New Delhi: A global boxing qualifying tournament for the Tokyo Olympics has been cancelled and a European event postponed from April to June.
According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), plans were changed because of “current challenges to international travel and related restrictions in many countries” during the coronavirus pandemic, Hindustan Times (HT) reported quoting PTI.
Boxers all across the world were supposed to compete for 53 places in the Tokyo lineup at a tournament in Paris in June. Those places will now be allocated equally across continents by world rankings based on results since 2017, the IOC said.
Olympic entries from Africa and the Asia-Oceania region will now be allocated by rankings while boxers in the Americas and Europe can still earn qualifying places in the ring. An Americas tournament is scheduled for May 10-16 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the European qualifiers should be in June at a venue to be decided, the report added.
The European event began in London last March then was stopped after three of 11 scheduled days when the pandemic was declared. London was to have hosted the postponed event this April.
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