A string of Olympics qualifying events have already been rescheduled.
An Olympic qualifying event for women's soccer scheduled to take place in Wuhan has been moved to Sydney. China's women's soccer team were quarantined at a hotel in Brisbane on Wednesday after arriving in Australia for the tournament, Japan's Jiji Press reports.
Several other major sporting events in China have been canceled or rescheduled following the coronavirus outbreak, including The World Indoor Championships, which was scheduled to take place in Nanjing from March 13-15 but has now been postponed for a year."It is with regret that we have agreed with the organisers ... to postpone the event to March 2021," the sport's governing body said in a statement Wednesday.
"We are extremely worried in the sense that the spread of the infectious virus could pour cold water on momentum for the games," Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, said before a meeting with the International Paralympic Committee ,"I hope that it can be eradicated as quickly as possible. We plan to cooperate with the IOC , the IPC, the government and the city of Tokyo to tackle the disease," he added.
Tokyo governor Yurkio Koike warned:"We must firmly tackle the new coronavirus to contain it, or we are going to regret it."
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