ASIAD 2022 in China faces the risk of being postponed

Asia’s biggest sporting event The 19th is scheduled to be held in September in Hangzhou (China), near Shanghai, which is struggling with a state of emergency due to Covid-19. Husain Al-Musallam of Kuwait, Director General of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), the head body of ASIAD, said: “There is no official decision made by the committee yet, but it is possible. It is likely to have to be postponed.”

ASIAD 2022 in Hangzhou may be postponed EFE

Most events international sports was held in China since the Covid-19 pandemic, in which Beijing hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics in a strict bubble process in February. Shanghai, China’s largest city, has seen an outbreak The country’s worst Covid-19 in the past two years, with weeks-long restrictions keeping most of its 25 million residents confined to their homes.

China’s ASIAD 2022 Organizers Recently, all 56 venues for the event have been completed, promising to announce a virus control plan similar to the Winter Olympics. “We are currently only making some final adjustments and improvements to the facilities,” Lu Chunjiang, the official in charge of operations at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, told state broadcaster CCTV.

Facilities to prepare for ASIAD 2022 have been completed AFP

Hangzhou, nearly 200 km from Shanghai, is scheduled to host this year’s ASIAD from September 10 to 25, becoming the third Chinese locality to host the largest sports festival in Asia after Beijing (in 1990). ) and Guangzhou (2010).