The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) will not send athletes to the upcoming Asian Games, scheduled to be held in China’s Hangzhou from September 10-25, due to the resumption of the coronavirus pandemic, it announced on Sunday. May 1. These Games are to take place less than 200 km southeast of Shanghai, where the population has again been confined for a few weeks. The organizers assured that they were in the process of putting in place a plan to control the virus based on that of the last Winter Olympics, in February in Beijing, but without giving details on how to get there, the China’s policy in this area is very restrictive. Hangzhou, which has a population of 12 million, will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.
Australia won’t send athletes to Asian Games in China
