A walkover is the awarding of a victory to a contestant because
there are no other contestants, or because the other contestants
have been disqualified or have forfeited. The term can apply in
sport, but can also apply to elections.  Use in sports  The word
originates from horse-racing in the United Kingdom, where an
entrant in a one-horse race run under Jockey Club rules has to
"walk over" the course before being awarded victory. It is the
equivalent of a shoo-in in America. The Oxford English
Dictionary defines it thus: "a race in which through absence of
competitors the winner has merely to ‘walk over’; also in
extended sense, a contest in which through the inferiority of
his competitors the winner has practically no opposition.
Anything accomplished with great ease".  The term is also used
in competitive sports to describe the ease in which a given
contest was won, for example, "the match was a walk over". It is
used in regards to the ease of a victory, due to the inferiority
of an opposing team/individua