The Aliann Pompey Invitational (API) will be suspended pending the announcement of the new date for the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
This is according to a release sent out by API.
This year’s API was originally scheduled for June 4 at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, West Coast Demerara.
Given the fact that this year’s API forms part of the World Athletics Continental Tour for the calendar year and is a major part of the preparation for athletes looking to qualify for Tokyo 2020, the release said that they want to ensure that the event offers athletes from around the world, the best possible way, without hindrance, a chance to make their Olympic dream true.
The IOC announced the postponement of the Games to take place no later than a year from the scheduled date and as such, API wants to leave the door open to the possibility of having the meet, should the Games be held sometime sooner than next summer.
Nonetheless, API will follow the lead of World Athletics, the South American Athletics Confederation, the National Sports Commission and the Athletics Association of Guyana, and adhere to the requirements and recommendations of the World Health Organization, as well as regional and local health officials, which have joined with the rest of the sporting world in battling the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic.
