You are trying to change the rules on people who qualified under the current system.
You are trying to change the rules on people who qualified under the current system.
RichardRider wrote:
You are trying to change the rules on people who qualified under the current system.
I'm not trying anything. I'm expressing an opinion which will have no bearing on anything that actually happens. But sometimes when circumstances change you need to do something differently.
No you don't. Circumstances haven't changed enough for the marathon.
Cost of putting on the race, time between trials and Olympics is irrelevant with a year or less time frame, justice to those that played by the rules and earned their spot are all enough reasons to keep the team as is.
No need for a redo.
RichardRider wrote:
No you don't. Circumstances haven't changed enough for the marathon.
Cost of putting on the race, time between trials and Olympics is irrelevant with a year or less time frame, justice to those that played by the rules and earned their spot are all enough reasons to keep the team as is.
No need for a redo.
Exactly, there's absolutely no "need" driving any other option. Why people feel at all unsettled about this is unclear, except that feelings of fear and unsettling about the general state of affairs are affecting their mindset.
Demonstrating fitness is not a redo. There wouldn't be another trial. They'd need to meet some predetermined time in some race.
RichardRider wrote:What happened to the 1980 team was deplorable as well. Put yourself in their shoes if you can even try imagining what that might be like.This was different. The Games were not cancelled. The 1980 Games were held in Moscow. The USA decided not to compete. Other nations did, such as Great Britain where Steve Ovett and Seb Coe ran great races. You only have the USA to blame for not choosing to participate.
Yet the affect on the athletes would be quite similar: robbed of opportunity by bureaucrats.