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Athletics Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016


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The United States has a lot of depth in athletics outside of the race walks, though even that is starting to get developed. So far the only other events which don’t have at least three athletes reaching the standard are men’s hammer throw, men’s javelin, women’s triple jump and women’s javelin.

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3 minutes ago, dareza said:

Mihail Dudas in back after two hard operations and very long pause. 8174 on Serbian championship today with disaster weather on day 1.

vazno je da se vratio posle svih povreda :clap:

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It is reported that sprinter Hannah Cunliffe may be on the verge of switching to represent Italy,

She has run 10.99 for the 100m this year.

The American could qualify because her great, great grandfather was born in Italy but checks still have to be made.

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35 minutes ago, Dragon said:

It is reported that sprinter Hannah Cunliffe may be on the verge of switching to represent Italy,

She has run 10.99 for the 100m this year.

The American could qualify because her great, great grandfather was born in Italy but checks still have to be made.

 

Are they allowed to go back that far? I though it was just parents and grandparents.

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1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Are they allowed to go back that far? I though it was just parents and grandparents.

 

yes, for the Italian law you can go back as long as you want...the only important, fundamental feature is that the full bloodline did never quit the Italian citizenship...

however, also her grandfather by her mother's side was Italian (the bloodline reported by Dragon is her father's side)...

 

*there is a very hard dispute here in Italy about this advantage that blood heritage has in our laws...many people would like to give an easier route also to the socalled "iure soli", which at the moment has a lot harder requirements to satisfy in order to become Italian (typical situation: a couple coming from outside the EU needs 10 years of continuative residence to earn our citizenship...and their children, if they were born abroad before they came to Italy, can't have the Italian citizenship until their 18th birthday**...and it's not an automatic procedure..they have to ask for the Italian passport)...

 

**to make a sport related example, that's why Italy couldn't start Mario Balotelli in the Football Olympic Tournament in 2008 (he wasn't 18 yet...and so he didn't have the Italian passport, yet)...

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21 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Kenya is about to be declared non-compliant by WADA which could make it go the way of Russia.

 source ? ...this could be big news if it happens 

strength does not come from physical capacity but from an indomitable will. - Gandhi

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