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Mora Romero is the fellow from Cuba who moved to the UK I think. Someone will correct me on that.

How did the reallocation for the male supers work? Why do Jo can skipped for Kucera and Seim?

Part of me wanted to see Dika Toua get one more chance to ride off into the sunset, but now Nicola Lagatao gets a chance to taste the Olympic dream.

Hawkpeter wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:55 pm Mora Romero is the fellow from Cuba who moved to the UK I think. Someone will correct me on that.

How did the reallocation for the male supers work? Why do Jo can skipped for Kucera and Seim?

Part of me wanted to see Dika Toua get one more chance to ride off into the sunset, but now Nicola Lagatao gets a chance to taste the Olympic dream.

You are correct, Romiro Mora is the Cuban now living in the UK. The other refugee is Yekta Jamali, former Iranian lifter also living in the UK.

Jo is skipped as Korea has made their 3 mens selections at 73, 89, 102.

The reallocation of the men's top 10 super from Ziazulin to Kucera was done retroactively with no changes to top 10 and continental slot rankings as they were previously finalised.

Seim is lucky in that the IOC didn't pick a universality slot. there, so it rolled over to the next highest ranked athlete.

It's interesting that the top 10 was not redone and subsequrntly the continental was not rerolled. I imagine USA may possibly try to contest the way it was done at CAS, as there is representation of all continents other than Pan-America. There is at least a logical case there, though I don't know the background legal details that would make a case plausible or implausible.

strapping wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:10 am
Jo is skipped as Korea has made their 3 mens selections at 73, 89, 102.

Ah of course.

Interesting thing about the universality pick of Nicola Lagatao, is that she didn't do the mandatory competitions. I thought that was a stipulation, I must have been mistaken.

Anyway, looks like we actually have a start list now for each category.

Hawkpeter wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 1:03 am Ah of course.

Interesting thing about the universality pick of Nicola Lagatao, is that she didn't do the mandatory competitions. I thought that was a stipulation, I must have been mistaken.

Anyway, looks like we actually have a start list now for each category.

The universality slots are an IOC project, which they theoretically should consult the IWF about though they don't have to. It is a totally separate process to the main qualification system.

The qualification requirements for the Universality slot are almost zero, in terms of competition. The selection criteria is heavily based around inclusion of countries that are underrepresented at the Olympics and I imagine Guam would have very low representation at the Olympics. Financial support is obviously a heavy restriction as qualification through top 10/continental means enormous costs per athlete, hence why the 5 participations wasn't mandatory for the Universality slot.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles ... proaches-s

Bad news for TKM

https://www.justice.gov.md/en/content/a ... -including

Not sure if I've already mentioned this here, but the Moldovan Olympic Committee is going to CAS to try to get the results overturned to get Marin Robu the 89kg bronze. However, I don't believe they have a case.

The IWF followed their rules to the letter, in a legal sense, even though the outcome is bullshit. CAS will most likely say it was a "Field of Play" decision that they can't change.

The cat is finally out of the bag from news at Junior Worlds.

Three Tunisian weightlifters and one Iranian weightlifter have escaped, whereabouts "unknown" (not unknown, but not public for safety reasons). They are not in danger.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzAxNj ... 5&scene=27

Weightlifting museum opened in Shilong, Dongguan province, China. There appears to be a competition to mark its opening.

Liu Mengjia 55kg 16 y/o snatched 99kg, 1kg over JWR and 3kg under Li Yajun's 102 national and non DPRK world record

It's the "minor" nationals held in each year's autumn. 45/49 was yesterday.