We all know the phenomenon of exotic athletes in the first rounds of the Olympics, like the 100 m guy from Samoa, jogging it in 13.5 seconds and later participating in the shot put, too.
Question is: according to which rules were they able to qualify in the past, and would it be possible in the future?
Obviously they don't have neither the qualifying standards nor some kind of IAAF ranking. Is there some kind of wild card or something?
Disappointment am I. I thought this was going be about pole dancing at the Olympics.
There is some rule that allow any country that wishes to participate in the Olympics to have 1 entrant in a certain number of events.
The 100 meters is one event(and maybe the marathon, as the only running events). That is why they will have very early rounds, with no one advancing, before any of the competitive rounds begin.
They use to allow it in more events, but then you would have some guy running 8:30 for the 1500 and getting in the way.
I think that swimming has an event ( 50 meters probably).
The idea is to promote the Olympics, and allow for the tiny countries' "Olympic Committee" to communicate and gather information form the other countries.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
2017 World 800 champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse banned 1 year for whereabouts failures