Swimming Japan Championship canceled Canceled request to go out of Tokyo Metropolitan area New Corona March 25 23:59
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's request to refrain from unnecessary and urgent outings this weekend, the Japan Swimming Federation is scheduled to open as a representative event for swimming at the Tokyo Olympics on February 2 I decided to cancel the Japanese Championship.
Following the IOC = International Olympic Committee's decision to postpone the Tokyo Games by about a year due to the worldwide spread of the new coronavirus, the Japan Swimming Federation held an extraordinary Managing Board meeting on April 25 in Tokyo. At the Tokyo Aquatics Center in Koto-ku, we discussed the Japanese Swimming Championship, which was scheduled to open on next month.
As a result, once announced that this tournament will be held as a representative selection event for the next year's Olympic Games, then Governor Koike of Tokyo held an urgent press conference to give Tokyo residents unnecessary emergency this weekend. In response to requests to refrain from going out, the team decided to cancel the tournament.
The schedule for the future national selection is undecided, and the players will be required to repartition for reinforcement.