Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Jan Linha 590]

If one athletes qualifies in 2 events and wants to keep both quotas, it means 2 quotas for one athlete. Should not one spot be reallocated? Showing an example of Jakob Ingebrigtsen....

[hckošice 14,829]

[PHI2019 262]

The last time someone at the Olympics was disqualified for marijuana use was in 2012 when judoka Nick Delpopolo tested positive after eating marijuana brownies. Remember that incident? Here's his story.

 

I'm the guy who was disqualified from the Olympics for eating a pot brownie - Vox

[Grassmarket 3,408]

Taking over from Richardson will be Jenna Prandini, who was fourth in the trials & already in the 200m team.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9748245/American-sprint-sensation-set-MISS-Tokyo-Olympics-testing-positive-cannabis.html

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, Jan Linha said:

If one athletes qualifies in 2 events and wants to keep both quotas, it means 2 quotas for one athlete. Should not one spot be reallocated? Showing an example of Jakob Ingebrigtsen....

Sadly no. There are target numbers per event which can't be extended in case of double starters (only if too many qualify directly and/or with universality spots).

[Werloc 3,164]

5 additional Lithuanians have qualified through the rating system:

 

Airinė Palšytė - high jump (3rd Olympics)

Liveta Jasiūnaitė - javelin throw 

Agnė Šerkšnienė - 400m

Adrijus Glebauskas - high jump

Gediminas Truskauskas - 200m

 

Four of these athletes are Lithuanian record holders. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

10 hours ago, dcro said:

Félicien Muhitira thrown off the Olympic team. Can Rwanda even afford that?

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1109656/rwanda-athlete-banned-tokyo-2020-covid

Seriously makes you wonder what went on in his head. I mean, one can find the measures too strict or whatever, everyone knows they're there and what the consequences can be of breaching them, meaning being thrown off the Olympic team must have been a risk he was actively willing to take.

[Nickyc707 382]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

I trust this isn't a selfie, hckošice? Watch out for the out of contributing drug testing. ??

[Nickyc707 382]

3 hours ago, PHI2019 said:

The last time someone at the Olympics was disqualified for marijuana use was in 2012 when judoka Nick Delpopolo tested positive after eating marijuana brownies. Remember that incident? Here's his story.

 

I'm the guy who was disqualified from the Olympics for eating a pot brownie - Vox

GB tennis player Dan Evans who is going to Tokyo was banned for a year for cocaine use.

 

"Evans was banned from playing professional tennis due to testing positive for cocaine in April 2017. Evans claims that he took a relatively small amount of cocaine out of competition, but that some permitted medication he was taking was then 'contaminated' by the cocaine because he accidentally put the leftover cocaine in the pocket of his washbag, thus testing positive in-competition. Evans was eligible to return to the professional circuit on 24 April 2018, having completed a one-year ban."

 

Sounds like Richardson may get off much more lightly even if she does miss the OG.

[hckošice 14,829]

46 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

I trust this isn't a selfie, hckošice? Watch out for the out of contributing drug testing. ??

no, I would never have had such a dull haircut in my life.