The World Badminton Federation issued a statement on the 25th, expressing its support for the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games and proposing that the world ranking of the World Badminton Federation may be “frozen” in the near future.
Xinhua News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, March 25 (reporter Lin Hao) the World Badminton Federation issued a statement on the 25th, expressing its support for the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games and proposing that the world ranking of the World Badminton Federation may be “frozen” in the near future.
The World Badminton Federation said in a statement: “The World Badminton Federation fully supports the decisions made yesterday by IOC President Thomas Bach, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, the Tokyo Olympic Games will be rescheduled after 2020 but will be held no later than the summer of 2021.”
The statement said that, as the organization has learned in recent months, balancing the opinions of many parties on the whole sports is a complicated matter, therefore, the World Badminton Federation understands how difficult it is for the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee to make this decision.
The World Badminton Federation said that there is still uncertainty about the new date of the Olympic Games at this stage, hoping that the whole badminton world will be patient so that the World Badminton Federation can pass with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the cooperation of Tokyo Olympic organizing committee will better understand the trend of the situation in the next 12 months.
The world badminton federation will assess the impact of the extension of the olympic and paralympic games on the qualification mechanism of the badminton olympic games and ensure a fair plan to select athletes to participate in the postponed olympic and paralympic games.
The statement said that the World Badminton Federation is discussing the possibility of “freezing” the world ranking before the international competition restarts, and is working on dealing with relevant technical solutions, to ensure that the “freezing” and the subsequent “thawing” World Rankings are fair to all badminton players. The World Badminton Federation will make an announcement in the near future.
The statement said that the World Badminton Federation will continue to pay attention to the development of the new coronavirus epidemic, according to WHO, health experts, the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee make decisions that are most beneficial to badminton players and badminton groups.