Organizers for the 2020 Freediving World Series announced this week that, which ability of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opponents has been canceled.
Per a put up on the Vertical Blue Facebook web negate:
“Primarily based on the fresh space, and following as a lot as this level guidelines supplied by both the World Correctly being Group (WHO) and native governments of countries wherein our events will happen, it is a long way with disappointment that we must mumble that the Freediving World Series is per chance now not held in this year 2020, and that the occasion scheduled for Kalamata in September has needed to be canceled.”
Ongoing scuttle restrictions private meant that many athletes from countries exterior Europe won’t be ready to pass to Greece in August in time to originate up training for an occasion in mid-September.
“This means that, per CMAS regulations, the occasion can now not be organised as section of a ‘World Series/Championship.’
“On high of this logistic constraint, we even private as our first precedence the safety and health of our Athletes and we are able to now not bustle a world opponents of this magnitude if now not the full Athletes will private the chance to steal part staying protected at some level of their travels and trainings.”
One little bit of true news is that there’s a likelihood that Vertical Blue might perchance moreover happen from October 20th-30th, however a last determination about this won’t be announced till August 16th.
“If it does trail ahead then Vertical Blue would be a stand-on my own occasion, and assist as a ‘prelude’ for the 2021 Freediving World Series.”
John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/
John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving malicious program while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification within the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Soar of Costa Rica, and different locations including a pool in Las Vegas helping to spoil the field sage for the best underwater press convention.
