World Junior Championships rescheduled to January next year: BWF
Other Sports | May 29, 2020 12:24 ISTThe Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed that the World Junior Championships will now be held from January 18 to 24 next year.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed that the World Junior Championships will now be held from January 18 to 24 next year.
With the Tokyo Games postponed due to the global health crisis, the governing body of badminton has decided to extend the Olympic qualification period to next year.
In January this year, the world body had approved the use of synthetic feather shuttlecocks at sanctioned international tournaments of all levels from 2021.
The coronavirus outbreak, which has so far infected over 41 lakh people and caused close to 3 lakh deaths worldwide, forced the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to suspend all events, including the Olympic qualifiers, till end of July.
Coach Sanjay Mishra says he tells his wards to try and control the negative thoughts which would also help them deal with tough match situations.
The world championship is an annual event, although not held in an Olympic year. But, with the 2020 Tokyo Games postponed to next year, it will be the first time that the prestigious event will be conducted in the Olympic year.
The tournament was originally scheduled to be held from May 16-24 but on March 20 was postponed to August 15-23 due to the worsening global health crisis which has led to the death of more than 2 lakh people so far.
Earlier this month, the BWF had announced the suspension of a number of HSBC BWF World Tour, BWF Tour and other BWF-sanctioned tournaments which are scheduled to take place in May, June and July.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) had last week sent a letter to BAI, asking it for a slot to conduct the BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, which was suspended last month along with the other Tokyo Games qualifiers due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The campaign provides a platform for players to express their love and respect for badminton by advocating and committing to clean and honest play. Sindhu, an Olympic silver medallist, said playing clean and honest is very important in any sport.
The online programme will be held five-days a week for three weeks and the entire course has been divided into 39 topics, giving an enriching opportunity for coaches at various levels to interact and learn from elite level coaches.
The events affected include the several BWF World Tour events headlined by the Blibli Indonesia Open 2020 (Super 1000) and a number of Grade 3, junior and para-badminton competitions, the world governing body of badminton said in a statement
The coronavirus outbreak has claimed 10 lives and infected nearly 600 people in the country, prompting the government to put the whole country under lockdown till April 14 to fight the spread of the deadly disease.
The Badminton World Federation has suspended all tournaments till April 12 due to the pandemic, which has brought the whole world to a standstill with countries shutting down borders and going into lockdown mode.
The BWF had drawn severe criticism from players for continuing with the All England Championships despite the rising threat of the deadly virus.
Barring the ongoing All England Championships, all badminton events have suspended until April 12.
BAI and the Badminton World Federation (BWF) had issued a joint statement on Wednesday, informing that the event will be held without any spectators due to the global novel coronavirus outbreak.
In a joint statement, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) and Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Wednesday said that the tournament will be held as per schedule.
PV Sindhu has five world championship medals to her name and is the first Indian singles badminton player to win an Olympic silver medal.
Many top players such as two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan, London bronze medallist Saina Nehwal and Rio Olympics quarterfinalist Kidambi Srikanth are racing against time to book their ticket to Tokyo.
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