Boxing Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[NearPup 3,116]

8 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

wtf "the qualification criteria must include an accommodation for women who were pregnant or postpartum during the qualification period"?

Good luck to the IFs for the next Olympics. And why not including special provisions for injuries and sickness?

Tennis’ qualification system does have accommodations for injured athletes and I actually think that’s mostly a good thing.

[Dunadan 1,103]

6 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Tennis’ qualification system does have accommodations for injured athletes and I actually think that’s mostly a good thing.

they have it because they have it in their usual ATP/WTA ranking and there are lots of spots (+ for tennis players Olympics are certainly not the main goal and you can be certain no one will abuse of it) Try coming up with a qualification system that accomodate injuries and pregnancies in canoeing slalom or taekwondo or whatever..

[JoshMartini007 2,554]

28 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

they have it because they have it in their usual ATP/WTA ranking and there are lots of spots (+ for tennis players Olympics are certainly not the main goal and you can be certain no one will abuse of it) Try coming up with a qualification system that accomodate injuries and pregnancies in canoeing slalom or taekwondo or whatever..

 

Having rules where sports must have multiple opportunities to qualify (most already do) and have at least one of them being held in May/June before the Olympics solves most issues outside of injury plagued athletes (in which case you could argue that they may not be 100% fit by the Olympics anyway)

[NearPup 3,116]

I do think the decision is pretty fact specific - you can’t create a qualification system where you denny an athlete the chance to qualify because of a pregnancy that happened three years before the qualification system was published.

[Dolby 735]

Do we have any clarity on which spot she would be taking? American quota? World Ranking quota? Or something else?

[Vic Liu 1,686]

3 minutes ago, Dolby said:

Do we have any clarity on which spot she would be taking? American quota? World Ranking quota? Or something else?

I would call it human right quota if confirmed

[NearPup 3,116]

11 minutes ago, Dolby said:

Do we have any clarity on which spot she would be taking? American quota? World Ranking quota? Or something else?

No clue. When Australia won a court case because the FIBT interpreted their own qualification document wrong before the 2010 Olympics they got an extra spot, so that’s a possibility.

[JoshMartini007 2,554]

The fairest way would be for the IOC to create a quota like they did for the refugee athletes or Saudi Arabian women in 2012 and 2016

[dodge 1,026]

50 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Having rules where sports must have multiple opportunities to qualify (most already do) and have at least one of them being held in May/June before the Olympics solves most issues outside of injury plagued athletes (in which case you could argue that they may not be 100% fit by the Olympics anyway)

I think this is the key. The rankings only came into play this year because of a very specific issue

 

if the qualifying events went ahead, this doesn’t arise at all

[Benolympique 2,398]

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