The A/B Olympic standards are 2:15/2:18 right? So that means any of these 2:15-2:16 guys would be strong Olympic hopefuls if they just ran for a weaker country. I don't know enough about the selection process in other countries though.
The A/B Olympic standards are 2:15/2:18 right? So that means any of these 2:15-2:16 guys would be strong Olympic hopefuls if they just ran for a weaker country. I don't know enough about the selection process in other countries though.
The UK standards have been tightened to 2:11/2:15
Canada A is 211 or 212
Kenya is accepting 2:06-2:08
Japan is going to take 2:09:00
A standard is 2:20/B standard is 2:22
Peter Gibbons wrote:
A standard is 2:20/B standard is 2:22
Thats not what he asked
Anybody know what Ireland would take?
If you run the A standard you can run in the Games. They don't send athletes with a B standard if I remember correctly.
The New Zealand standard hasn't come out yet but it was 2.15.00 in 2004. However, athletes will only be selected if they are considered to be among the world's top 16 and are capable of finishing in the top eight at the Games so it is probably faster this time round. Sucks big time
although this is the us selection procedures it clearly outlines the iaaf rules stating that if no athetes have achieved the olympic a standardthe top fifnishing b standard achiever in the trials will go
insomniac wrote:
If you run the A standard you can run in the Games. They don't send athletes with a B standard if I remember correctly.
Wrong - Nils Antonio could not hit the US "B" standard in 1996 but he also has Jamacian citizenship by virtue of a parent. He ran the marathon for Jamaica in Atlanta but has lived most if not all of his life in the US. College at a D3 school.