The Short Course World Swimming Championships will be held in Melbourne next week.
Australia had stepped in to host Russia's Kazan.
The war in Ukraine has thrown the international competition calendar upside down.
However, the ban on Russia came too quickly for some associations.
They couldn't manage to reschedule the events.
In a number of sports, the competitions have therefore had to be canceled without replacement in the past few months.
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