dodge 943 Posted Thursday at 11:46 AM #1031 Share Posted Thursday at 11:46 AM 1 hour ago, mpjmcevoy said: GBR are still haunted, I think, by the twin spectres of Atlanta 1996 and Eddie the Eagle Edwards. Most cuontries didn't care how GBR did in Atlanta, but in GB it was a national humiliation at the tail end of a government that was itself a kind of by word for a national malaise, while Eddie, while popular, was also deeply cringe for a country that wanted to be taken seriously, but increasingly just wasn't. In the last few years, GB was supposed to have relaxed a bit from the frightening level of ruthlessness that the new era created - the success of GB in new sports has come at some cost in terms of ethics and athlete welfare with a series of scandals in cycling, swimming, gymnastics, bobsled etc That monomaniacal push for medals seems to have reduced a bit, and I personally expect the medal count to reduce significantly as a result, but one place it seems to continue to hold is selection policy (tight purses is also a factor ) with a series of perfectly respectable international class athletes set to miss out, including a couple of youngsters who might be world class soon (the two hammer lads spring to mind here) IMHO it is ridiculous. And it particularly annoys me when Australia and South Africa do it too. The flip of that is there are loads here who complain about “free” quotas for Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,941 Posted Thursday at 02:17 PM #1032 Share Posted Thursday at 02:17 PM Sorry if this was answered already (it's hard to go through 100+ pages), but when will WA start showing rejected quotas on the Road to Paris? I remember for the Road to Tokyo they were updating it every day after the qualification period so we gradually saw athletes move into qualifying positions. Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copravolley 145 Posted Thursday at 02:26 PM #1033 Share Posted Thursday at 02:26 PM 8 minutes ago, Makedonas said: Sorry if this was answered already (it's hard to go through 100+ pages), but when will WA start showing rejected quotas on the Road to Paris? I remember for the Road to Tokyo they were updating it every day after the qualification period so we gradually saw athletes move into qualifying positions. Probably 7 July will be final list. I read that. Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Linha 581 Posted Thursday at 02:34 PM #1034 Share Posted Thursday at 02:34 PM 17 minutes ago, Makedonas said: Sorry if this was answered already (it's hard to go through 100+ pages), but when will WA start showing rejected quotas on the Road to Paris? I remember for the Road to Tokyo they were updating it every day after the qualification period so we gradually saw athletes move into qualifying positions. I was asking myself the same question. I think the final reallocation should be on July 9th if I am not mistaken. Also keep checking the list Road to Paris but so far no change. Maybe they won't really do one by one but as a big update at once. I guess the earliest may come something tomorrow. Czech team has already confirmed all the athletes today so maybe they also waited for the official confirmation from WA. So I suppose that WA is collecting all the lists and later will update who moved up. I am currently waiting for the possible changes in 4 disciplines so keep updating several times a day. I guess if there is no update in about an hour, then earliest we may expect tomorrow late afternoon. Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,941 Posted Thursday at 03:26 PM #1035 Share Posted Thursday at 03:26 PM Yes, I remember for Tokyo they updated little by little, it was more exciting that way, I guess now it will be done all at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 191 Posted Thursday at 06:11 PM #1036 Share Posted Thursday at 06:11 PM Andy Pozzi has decided to retire due to injury and has rejected his place at the games. Benolympique and Braulio 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jur 640 Posted Thursday at 07:21 PM #1037 Share Posted Thursday at 07:21 PM Mohammed DWEDAR got one of the men's 800 universality places https://www.facebook.com/palestinPAF/posts/pfbid02NJ1FADwqgxFN9yx5418MTRoCqp837dYCqTRucm39J6VKSfEAY1agmPrNVjjgJcaFl Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 280 Posted Thursday at 07:35 PM #1038 Share Posted Thursday at 07:35 PM 7 hours ago, dodge said: The flip of that is there are loads here who complain about “free” quotas for Australia I have some sympathy for that, but that's a slightly different issue, the obvious cure for which is to make qualification four broad zones, all of around 50 nations - Pan-American, European, African (or African/Middle Eastern if Africa is too weak on its own), Asia-Pacific If athletics wanted to bring in an unambiguously continental element, I'm here for that too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,400 Posted Thursday at 09:26 PM #1039 Share Posted Thursday at 09:26 PM 10 hours ago, Orangehair43 said: And I suspect it will get even stricter. I can see Athletics having the same time rule as swimming soon - the time needed to make the top 8. Don't give the IOC any idea, soon they will only allow eight athletes per event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jur 640 Posted Thursday at 09:34 PM #1040 Share Posted Thursday at 09:34 PM Since qualified two male quotas by ranking (Catrofe in 5000 and Lasa in Long Jump), I guess they are going to lose their Marathon Univerdality quota. Ironically, they dont have a women's quota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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