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Important Announcement
Due to the continuing COVID-19 situation, some important decisions have been made about upcoming International Events and the resulting Selection Series.
Unfortunately we have been advised that the 2021 Oceania Shooting Federation Championships as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Shooting and Archery Championships have been
CANCELLED.
In addition, due to the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 Pandemic around the world, Shooting Australia has been considering the health and safety concerns of sending Australian Teams to upcoming international events in 2021 and in the early part of 2022. The Shooting Australia High Performance Committee met recently to consider these concerns, as well as to give consideration to an alternative approach to team selection. Recommendations were provided to and endorsed by the Shooting Australia Board on 1 July.
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Tuesday, 11 May 2021
The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) has been accused of ignoring athlete safety after it moved the African Championships to a COVID-infested environment in Kenya at two weeks notice. Why is the WFA putting athletes’ health at risk? said Mona De Lacey, the African representative on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes Commission. Did the WFA Board think about the athletes’ health and safety? That should be the biggest concern right now and the presence of the Indian COVID-19 variant in Kenya is a massive concern.
Several cases of the new, deadly variant have been discovered in Kenya, where the death rate from the virus is believed to be far higher than the official figure of a little under 3,000.
Thursday, 6 May 2021
The unprofessional Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has been severely criticised by China for putting athletes’ health at risk and forcing National Federations to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars unnecessarily.
Inexplicable delays in announcing a new qualifying system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games compelled athletes to travel to events they did not need to compete in, and increased the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus, said Zhou Jinqiang, President of the Chinese Weightlifting Association.
Zhou told
insidethegames that the IWF was not athlete-centred and that the sport’s leaders were acting in their own interests to such an extent that weightlifting is facing a big risk of being expelled from the Olympic Games.