Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[heywoodu 15,145]

13 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

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.

That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified.

[Dragon 1,844]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified.

 

[heywoodu 15,145]

10 minutes ago, Dragon said:

 

Ugh. It's both so unsurprising and so sad that Athletics Kenya is basically just an awful and incredibly incompetent federation.

[dodge 1,024]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified.

Maybe they wanted him in the programme so they can give him the good stuff 

[intoronto 5,643]

 

Interesting...

[dcro 10,210]

Yeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic.

 

Bermuda will have two athletes then....?

[Grassmarket 3,409]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified.

Seemingly Kenya are under a special jurisdiction as a consequence of a long series of unfortunate misunderstandings, contaminated beef, people taking prescriptions meant for their grandmother or her dog etc etc & it is not quite as simple as all that. 

[intoronto 5,643]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic.

 

Bermuda will have two athletes then....?

All in the name of improved results!

[Grassmarket 3,409]

3 hours ago, Dragon said:

 

All too common in African sports where things hum along smoothly enough for three years & eleven months but break down when vouchers for first class air tickets & five star hotel rooms arrive at the Ministry of Sports.

[LowerSaxony 205]

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic.

 

Bermuda will have two athletes then....?

Actually, the athlete from Timor Leste who got an universality place for the 100 meters is a 5000m runner. Guess he's not the only one. It's a shame. All that WA/IOC wanna have is as most flags as possible and the pretense of universality - they do not care about the athletes AT ALL.