BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) — According to the official website of the International Federation of handball, due to the impact of the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, the Chinese women’s handball team will withdraw from the Olympic qualifier, which also means that Chinese girls will not have the chance to go to Tokyo Olympics.
The International Federation of handball wrote in an announcement titled “Thailand replaces Chinese women’s handball team to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifier” :
because China and Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, were affected by the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, thailand will become one of the countries that participated in the women’s first ball qualification competition in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games twelve bottles.
Therefore, North Korea has announced its withdrawal before. According to the ranking of the Asian region, Thailand’s qualification competition after joining is as follows:
Thailand will compete in the Olympic qualifying competition with Norway, Montenegro and Romania in Montenegro on March 20-22.
Kazakhstan will compete with Russia, Serbia and Hungary for the Tokyo Olympics in Hungary in March 20-22.
On last September, the Chinese team won the second place in the women’s handball Asian qualifying competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games held in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, and failed to go straight to the Olympics. The competition to withdraw from the Olympic qualifying competition also means that the Chinese women’s handball team completely missed the Tokyo Olympics. Before that, the Chinese men’s handball team had already lost the qualification for unsuccessful race Olympic Games because they did not participate in last year’s Asian qualifying competition, which also meant that China handball had all failed this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games.
Before that, both Chinese men’s football team and Chinese men’s volleyball team had been determined to miss the Tokyo Olympics, and there was little hope for China’s promotion men’s basketball.
In history, the Chinese women’s handball team once won the bronze medal in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, the Hiroshima Asian Games in 1994 and the Busan Asian Games in 2002 also won the third place. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, they won the sixth place. (Finished)