Legal recommendations and psychological advice sports administrators can implement in the next pandemic

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic exposed sports administrators’ lack of crisis management preparedness and athletes, coaches, support staff’s mental for a pandemic. Sports administrators were in the unenviable position having to protect health their staff, wider population by preventing spread disease with restrictive policies, such as bio-bubbles quarantines, while at same time not restricting anyone’s liberty unalienable rights pursue happiness. This article informs how balance instructions from regulatory bodies measures protecting individual liberty. It provides administrator’s legal recommendations they can follow psychological advice that pass on staff. also explains coaches staff manage, athletes successfully cope with, future bio-bubbles, next