The Southeast Asian Games Federation has decided to postpone the 2021 Hanoi Games due to the rising COVID-19 pandemic.
The 31st SEA Games originally scheduled to be held from November 21 to December 2 in Hanoi, has been postponed to 2022 due to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.
Vietnam, who is set to host the SEA Games for the second time after the 2003 edition, has previously listed 520 events from 40 sports for this year’s Games.
The biennial games, which first started in 1959, have only ever been disrupted once in 1963, when Cambodia could not host the multi-sport games due to political instability.
