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Hong Kong quarantine ‘may cause 2023 dragon boat championships to move to Thailand’
- World Dragon Boat Racing Championships’ organisers already querying whether they can hold event in Hong Kong next August, Legislative Council member says
- ‘If Hong Kong’s pandemic restrictions remain behind, it is hard to keep moving forward,’ Kenneth Fok Kai-kong admits
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The 2023 World Dragon Boat Racing Championships could be moved from Hong Kong because the sport’s global federation is concerned about the city keeping its Covid-19 quarantine requirements in place, according to a Hong Kong lawmaker.
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Arrivals in Hong Kong must undergo quarantine in a designated hotel, with the duration having recently been reduced from seven days to three plus four days of monitoring.
Discussion of Hong Kong’s ability to host sporting competitions has centred on whether the quarantine requirement will remain in place and whether some events can instead take place in a “closed loop” – the format used for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and potentially an alternative to quarantine.
But the organisers of the dragon boat championships are already questioning the feasibility of holding an event in Hong Kong as far ahead as next August, Legislative Council member Kenneth Fok Kai-kong has said.
The championships have been cancelled in Hong Kong before, in November last year, because of the pandemic.
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