Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

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5 hours ago, NearPup said:

I wonder, would she have been banned from practicing relay handoffs with the team during her suspension?

How many would she have held?

[Jur 689]

8 hours ago, rybak said:

Did WA published official list of qualified athletes already? No matter what answear will be, if after 5th July someone will withdrew then first underline athlete still can replace this withdrawing athlete? I'm wonder especially in case in discus throw where Martinez from Spain will probably not compete and Polish guy Robert Urbanek is first underline.

There's a weird thing with Martinez, he's still fighting to be selected and could end up in the games still.

[Jur 689]

6 hours ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

@dcro @Jur @Makedonas @JoshMartini007 @LowerSaxony I'm thinking of writing a story about World Athletics denying non-100m athletes universality spots... people deserve to know about it. If anyone knows of any other cases where athletes were denied spots and replaced by sprinters, please let me know! So far we have  Tyrone Smith (long jump) and  Gopi Chandra Parki (marathon), but I bet there could be more.

 

In the 100m start lists, eight athletes I found are specialized in other events, according to World Athletics records.

• Women:  (400m/800m),  (triple jump),  (100m hurdles),  (400m hurdles)
• Men:  (5000m/10000m),  (1500m),  (110m hurdles),  (800m/1500m)

WA doesn't make sense at all. I just found the case of  D'Jamila TAVARES (a not-so-good 3000stp athlete) given an universiality quota in 800m when the country has a much better long jumper in Agate DE SOUSA that also is a 11.81 sprinter (much better than most of the girls that got universiality quotas)......

 

 

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE....

[LowerSaxony 205]

11 hours ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

@dcro @Jur @Makedonas @JoshMartini007 @LowerSaxony I'm thinking of writing a story about World Athletics denying non-100m athletes universality spots... people deserve to know about it. If anyone knows of any other cases where athletes were denied spots and replaced by sprinters, please let me know! So far we have  Tyrone Smith (long jump) and  Gopi Chandra Parki (marathon), but I bet there could be more.

 

In the 100m start lists, eight athletes I found are specialized in other events, according to World Athletics records.

• Women:  (400m/800m),  (triple jump),  (100m hurdles),  (400m hurdles)
• Men:  (5000m/10000m),  (1500m),  (110m hurdles),  (800m/1500m)

Good idea. What media/platform do you plan to use?

As said before, it's an absolute disgrace of WA. F.e. the guy from TLS has a ~14:30 PB over 5000m and might not be world class, but he still has a very decent level (better than >99,99% of the world) and it is absolutely disrespectful to offer such an athlete a place for an event where he has no connection with and - from the point of view of WA - where the athletes least bothers the entire event. Likewise, you don't ask a dressage rider to compete in show jumping because there are no more slots available for dressage.

[stepansevs 219]

There will not be any update of Road to Tokyo today? It Is Wednesday. I waited for it :-D

[Khadidja Aisha 29]

one of theresons i dont like olympicualifing, i think any ne who can pat their way, to olympicgames should to compete on the olympicgames.

[Jack Gonçalves 27]

8 hours ago, Jur said:

WA doesn't make sense at all. I just found the case of  D'Jamila TAVARES (a not-so-good 3000stp athlete) given an universiality quota in 800m when the country has a much better long jumper in Agate DE SOUSA that also is a 11.81 sprinter (much better than most of the girls that got universiality quotas)......

 

 

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE....

Agate is illegal in Portugal and cannot travel outside of the country...

[ahjfcshfghb 296]

4 hours ago, LowerSaxony said:

Good idea. What media/platform do you plan to use?

As said before, it's an absolute disgrace of WA. F.e. the guy from TLS has a ~14:30 PB over 5000m and might not be world class, but he still has a very decent level (better than >99,99% of the world) and it is absolutely disrespectful to offer such an athlete a place for an event where he has no connection with and - from the point of view of WA - where the athletes least bothers the entire event. Likewise, you don't ask a dressage rider to compete in show jumping because there are no more slots available for dressage.

Around The Rings, I am interning there. Thank you everyone for your ideas. Main thing now is to get a quote from one of the athletes. Have reached out to a couple, so will see if any reply, and then a story can be done.

[Jan Linha 632]

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1109912/alex-quinonez-ecuador-suspension-aiu 

 

Would be a really big pity for  Alex Quinonez 

 

I really hope it gets solved and he gets to compete. 

[Indian Sports fan 8]

When will World Athletics update qualification status based on withdrawals?