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Nanjing will now host the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2023.© AFP
World Athletics (WA) on Thursday introduced that they’ve agreed with the organisers of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing to postpone the occasion from March 19-21 in 2021 to March 2023. “Whilst we have been liaising with the Organising Committee and the Chinese Athletics Association to evaluate the staging over the last few weeks, given the current global situation, there is still significant uncertainty about the state of the Covid-19 pandemic in the early part of 2021,” WA mentioned in a launch.
It is with remorse that now we have agreed with the organisers of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing (19-21 March 2021) to postpone the occasion to March 2023.
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 10, 2020
“For the safety of our athletes and technical officials, we must duly consider the risks in bringing a large group of people to attend the event under the pandemic situation and fully respect and carry out the pandemic prevention policy of the host country,” it added.
Earlier this yr, the occasion was postponed to March 2021 after the coronavirus outbreak in China. The occasion was initially scheduled to held in Nanjing from March 13-15 this yr.
Nanjing will now host the World Indoor Championships 2023, one yr after the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2022.
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Despite this postponement, athletes will nonetheless have substantial aggressive alternatives out there within the early a part of 2021 via the World Indoor Tour, which includes 26 conferences unfold throughout 12 nations in Europe and North America.
The World Indoor Tour runs from the top of January to the top of February 2021 and is organised throughout three completely different tiers of competitors — Gold, Silver and Bronze.
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