Snapshots of the Covid year in sport Updated / Thursday, 24 Dec 2020 11:59 No Aintree Grand National, no Wimbledon. More casualties in a year where much more than sport was upended. A time of frayed nerves as people coped with being unable to do the most normal of things. For others there was the pain of not being present when loved ones passed away. What a cruel virus. Funerals stripped of the trappings that should give full expression to those who have left us. The vaccines are being rolled out. No silver bullet, we're told, in completely ridding the world of Covid-19, but it's a start.