https://www.fai.org/news/2020-asian-oceanic-paragliding-xc-championship-cancelled?type=node&id=24473

The 1st FAI Asian-Oceanic Paragliding XC Championship scheduled
for December 2020 in Bright, Australia is cancelled, due to the current and
ongoing worldwide crisis surrounding the Covid-19.

David Snowden writes:

‘It is with great disappointment that, on behalf of the organizational
committee, we are taking this decision. We have been made aware that Australian
national borders will remain closed for international travel for an undetermined
period. We can surmise that this restriction is likely to continue through 2020
and prevail several months into 2021. There are also likely to be ongoing
restrictions to travel from particular listed or countries with high infection
rates. As well as the obvious risk of reintroducing infection from overseas, we
believe the event would not have fair representation from several eligible
Asian-Oceanic nations in the event of selective restrictions to entry into
Australia.

This is clearly a “force majeure” “for the reason of significant risk to the
safety of the participants” or “any other situation in which the safe and
appropriate conduct of the event is no longer objectively warranted.”

We fully appreciate the offer from CIVL/FAI to postpone the championships to
2021 or 2022. At this time we remain unable to assure the health and safety of
pilots, organizational staff and community in the 2021-22 time frame. We
therefore regretfully withdraw from the bidding process.