Asian Games 2022

[bestmen 2,817]

I never saw Iran hosting something , is it a ban?

i know they have the money for 

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

Olympic qualifiers were suppose to be held at the 2022 Asian Games. Wonder if they will keep it for 2023 or just add quotas to the Asian qualifier if applicable.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,089]

2 hours ago, MHSN said:

Really really disappointing, having the games in 2023 will conflict with lots of Olympic qualifiers.

 

I hope OCA seriously looks for another host. you can't trust China with hosting things anymore even though it's probably not possible to organize such a huge event in less than a year.

Considering how big the games are its difficult to do so on a short notice. In a best case scenarios 3 or 4 host nations could divide few sports still it's a huge task 

[intoronto 5,638]

7 hours ago, Griff88 said:

Might as well announce another postponement for the Asian Youth Games too

Those are canceled.

[Dunadan 1,103]

So now they already have to rework some qualification systems for Paris ...and this could have been foreseen last month, instead of denying everything until the last minute.

[opruh 129]

Good job by China for taking care of it's citizens. Below 5k cases a day and no asian games is better than 100k+ cases a day and asian games. 

[Dunadan 1,103]

China's zero covid policy has failed so having 5k or 10k cases a day (sports events with safety measures being this huge catastrophic spreaders from almost nothing to hundreds of daily cases would be news now, beside the fact that those events weren't going to be held right now) doesn’t make a big difference. I think that either the situation is again much worse than what they let filter to international media or the government are just not interested in the sports's soft power anymore for now. Fair but call it quits for a few years after the Olympics then, and let sports bodies organize events elsewhere.

[dullard 699]

So what are the odds that the Asian Games will actually go ahead this year?

[MHSN 3,619]

Iran NOC announced the flagbearer(s) for the Asian Games, it seems they like to follow Tommy Bach's "advise" of having 2 athletes doing that 

 

Javad Foroughi (Shooting) and Nahid Kiani (Taekwondo)

[intoronto 5,638]

7 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Iran NOC announced the flagbearer(s) for the Asian Games, it seems they like to follow Tommy Bach's "advise" of having 2 athletes doing that 

 

Javad Foroughi (Shooting) and Nahid Kiani (Taekwondo)

One of the many dumb decisions made by the IOC