Inside the Games: Qualified athletes for Tokyo 2020 to keep their places at rearranged Olympic Games
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by Liam Morgan, Inside the Games
Athletes who had qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will keep their places at the rescheduled event after it was postponed until no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) gave the guarantee on a teleconference call with 33 International Federations yesterday, multiple sources familiar with the talks told insidethegames.
It is expected that the athlete quotas for each sport will remain the same following the decision to delay the Games after the World Health Organization warned the COVID-19 pandemic was accelerating.
The IOC said last week that 57 per cent of the 11,000 athletes had qualified for Tokyo 2020.
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Editor's Note: In wrestling, the United States, through the UWW qualifying process, has qualified to compete in 15 of the 18 weight classes contested in wrestling in Tokyo, the most of any nation. At this time, United World Wrestling has not yet announced how it will conduct the rest of the qualification process for wrestling. Three of the continental Olympic Qualifiers (Asia, Europe, Africa/Oceania) as well at the World Olympic Qualifier (also called Last Chance) were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Click for updated Olympic Games wrestling qualification through March 16
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) gave the guarantee on a teleconference call with 33 International Federations yesterday, multiple sources familiar with the talks told insidethegames.
It is expected that the athlete quotas for each sport will remain the same following the decision to delay the Games after the World Health Organization warned the COVID-19 pandemic was accelerating.
The IOC said last week that 57 per cent of the 11,000 athletes had qualified for Tokyo 2020.
Click for full Inside The Games article
Editor's Note: In wrestling, the United States, through the UWW qualifying process, has qualified to compete in 15 of the 18 weight classes contested in wrestling in Tokyo, the most of any nation. At this time, United World Wrestling has not yet announced how it will conduct the rest of the qualification process for wrestling. Three of the continental Olympic Qualifiers (Asia, Europe, Africa/Oceania) as well at the World Olympic Qualifier (also called Last Chance) were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Click for updated Olympic Games wrestling qualification through March 16
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