Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 14 (reporter Lu Yuchen) The International Gymnastics Federation announced on the 14th Beijing time that due to the upgrade of local epidemic prevention and control measures, the final of the individual gymnastics World Cup Baku station, which is being held in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, will be canceled. The competition on this site is points race of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The local government of Azerbaijan announced on the 13th that in order to prevent and control the epidemic of new coronavirus pneumonia, measures will be taken to ban large-scale gathering for a month. The individual gymnastics World Cup Baku station has ended the qualifier on the 13th and will start the final on the 14th.
In the high-profile men’s rings project, Liu Yang, the champion of the Chinese team world championships, and LAN Xingyu, the team friend, would originally start the Olympic qualification “battle” with Greek player Pedro Nias in the final “, if one of the two Chinese team wins the championship, the Greek players will miss the Olympics. Currently, Pedro Nias ranks first temporarily with 15.100 points, followed by Liu Yang and Lan Xingyu, but the International Gymnastics Federation has not yet explained how to calculate the competition results on this site.
In addition, Fan Yilin and You Hao, the champions of the Chinese team world championship, ranked first in the women’s high-low bar and men’s parallel bars qualifying respectively, while Weng Hao ranked first in the men’s pommel horse project. At present, the gymnastics center of the State General Administration of Sports has arranged the whole team to change the ticket and return to China, and under the guidance of the General Administration, the epidemic prevention and control plan has been made.
Affected by the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, several competitions under the International Gymnastics Federation have been canceled before, including the individual all-around World Cup and Olympic points race in Stuttgart, Germany. In addition, gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline each have an Olympic points race extension.