PARA GAMES: ASEAN Para Games postponed for third time to October

The Board of Governors of APSF made the announcement last week after a two-hour emergency video conference meeting.

The board will convene at the end of July to assess the situation before confirming and proceeding with the October Games.

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According to the statement, Presidents and members of the National Paralympic Committees of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam participated in the video conference.

The members have agreed to move the Games to the new dates in October, “with conditions that the Covid-19 pandemic is contained and no longer a threat”, said the Singapore National Paralympic Council (SNPC) in a press release on Thursday.

The biennial Games, which were initially scheduled for January 18-24, were first moved to March 21-27 due to technical issues.

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Last month, the APSF and the Philippines Local Organising Committee announced that the multi-sport event would be postponed to May 26 to June 6 due to the coronavirus situation. Myanmar’s Department of Sports and Physical

Education said in a statement that it agrees with the postponement and the new dates for the event.

The 10th ASEAN Para Games in the Philippines will feature 19 sports and Myanmar will send a contingent of 100 athletes and officials.

There are 381,744 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 16,558 deaths as of March 24.The host Philippines has 501 cases and 33 deaths.