Los Angeles, May 29 (AFP) The 2022 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships will be "deferred" to 2026 to accommodate changes in the international calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada, one of four Pan Pac charter nations along with Australia, the United States and Japan, will still host the event.

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The one-year postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has made for a jammed international calendar, with 2022 already scheduled to include the Commonwealth Games July 27-August 7 in Birmingham, England and world governing body FINA moving the 2021 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, to May 13-29, 2022.

Organizing a third major championships in that window "presented several challenges," Swimming Canada noted in announcing the new plan on Thursday.

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"We are looking forward to hosting this event, but in the bigger picture, everyone can benefit from the decision to defer the Pan Pacific Championships by four years," Swimming Canada President Cheryl Gibson said.

"The Pan Pacific Championships will remain a benchmark event in the future," Gibson added of a competition conceived as a way to provide a major international meeting for countries not eligible for the European Swimming Championships.

"We now look forward to hosting a great event in 2026, welcoming our fellow Charter Nations Australia, Japan and Team USA, as well as other guests from around the world for a celebration of our sport at its best." (AFP) ATK ATK 05291001 NNNNey will be pushed into the ‘financial ruin' and even forced to commit suicide.

Senior party leader Daljit Singh Cheema said only custodial interrogation of the seed supplier could unravel the entire scam and demanded an independent probe into it.

SAD leaders said even a fortnight after the scam came to light, no attempt has been made to raid the unit which allegedly supplied spurious seeds.

The leaders further said seeds, which earlier cost Rs 70 per kg, were sold at Rs 200 per kg to farmers by the “scamsters”.

A raid was conducted at a seed store in Ludhiana and more than 750 quintals of seed packaged as PR-129 and 100 quintals of seed packaged as PR-128 were seized, they said.

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