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Swimmer Luke Gebbie out of SEA Games after testing positive for COVID-19

Filipino swimmer Luke Gebbie tested positive for COVID-19 just before his entry to Hanoi, Vietnam making him ineligible to compete in the 31st Southeast Asian Games which start next week.

Gebbie, a gold medal prospect for the Philippines, was supposed to be one of the 16-member aquatics team to Hanoi.

Gebbie, who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, bagged the silver medal in the men’s 4×100 meters freestyle relay and bronze in the 50 meters freestyle in the 2019 SEA Games.

He also owns the national record in 100m freestyle (49.64 seconds), which he set in the qualifying heats in Tokyo, along with the 50m freestyle (22.57 seconds) and 50m butterfly (24.34 seconds) records which he set in the biennial meet in the country three years ago.

“Too bad he tested positive,” Philippine Olympic Committee President Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino said on Saturday. “That’s one less medal—a potential gold at that—in our campaign.”

According to the POC, three other Filipino athletes in kickboxing initially tested positive for the virus but were cleared after a retest early last week.

The kickboxing team, led by members of the famed Team Lakay stable, kicks off its campaign on Sunday.

https://sports.inquirer.net/461223/swimmer-luke-gebbie-out-of-sea-games-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19

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OCA Press Release on Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 and Shantou Asian Youth Games 2021

Following detailed discussions with the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) and the Hangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (HAGOC), the OCA Executive Board (EB) today decided to postpone the 19th Asian Games, which were scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China, from 10 to 25 September 2022. The new dates of the 19th Asian Games will be agreed upon between the OCA, the COC, and the HAGOC and announced in the near future.

HAGOC has been very well prepared to deliver the Games on time despite global challenges. However, the above decision was taken by all the stakeholders after carefully considering the pandemic situation and the size of the Games.

The name and the emblem of the 19th Asian Games will remain unchanged, and the OCA believes that the Games will achieve complete success through the joint efforts of all parties.

Additionally, the OCA EB also studied the situation of the 3rd Asian Youth Games, which was scheduled for 20-28 December this year in Shantou, China. After discussion with the COC and the Organising Committee, the OCA EB decided that as the Asian Youth Games had already been postponed once, the Asian Youth Games Shantou 2021 will be canceled. The next Asian Youth Games will therefore be held in 2025 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 

The OCA thanks Shantou Organising Committee for its great work during the preparation phase. We strongly believe that this effort will be beneficial to many different aspects of the development of the city, especially in the field of sport as well as for the promotion of the Olympic spirit in Asia.

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