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Hocker does NOT NEED THE STANDARD BECAUSE HE HAS A HIGH ENOUGH WORLD RANKING HE IS GOING TO THE OLYMPICS 100%. It's actually mind-boggling that people are still asking this question. It has been discussed on the boards for weeks now, even this thread has the information in it.
Agree it's mind boggling, but blame NBC for that somewhat. They never really acknowledged that you could get in by world rankings and were endlessly talking about the standards. I honestly think it was dumb for Abbey Cooper to do what she did. Then you have the girl who got 5th in Disc but has standard making a huge deal like her Olympic dreams were taken from her. Well how did you or your agent not know the actual process.