Monday, March 5, 2012

Volleyball championship to go ahead in Mexico

A high-profile women's volleyball championship will go ahead this summer in Mexico despite concerns about the recent outbreak of swine flu.

The outbreak has been blamed for 68 deaths in Mexico and 10 elsewhere.

The FIVB, volleyball's governing body, said Monday that its women's junior world championship would be played in the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali on July 16-25, as scheduled.

"The FIVB's crisis management unit has been closely monitoring the situation regarding the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, in Mexico and elsewhere around the world and …

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