Covid Delays 2022 Asian Games in China

What’s new: The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced Friday that this year’s Asian Games, which were scheduled to take place in September in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, have been postponed due to Covid-19.

The decision was made after “detailed discussions with the Chinese Olympic Committee and the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee” on “the pandemic situation and the size of the Games,” according to an OCA statement.