Islamabad
Pakistan Taekwondo Federation (PTF) has informed World Taekwondo that it is willing to its athletes to compete at this year’s World Junior Championships.
The world game’s governing body in an online survey has asked the taekwondo playing nations to apprise as whether or not their athletes will be able to participate in this year’s World Junior Championships.
World Taekwondo has already announced that it was hoping to stage the Grand Prix Finals and Gala in Cancun in November as planned. The organization also said that the World Junior Championships and the World Taekwondo General Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria in October are also set to be held as scheduled.
“The organization has sought our comments in an online survey. We’ve told them that we are ready to send our athletes, but certain issues may deny our participation in the event,” Col (R) Waseem Ahmed told APP.
“The organization has also inquired about the coronavirus situation in our country and we’ve updated them.”
Waseem said the organization was also told that in the prevailing situation the government had not allowed to hold training camps. “We’ve also told the organization that Pakistan was also among the countries whose citizens are not allowed to enter Europe for six months [due to the coronavirus pandemic].”He said that even if a decision is taken to ease travel restrictions for Pakistani athletes, the federation would face difficulties to arrange their participation in the event as it was suffering from scarcity of funds. —APP
