Diving World Cup in Jalisco canceled over public safety concerns

The Diving World Cup lawsuit scheduled to instrumentality spot adjacent week successful Jalisco has been canceled, but Mexico’s National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (Conade) and the Jalisco authorities authorities are lobbying World Aquatics to proceed with the lawsuit arsenic planned, or, failing that, alteration the venue.

World Aquatics — the planetary federation that administers planetary swimming and diving competitions — announced its determination connected Wednesday aft consultations with Aquatics Mexico, the Mexican Federation of Diving and High Diving and the Jalisco Council for Sports Development (CODE Jalisco).

Conade president Rommel Pacheco, a erstwhile Olympic diver himself and a golden medalist astatine the 2016 World Diving Cup, has joined President Claudia Sheinbaum successful efforts to get the planetary diving authorization to support the lawsuit successful Mexico, possibly by selecting an alternate site. (Conade)

The lawsuit was scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine the Zapopan Aquatic Center, Mexico’s nationalist diving grooming hub, conscionable westbound of Guadalajara, the authorities capital. Guadalajara and different regions of the authorities experienced sizeable unrest and unit pursuing a subject cognition to seizure a notorious cause kingpin past Sunday.

World Aquatics said the determination took into relationship question restrictions issued by overseas embassies successful Mexico, immoderate of whom rescinded authorization for their nationalist teams to participate.

“The information and information of each athletes remains a cardinal precedence for World Aquatics,” it said.

Conade President Rommel Pacheco said his organization is urging World Aquatics to see alternatives successful Mexico City, Veracruz oregon Yucatán “so that our women and men divers tin vie astatine home.”

Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus said the determination to cancel was not solely based connected the hazard assessment, since his authorities lowered alert levels connected Tuesday. He told reporters that logistical complications resulting from this past weekend’s disturbances were besides responsible.

“China has sizeable power successful the World Diving Federation and they asked that the lawsuit beryllium postponed owed to aerial connectivity issues,” helium said. 

Lemus said that on with Conade and CODE Jalisco helium is asking China not to importune connected the cancellation of the competition.

Along with the cancellation, World Aquatics said that qualification for the May 1-3 Diving World Cup Super Final successful Beijing would beryllium based connected the results of the contention presently taking spot successful Canada.

These events are each portion of the qualification process for the 2028 Summer Olympics and Conade is acrophobic that the nonaccomplishment of a contention — particularly 1 astatine location — would beryllium detrimental to the diving team’s preparations. Along with archery, the diving squad is 1 of Mexico’s astir palmy Olympic squads.

With reports from La Jornada, Excelsior, Swimming World Magazine and the CBC