[Sports Road News]The Hong Kong Athletics Federation said today (16th) that since the conference has not yet received the government’s approval to hold the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2022, there are only two months left before the original race date of November 20th. Runners and stakeholders may not have enough time to prepare, so the Organiser decided to cancel this year’s event when they had no choice.
Chairman Tian Guan Qi pointed out last week that as early as last year, he had held meetings with various government departments to discuss the arrangements for organizing this year’s slag horses. By June this year, he had communicated with the new bureau of culture, sports and tourism, and had officially applied for it on November 20. Hold a slag horse and increase the number of participants from 15,000 last year to 25,000. At that time, Mr. Tian pointed out that it might be arranged to start in batches according to the government’s epidemic prevention requirements, and mentioned that the epidemic prevention measures such as runners need to hold a vaccine pass “blue code”, and obtain a negative test result within 48 hours before the start of the race and submit a quick test on the day of the race. Negative certificate, etc.
However, following the event was not approved by the government, President Tian announced the cancellation of the event today. The Standard Chartered Marathon said it would like to thank all walks of life for their support for the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, and will continue to monitor the development of the epidemic and resume the race as soon as possible.
This article is by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “Horse 2022 cancelled without government green light」
