Social Democrat Bogić Bogićević was poised to be elected the next mayor of the city of Sarajevo in the coming weeks by the City Council. In parallel, the alliance of the four opposition parties also initiated the reshuffle process of the government of the Sarajevo Canton, which they controlled with good results for the first time in 2019, but which returned in March 2020 in the hands of the SDA.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results
In Zenica the outgoing mayor, the independent Fuad Kasumović, keeps the town hall; the SDA candidate, Deputy Minister of Justice Nezir Pivić got only second. Also in Tuzla, the Social Democrat Jasmin Imamović – the longest-serving mayor of Bosnia, in power since 2001 – maintains control of the cantonal capital, resulting in the lead in all polling stations in town. In Velika Kladuša the outgoing mayor, war criminal Fikret Abdić, seems to have been reconfirmed, even if only with a very narrow margin on challenger Jasmin Hušić. The elections might have to be repeated in Travnik, where the winning candidate, Mirsad Peco (SDA), died from COVID-19 on the same day as the vote. Finally, in Mostar, voting will only take place on 20 December, for the first time since 2008.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results
In the Republika Srpska entity, 27-year-old opposition candidate Draško Stanivuković (PDP) won the majority of votes for the post of City mayor of Banja Luka over the outgoing Igor Radojičić (SNSD), a loyalist of Dodik. Stanivuković created a public profile lambasting nepotism and corruption of the ruling party, as well as showing himself closer to the demands of the "Justice for David" movement. Dodik's party had ruled the Bosnian Serb capital since 1998.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results
The SNSD, with Dalibor Pavlović, instead gains the municipality of Prijedor, a fiefdom of his allied DNS party, now in crisis; that of Doboj, where the previous mayor aligned himself with the SNSD in 2018; and that of Trebinje, where Dodik has promised the construction of an airport – financed by Belgrade. In Srebrenica, waiting for the postal votes, the outgoing mayor, Serb Mladen Grujičić, a denier of the genocide, is ahead of just 600 votes; Bosniak parties, which count on at least 1600 postal votes, have declared victory for their candidate Alija Tabaković.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results
The count is set to continue for the whole week. Finally, in Bijeljina the outgoing mayor Mićo Mićić, in power since 2004, had aligned himself with Dodik, being expelled from the SDS party; he unexpectedly lost his seat to opposition candidate Ljubiša Petrović (SDS/PDP). However, Dodik's coalition obtained a majority in the city council.


2020 Bosnian municipal elections, Results, Assembly of Brčko District
There are 31 seats in the Assembly of the Brčko District. The seats are divided as follows as of 2020:


2020 Boston College Eagles football team
The 2020 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Led by first-year head coach Jeff Hafley, the team compiled an overall record of 6–5, and a 5–5 record in ACC games.


2020 Boston College Eagles football team
After the regular season concluded, the Eagles opted out from playing in a bowl game. Boston College was the first team to opt out of bowl season due to concerns over COVID-19.


2020 Boston College Eagles football team, Schedule
Boston College had games scheduled against Holy Cross, Kansas, Ohio and Purdue, which were all canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Boston College Eagles football team, Schedule
The ACC released their schedule on July 29, 2020, with specific dates selected at a later date.


2020 Boston College Eagles men's soccer team
The 2020 Boston College Eagles men's soccer team represented Boston College during the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Eagles were led by head coach Bob Thompson, in his first season. They played home games at Newton Soccer Complex. This was the team's 54th season playing organized men's college soccer and their 16th playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2020 Boston College Eagles men's soccer team
Prior to the season head coach Ed Kelly retired after thirty three years as head coach. Bob Thompson was announced as the new head coach in January of 2020.


2020 Boston College Eagles men's soccer team
The teams' 2020 season was significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which curtailed the fall season and caused the NCAA Tournament to be played in Spring 2021. The ACC was one of the only two conferences in men's soccer to play in the fall of 2020. However, the Eagles elected to not play in the reduced fall season. The ACC also held a mini-season during the spring of 2021. The Eagles did participate in this spring mini-season.


2020 Boston College Eagles men's soccer team
The Eagles finished the spring season 1–3–1 and 1–3–1 in ACC play, to finish in fifth place in the Coastal Division. They were not invited to the NCAA Tournament.