Australia has pulled out of the final baseball qualifying tournament for the Tokyo Olympics due to "insurmountable" challenges amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the sport's national governing body said.
The decision comes less than a week after Taiwan's withdrawal from the June 22-26 tournament in Puebla, Mexico, which was moved from Taiwan due to a spike of novel coronavirus cases in the Asian nation.
"Attending the Final Olympic Qualifier in a COVID world was always going to present significant challenges," Baseball Australia Chief Executive Glenn Williams said in a statement.