China follows Japan in withdrawing women from UWW Asian Championships over COVID concerns

By Mike Rowbottom China's women pulled out of the United World Wrestling (UWW) Asian Championships in Almaty on the eve of their competition today and were due to have left Kazakhstan by tonight. The UWW quoted a team official as saying that the Chinese women had been “undergoing two days of testing by the Chinese embassy” in the Kazakhstan capital. It was the latest blow to the women's event following Japan's decision not to send its team because some of the team’s members were suspected of having come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19. Wrestlers from North Korea were…