Tokyo 2020 Baseball Qualifier Moves to Mexico 05/20/21
(ATR) The Final Baseball Qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games moves from Chinese Taipei to Mexico due to the unexpected epidemiological situation in the Asian nation.
(WBSC)
The president of the WBSC, the Italian Riccardo Fraccari, confirmed the announcement to
Around the Rings on Thursday and revealed that for five days he had been in the process of finding a new headquarters while restrictions were tightened in Taiwan due to the increase in COVID cases.
The most recent of the regulations prohibited the entry to the island of travelers without resident visas until June 18, which hampered the development of the event that was to be held at the Taichung Intercontinental Stadium from June 16.
ICYMI: IPC President Interview; Cortina Venue on Track 05/23/21
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IPC President: Most Important Paralympics in History
(ATR) International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons believes that the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics will be the most impactful in the movement’s four-decade history.
IPC president Andrew Parsons (Ralf Kuckuck/IPC)
“Precisely because of the pandemic, these Paralympic Games are the most important in the history of the movement because the pandemic has affected, disproportionally, persons with disability around the globe,” Parsons tells