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Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games


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12 minutes ago, Jan Linha said:

:CUB triple jumper Diaz Fortun removed from the national team for Tokyo as he refused to participate in some European meetings. I suppose it gives quota to :GRE Tsiamis and :SVK Veszelka moves to the first position below the line...

Well that sucks :nopompom: 

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4 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

:CUB triple jumper Diaz Fortun removed from the national team for Tokyo as he refused to participate in some European meetings. I suppose it gives quota to :GRE Tsiamis and :SVK Veszelka moves to the first position below the line...

39 years old and going back to the Olympics after making his debut in 2008!

 

He is currently injured still but he's been going to physical therapy and hoped to be back last weekend for the Balkan Championships but didn't make it in the end. Happy in the end that he can make it to Tokyo (would've been a shame if his injuries + those suspicious athletes from some ex-Soviet countries would've kept him out). He deserves this. I hope he's healthy and can go to Tokyo.

 

I think that's it for Greece now, after today's basketball game we will know the total number going to Tokyo unless we get 1 or 2 extra spots in swimming via OST, I'm not sure how likely that is but we got 2 OST spots for Rio. Also I think we have a female gymnast who is next in if someone withdraws. 18 yo Elina Tzengko in the women's javelin is still 3 out so I don't think she can make it but we'll see. Looks like in the end we might end up with 94-95 athletes after having 93 in Rio (depending on today's basketball result), something that didn't seem possible just a few weeks ago.

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5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Talking about sucking, apparently Athletics Kenya is trying to kick out the number two at the trials, while the top-2 was supposed to automatically qualify (with the third spot being up to the selectors).

 

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This was discussed during the DL today. The pretext, or reason, is that he has not been involved in the Kenyan drug testing regimen for the required length of time. Don’t know whether this comes from Athletics Kenya or WADA or whoever.

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