The Hong Kong Men's Basketball Team has determined that it has failed to obtain qualifications for the Hangzhou Asian Games this year, and was absent for the first time since 1958.
Comprehensive Sing Tao Daily and "Hong Kong 01" reported that due to the restructuring of the event, the Hong Kong men's basketball team disappeared from the Asian Games in August.The statement said that the party has been actively coordinated with relevant organizations, but the team failed to qualify for participating in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The statement said that the members of the Hong Kong Association Division arrived in Hangzhou on Sunday (September 10) to prepare for the Hong Kong delegation. Then they immediately contacted the relevant personnel and were confirmed by the Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee.The five -player basketball team failed to get qualifications to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Hong Kong Association and the Olympic Committee emphasized that the meeting has made the greatest effort and regrets that the qualifications that failed to participate in the Asian Games will later notify the relevant groups and teams.
The Hong Kong Association stated that the men's basketball team was not eligible.However, media reports said that in the basketball project, in the past three Asian Games, the top 12 teams in Asia have directly obtained the right to participate, and four other teams have qualified for peripherals.rise.
According to previous reports of the South China Morning Post, relevant sources of the International Basketball Association revealed that the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee has requested the competition to restructuring in June to cancel the peripheral competition.
According to media statistics, the Hong Kong men's basketball team has been in the 16th Asian Games since the Tokyo Asian Games in 1958. It has never been absent. This session will be the first absence.
