JoshMartini007 2,557 Posted July 5, 2021 #1761 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Unsurprisingly not every nation's best athlete is a 100m runner. Once World Athletics saw how many World Ranking athletes would miss out they changed the rules to force as many nations into the 100m events. Makedonas 1 Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerSaxony 205 Posted July 5, 2021 #1762 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 7/5/2021 at 2:01 PM, JoshMartini007 said: Once World Athletics saw how many World Ranking athletes would miss out Expand What a surprise. They allow universality spots while restricting the number of participants. If they were not able to account for this in advance, that's blatant incompetence and ignorance. Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted July 5, 2021 #1763 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 7/5/2021 at 1:47 PM, LowerSaxony said: 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. Expand Same with the gender equality. The IOC hinted they would overhaul the WA system and essentially 'guarantee' that every nation would be eligible to enter a man and a woman at the very least. Nothing of the sort has happened. LowerSaxony 1 #banbestmen Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted July 5, 2021 #1764 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Granted, the IOC also messed up here? Per the qualification system, 100 m universality spots should have been no different than the other universality spots. Ranking qualifiers should have been removed in their favor. But then they made this unfortunate exception for the 100 m events, which was probably approved by the IOC to begin with... stefanbg 1 #banbestmen Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,557 Posted July 5, 2021 #1765 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 7/5/2021 at 2:11 PM, dcro said: Granted, the IOC also messed up here? Per the qualification system, 100 m universality spots should have been no different than the other universality spots. Ranking qualifiers should have been removed in their favor. But then they made this unfortunate exception for the 100 m events, which was probably approved by the IOC to begin with... Expand I imagine it was a compromise between the two. I bet WA would love to have added on to each event like they did for the 100m, but that would have easily pushed them above 1900 athletes. Even now, they may go above that number depending on how many relay-only athletes are selected. Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 5,786 Posted July 5, 2021 #1766 Share Posted July 5, 2021 What a mess a further 50 quota spots will need to be found in 2024.... Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 2,184 Posted July 5, 2021 #1767 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 7/5/2021 at 1:47 PM, LowerSaxony said: 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. Expand That's like Kristina Alvertsian from Armenia who is a triple jumper but will be running in the 100m, which she never ran in her entire life until last week Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jur 683 Posted July 5, 2021 #1768 Share Posted July 5, 2021 I dont get why just put those athletes in their events. You're going over the limit want it or not, at least gave the best athlete of each country a try. I read thta the athlete their federation propose where all marathonians and WA rejected their quota and asked them to invite their best 100 athlete instead. Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted July 5, 2021 #1769 Share Posted July 5, 2021 It's clearly to limit the costs for the hosts, a 100m runner takes less space in the Olympic village and eats less. Gianlu33, Makedonas, MHSN and 1 other 4 Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted July 5, 2021 #1770 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 7/5/2021 at 3:25 PM, Jur said: I dont get why just put those athletes in their events. You're going over the limit want it or not, at least gave the best athlete of each country a try. Expand Apparently they are doing all of this to "protect" those 44 non-100 m universality athletes... Because if they put them too over the limit, then additional 44 quotas would have to be added as well... And to think football got 100+ late quotas just like that... This is scandalous. If it concerned some big nation (or involved cannabis), it would make all the headlines, but now nobody will even scratch into this story. #banbestmen Link to comment https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/922-athletics-qualification-to-tokyo-2020-summer-olympic-games/page/177/#findComment-391903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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