Recently, more and more international championships have begun to be decided in so-called "bubbles".

Despite that, and despite the fact that it is over three months left before the indoor world championships in athletics were planned to be decided in Chinese Nanjing, the International Athletics Federation announced today that the championship will be canceled.

"There is still a great deal of uncertainty about where the covid-19 pandemic will take place in early 2021. For the safety of the activists and organizers, we must take into account the risk involved in bringing a large group of people to the event during the pandemic situation. , and take into account the pandemic work in the host country ", writes the international federation on its website, and continues:

"The indoor season is very short, so it is not possible to move the championship to later in the year."

The Indoor World Cup was one of the first international sporting events this year to be affected by the corona pandemic as it was moved from March this year.

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Armand Duplantis received his first gold medal.

Photo: TT