The Asian Games 2022 in the Chinese host city Hangzhou, will be postponed to 2023. This is due to the worst COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai, which is only two hours away from Hangzhou.
The Asian Games 2022, due to be held in Hangzhou, China in September, have been postponed to 2023 due to rising COVID-19 cases in the country, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced on Friday.
The Olympic Council of Asia, the governing body for the Asian Games, said it will announce the new dates for the 19th edition of the Games. The Asian Games 2022 were originally scheduled from September 10 to 25.
The host city of Hangzhou is less than 200km away from Shanghai, which is currently fighting another major COVID-19 outbreak and has strict restrictions in place, including weeks-long lockdown.
The organisers had confirmed that the construction of all venues and facilities for the Games had been completed in April. The OCA also announced on Friday that the third edition of the Asian Youth Games, scheduled to be held in Shantou in December, have been cancelled.
Source: Olympics.com