Athletics Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Jur 689]

Just now, Benolympique said:

It ´s official ?

Published by World Athletics in their Road To Paris tool: https://worldathletics.org/stats-zone/road-to/7153115?eventId=10229534

[Benolympique 2,414]

can these countries which had a wild card in marathon obtain other quotas in athletics? THANKS

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

Two issues.

 

1) That's presumptuous of World Athletics that none of those nations could qualify in other events thus invalidating their quota.

2) Nations can only get one universality quota so  or  can't be qualified in both men's and women's marathon.

 

The same thing happened in 2020. Universality quotas showed up and disappeared for a while.

[Jur 689]

5 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Two issues.

 

1) That's presumptuous of World Athletics that none of those nations could qualify in other events thus invalidating their quota.

2) Nations can only get one universality quota so  or  can't be qualified in both men's and women's marathon.

 

The same thing happened in 2020. Universality quotas showed up and disappeared for a while.

 is probably qualifying in Men's Long Jump, for example.

 

But for other natios I get it, marathon needs a lot of training and quotas can't be announced too late.

 

And about  and  , they already broke that rule last year. They do it if they want. For example they gave a quota to  in both men's 1500 and womens 200 last olympic games. So it's not uncommon. Also,  guy likely qualifies by world ranking as he's #81. He only needs one person rejecting their place

[Benolympique 2,414]

13 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Two issues.

 

1) That's presumptuous of World Athletics that none of those nations could qualify in other events thus invalidating their quota.

2) Nations can only get one universality quota so  or  can't be qualified in both men's and women's marathon.

 

The same thing happened in 2020. Universality quotas showed up and disappeared for a while.

So there’s no point in counting quotas?

[Benolympique 2,414]

15 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Two issues.

 

1) That's presumptuous of World Athletics that none of those nations could qualify in other events thus invalidating their quota.

2) Nations can only get one universality quota so  or  can't be qualified in both men's and women's marathon.

 

The same thing happened in 2020. Universality quotas showed up and disappeared for a while.

no country can have 2 Wild cards?

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

34 minutes ago, Jur said:

But for other natios I get it, marathon needs a lot of training and quotas can't be announced too late.

 

Makes sense, maybe they should designate it as "standby" along with the people just barely missing the cut so they know not to stop training, but at the same time it doesn't make it look like they are officially qualified. It's quite clear they took the top 20 currently eligible universality athletes and gave them notice.

 

 

36 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

So there’s no point in counting quotas?

Maybe not for specific events, but it's clear they will be offered a quota to compete in an event.

[dcro 10,210]

Looks like Bhutan will break the ice and compete in athletics for the first time.

 

Other than that, these nations have competed in marathon in the past, but not really since the 1980s and 1990s. I guess marathons are reverting back to large number of flags like it was back in the day, since the World Athletics made it a preferred event for the universality spots.

[Dragon 2,026]

I think World Athletics have made a terrible mistake here.

Yaseen Abdella  has never run a road race and never competed above 5000m

[prso1000 721]

Filip Pravdica 

8.35m Long Jump