The new European champion in the men’s 10,000 meters, Dominic Lobalu of Switzerland, has been invited by the IOC to run at the Paris Games next month for the Olympic Refugee Team.
I don’t see any more recent news. The Road to Paris has listed Lobalu as a Swiss athlete in the lead-up to publishing the final list, and he has competed as Swiss , eg at the European championships, but the IOC wouldn’t allow it because he does not have a Swiss passport. He quit the refugee team back in 2019. He “accepted” the invitation to rejoin on jun 28; by July 2, federations had a deadline to accept their spots, and world athletics reallocated accordingly. Maybe there was a bureaucratic snafu in formalizing his acceptance, or updating that it was the refugee team, not the Swiss, who would be accepting or declining his spot. If it wasn’t his fault, maybe it can be fixed. But at best he waited until the last minute to accept the invitation, so he was likely hesitant to do so, and maybe he never officially did accept…
Can we agree this is the lamest and most drawn out (and probably completely unknown to the NARP public) process for choosing an Olympic team?
You know what would be cool? 1 meet every 4 years in the USA where the top 3 in each event go to the Olympics.
NARPs that watched the trials and actually got invested are going to be so focused when 4th place runners from the trials show up at the Olympics ready to race.
Yes, agree. Blame IOC for cutting the number of T&F competitors and blame WA for their overly complicated and ineffective points system.
They should at least let countries reallocate unlocked spots in every event (not just marathon) or preferably revamp the whole thing.
This very thread explains repeatedly why it isn't as simple as this. Because USATF honors the Trials order of finish,USATF will send Wolfe if we're able to, but he's on the cusp of being eligible or not by ranking, so if after scratches he still isn't high enough in the rankings to qualify, we literally cannot send him. Then we go back down the Trials finish order, and Blanks is next, and he has the auto standard so we send him instead. It's not USATF's choice, in effect the "decision" will be made by other nations scratching or not scratching athletes ahead of Wolfe.
After filtering through four pages of inconsequential nonsense, above two sentences from post #26 succinctly answers the Wolfe vs Blanks question posed by the OP.
There were five US distance teams whose compositions were initially unknown:
We now (7/6) know:
-- Mantz-Murphy-Korir comprise the US men's Marathon team
-- Rooks-Wilkinson-Corrigan comprise the US men's Steeplechase team
-- Cranny-Schweizer-Morgan comprise the US women's 5000 team
-- Kelati-Valby-Schweizer comprise the US women's 10,000 team
Thus, the only remaining question is who -- Wolfe or Blanks -- will accompany Fisher and Nur on the men's 5000 team.
As poster #26 stated above, declarations and scratches submitted to World Athletics following conclusion of races on the June 30th closing of the Paris Olympic qualifying window will determine who makes the team.
And that -- if WA follows its own stated timeline -- we will know on July 7th; i.e., within a few hours.
You’re using “comprise” incorrectly. I.e. Cranny—Schweizer—Morgan COMPOSE the US women’s 5k team. The US women’s 5k team COMPRISES Cranny—Schweizer—Morgan. The parts compose the whole; the whole comprises the parts.
I'd say this is a big party of the lack of popularity of Track as a spectator sport in the United States-- the sham-fakery of an Olympic trials where the loser advances and the winner stays home.
People do not trust an opaque process, decided by out-of-sight gatekeepers, behind the scenes, with who-knows-what-orifices getting greased.
I'd say this is a big party of the lack of popularity of Track as a spectator sport in the United States-- the sham-fakery of an Olympic trials where the loser advances and the winner stays home.
People do not trust an opaque process, decided by out-of-sight gatekeepers, behind the scenes, with who-knows-what-orifices getting greased.
If you don’t know or understand the rules for qualifying maybe it seems that way. Educate yourself, read the rules of qualification and then it’s very easy to see. The USA cannot send a runner that 1, doesn’t have the world standard or 2, doesn’t have the world ranking. It’s not difficult
After filtering through four pages of inconsequential nonsense, above two sentences from post #26 succinctly answers the Wolfe vs Blanks question posed by the OP.
There were five US distance teams whose compositions were initially unknown:
We now (7/6) know:
-- Mantz-Murphy-Korir comprise the US men's Marathon team
-- Rooks-Wilkinson-Corrigan comprise the US men's Steeplechase team
-- Cranny-Schweizer-Morgan comprise the US women's 5000 team
-- Kelati-Valby-Schweizer comprise the US women's 10,000 team
Thus, the only remaining question is who -- Wolfe or Blanks -- will accompany Fisher and Nur on the men's 5000 team.
As poster #26 stated above, declarations and scratches submitted to World Athletics following conclusion of races on the June 30th closing of the Paris Olympic qualifying window will determine who makes the team.
And that -- if WA follows its own stated timeline -- we will know on July 7th; i.e., within a few hours.
You’re using “comprise” incorrectly. I.e. Cranny—Schweizer—Morgan COMPOSE the US women’s 5k team. The US women’s 5k team COMPRISES Cranny—Schweizer—Morgan. The parts compose the whole; the whole comprises the parts.
His use of the word “comprise” was correct, being a verb that means “constitute”.
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