MADRID, 1 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
World Athletics confirmed this Thursday that it has had to once again postpone the celebration of the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Nanjing (China), which now go from March of next year to March 2025 due to the situation with the pandemic. of coronavirus.
This is a new postponement that the event suffers, which was initially scheduled for 2020 and had to be moved to 2021 due to the virus, to later, for the same reason, be held in 2023 and now in 2025. Faced with the impossibility If this event is relocated, it will not be held again until 2024, in the Scottish Glasgow.
“We are disappointed to have had to postpone this event again due to circumstances beyond our control, but have done so to provide certainty to athletes and Federations preparing for the 2023 season. Unfortunately, the schedule will prevent us from relocating the event and the indoor championships will return in 2024 in Glasgow,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.
The leader stressed that they have “offered” Nanjing the 2025 edition because they are “aware” of all the preparations of the organizers and in search of “avoiding possible financial losses for all parties.”