India offers to host Olympic Boxing Qualifiers in New Delhi after Wuhan cancellation due to Coronavirus outbreak

The qualifiers are scheduled from February 3 to 15 but the schedule has now become uncertain following the health crisis in Wuhan, which has so far claimed 17 lives and infected over 550 people.

New Delhi: The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has offered to host next month's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in New Delhi after the tournament got cancelled in the Chinese city of Wuhan following the outbreak of coronavirus.

Coronavirus outbreak

The qualifiers are scheduled from February 3 to 15 but the schedule has now become uncertain following the health crisis in Wuhan, which has so far claimed 17 lives and infected over 550 people.

"...due to any reason, if the event is to be shifted to a different country, Boxing Federation of India would be willing to host this Asian and Oceania Qualification Event 2020," BFI President Ajay Singh stated in a letter to the Chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Task Force (Boxing) Morinari Watanabe.

Events that are cancelled in Wuhan due to Coronavirus outbreak

"We propose to organise this event at K D Jadhav Indoor Hall, Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex, New Delhi, where we earlier hosted the AIBA Elite Women's World Boxing Championship in November 2018," he added.