Two meetings of Diamond League Athletics events held in China on Friday were canceled due to restrictions associated with the coronavirus and a replacement event in Poland was added to the schedule.
Mid -season meetings in Shanghai and Shenzhen were canceled “due to travel restrictions and strict quarantine requirements currently in place to enter China,” organizers said in a statement.
The league said it “hopes to re-host events in China starting in 2023.” The replacement event will be held in Chorzow, Poland on August 6. The series begins andl May 13 in Doha and it ends with the Diamond League final in Zurich, from September 7 to 8.
This is Diamond League 2022
May 13 – Doha (QAT)
May 21 – Birmingham (GBR)
May 28 – Eugene (USA)
June 5 – Rabat (MAR)
June 9 – Rome (ITA)
June 16 – Oslo (NOR)
June 18 – Paris (FRA)
June 30 – Stockholm (SUE)
August 6 – Silesia (POL)
August 10 – Monaco (MON)
August 26 – Lausanne (SUI)
September 2 – Brussels (BEL)
September 7-8-Zurich (SUI)
China is sticking to its strict “zero contagion” strategy, restricting travel, city-wide testing and setting up extensive facilities to try to isolate all infected people. Last year, two meetings in China were also canceled for the same reason.
The news came the same day the Olympic Council of Asia announced that this year’s Asian Games in China had been postponed due to concerns about the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in the country.
Source: La Verdad
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