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The thing is, shooting has been on the Commonwealth Games program longer than a quite a few of the core sports. It’s omission as core sport raises some questions, especially since the core sports program was recently reworked. It might not be the most well known Olympic sport, but shooting enjoys a high participation rate at both the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. For instance, all had entries in shooting, when they didn’t even have entries in many of the core sports. Also, with electronic scoring, compelling finals format, and good graphics, it’s not too hard to follow in-person or on television.

WADA sanctions didn’t apply to continental championships.

While checking around for various team announcements, I came across the following statement from the Bermuda Olympic Association…

2 Athletics - 1 Canoe Slalom - 1 Source: http://www.coa.ad/delegacio-andorrana-pels-proxims-jocs-olimpics-de-toquio-2020/

Wheelchair Tennis entry list: https://event.itftennis.com/media/319255/319255.pdf

Right, but Mboma ran a 400m just a few days ago, and set her best time. If she was a DSD athlete, she would have already had to have lowered her testosterone level to compete at that meet, and thus that wouldn’t be a problem for the Olympics. The only thing I can think of is this is the Namibian federation trying to kept an ace(s) up their sleeve for down the line, but even that doesn’t make much sense. This could perhaps also be her coach’s decision. Sometimes coach’s have a set plan for developing their athletes, and so they’ll reject participation in bigger events from time to time in order to follow that plan for success.

According to a statement posted by Samoa’s NOC on their Facebook page, they still plan to participate in the 2020 Olympic Games, but their domestically based athletes and officials/coaches/management team will not make the trip to Tokyo.

have confirmed that they will be withdrawing their weightlifting team in compliance with a government decision on travel during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

That’s essentially the point I’m making. My posts were just to point out flaws with the current qualification system.

Yeah, Guam’s NOC President brought up similar concerns earlier this week. Source: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1109507/guam-noc-covid-19-fiji

Worth noting that an official at Triathlon Canada was recently sanctioned due to a Safe Sport violation… Source: https://triathlonmagazine.ca/news/matt-sharpes-statement-about-suspension-of-triathlon-canada-coach-cites-world-triathlon-investigation/

This part is confusing though… Those are two very contradictory sentences. I think Samoa has some athletes based outside the country, and my guess is the meeting is to decide wether or not to allow them to participate.

According to Panam Sports, Adriana Díaz and Brian Afanador will be the flagbearers for

That’s one of the main problems with this system. What does World Athletics consider “higher level events?” Like Gittens said, the level of the SEC Champs was higher than many events rated above it. Also, many “higher level events” are invitation only, so if you don’t have a good agent, promoter, or federation you’re essentially shut out of a qualification opportunity. Additionally, the world ranking doesn’t actually award athletic performance, it awards circumstance like I said above. There were multiple situations were an athlete had a much higher mark than those ranked ahead of them, yet they were ranked lower just because they didn’t attend some super fancy, exclusive, invite only athletics meet. If World Athletics actually wanted to increase the standard of competition, they’d use the “top lists” instead of the world ranking. If you reward athletes based purely off performance, it’s hard to see how athletes won’t be motivated to better each other’s marks. I’d argue the current system isn’t fair because all athletes don’t have the same opportunities. Plus, just because a system might be equally terrible for many athletes, it doesn’t make it a fair system. The current system might be equal in some ways, but it’s definitely not equitable.