KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) — After much contemplation, the 31st SEA Games scheduled to be held from Nov 21 to Dec 2 in Hanoi, has been postponed to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) in a statement said, the SEA Games Federation (SEAGF), which met virtually today, agreed with the postponement after rejecting the proposals twice, previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It stated that, a new date will be determined by the SEAGF Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe SEAGF members praised the work done thus far by the Vietnam Organising Committee (VOC), but took note of the current conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the South-East Asian region,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to local media reports last month, VOC wanted to postpone the Hanoi Games to March or June next year due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries, which also delayed the hosts\u2019 preparations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vietnam, who is set to host the SEA Games for the second time after the 2003 edition, has previously listed 520 events from 40 sports for this year\u2019s Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only time the biennial games has been cancelled since the inaugural edition in 1959, was in 1963, when Cambodia could not host the multi-sport games due to political instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The latest decision will see an influx of multi-sport events in the 2022 calendar, including the Beijing Winter Olympics from Feb 4-20, Birmingham Commonwealth Games (July 28-Aug 8) and Hangzhou Asian Games (Sept 10-25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previously, Malaysia was among the eight countries, who rejected the proposals to postpone the SEA Games to 2022 due to various reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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