USA Weightlifting will quote to hold 2022 IWF world championships in Atlanta after China pulled out of its plan to hold the event in Chongqing citing difficulties associated to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chinese Weightlifting association resigned as hold on March 23 over rules that would have needed all athletes as well as officials to quarantine for Camiseta SL Benfica 21 days. The IWF opened a shortened quote process with USA Weightlifting offering Atlanta as a hold since it will already be holding the North American open Finals from December 1–4, 2022, at the Georgia worldwide Convention Center.
The U.S. quote proposes to utilize the exact same location with competition for the world championships beginning November 27 as well as ending on the closing weekend of the North American open Finals.
USA Weightlifting previously held the championships in 2017 in Anaheim as well as 2015 in Houston. The 2019 IWF youth world championships were held in Camiseta Kashima Antlers Las Vegas.
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The U.S. has likewise submitted nomination develops to potentially hold the IWF Electoral Congress, June 25–26, 2022, during USA Weightlifting Nationals Week, which will be held in conjunction with UFC worldwide fight Week in Las Vegas.
In addition, the USA Weightlifting friendship cup will likewise debut that week at the Las vegas Convention Center. The exhibition concept, not currently sanctioned by the IWF, will see two-person teams with a guy randomly paired with a lady from a different nation. Youth-level athletes will contend June 25–27, complied with by juniors June 28–30 as well as senior citizens July 1–3.
“I had really hoped to introduce the concept of a mixed-nation/mixed-gender team at a world cup level, as well as I still hope this may occur internationally” stated Ursula Papandrea, USA Weightlifting worldwide relations director. “I believe it is one more example that demonstrates the USA Weightlifting ‘action versus talk’ approach.”
USA Weightlifting has a proven track record of effectively holding the senior-level IWF world Championships, including the 2015 Camiseta Sao Paulo FC edition in Houston, when the U.S. held the event for the very first time in 28 years, as well as the 2017 satisfy in Anaheim, when the U.S. stepped in for original hold Malaysia. The 2019 IWF youth world championships was held in Las Vegas. An IWF Congress was held during each of those events, as was an IWF executive Board satisfying in 2018 in Colorado Springs, Colorado – understood as Olympic City USA.
USAW plans to work with the united states Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s government Relations division to make every reasonable effort to ensure visas are provided for the IWF Congress and/or world Championships, a path that was efficient for the worldwide Table Tennis Federation’s annual general satisfying in November 2021 in Houston.
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