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Jamma 2021 | The government may decide next week to postpone the announcement of the Hong Kong Horse Preparatory Committee

2021-08-13T09:12:04.717Z


The annual event in Hong Kong running, the Hong Kong Marathon has been suspended for one session and is scheduled to resume in October this year, but it is still awaiting government approval. The news stated that this Thursday was originally a dead line, considering whether to announce the event, but now it is decided to postpone it to the next


The annual event in Hong Kong running, the Hong Kong Marathon has been suspended for one session and is scheduled to resume in October this year, but it is still awaiting government approval.


According to the news, this Thursday was the dead-line, considering whether to announce the event, but now it has been decided to postpone the decision until next week, waiting for the government's reply.


The organizer posted a post on the official facebook page this afternoon, stating that "I hope that there will be good news announcements early next week."

The post stated that the conference has been discussing details with all parties, "every effort will be made to balance public health with the feasibility of resuming the event.

The Hong Kong Horse Preparatory Committee and the Hong Kong Athletic Association (General Manager Tian) held a press conference early last month to announce that the 2021 Hong Kong Horse will be held on October 24. The form and scale of consultation with the Home Affairs Bureau have been submitted and the preliminary plan has been obtained Agree and wait for details such as implementation of epidemic prevention measures.

Tian's Chief Executive Officer Wu Yuhao said at the time that he hoped to get approval from the end of last month to the beginning of this month in order to accept applications in the first half of this month.

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It is still doubtful whether Hong Kong and Malaysia can resume the operation this year.

(Information Picture/Photographed by Li Zetong)

However, the news stated that the government has not given the "green light", and the organizer has not yet announced the details of the event and how to register.

Until recently, the organizer considered that the deadline is approaching and intends to decide whether to hold the event yesterday.

The organizer hadn’t received the government’s approval yesterday, so it was announced today that this year’s event will not be held.

The public is looking forward to the resumption of the marathon, but the government has yet to approve it.

(Information Picture/Photographed by Li Zetong)

Sources said that the government won’t make a decision until next week, so the organizers will wait until next week to announce the details.

According to last month’s press conference, this year Hong Kong and Malaysia are expected to have about 18,000 runners participating, and 8,000, 6,000 and 4,000 runners will be arranged for 10km, half marathon and full marathon respectively. The registration fee is the same as in 2020, which will be 360 ​​yuan, 400 yuan and 450 yuan, in addition, a 50 yuan administrative fee for epidemic prevention is charged for runners to arrange hand sanitizer and other epidemic prevention materials.

For the sake of epidemic prevention, this year's race plans to change the 10 km race to the West Tunnel to start. For the time being, let's leave the grand occasion of the east corridor running together.

(Information Picture/Photographed by Li Zetong)

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Source: hk1

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