RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Copa America will finally start this Sunday in Brazil, after the Federal Supreme Court (STF) rejected on Thursday three appeals that tried to prevent the South American soccer tournament due to the high incidence of Covid-19 in the country.
The last remaining judicial hurdle to the holding of the tournament fell at the Supreme Court, which in a majority decision ratified the court's precedents that the last word on sporting events during the pandemic is left to each of the governors of the country's 27 states.
In soccer terms, the ruling was . . .
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