Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Moscow?

[jlt]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

Now that Blake has withdrawn the wildcard for the 100m will most likely go to Bolt.

Kind of irrelevant now that Bolt is already the 100m national champ.

But does the wildcard mean a 4th member from a country can go? Or is that just the winner?

gh is entirely correct. If Jamaica uses Bolt's 100m wild card, they can enter a 4th man in the Moscow 100.

Thanks tandfman most of us are aware of how a wild card works but that wasn't actually the point GH was making! He was responding to my post and clarifying the ranking order or otherwise betw WCH Gold 11 and DL winner 12 (the impression I had been clearly given was that WCH winner definitely takes preference over DL winner (in the case that a country has both)). An interesting example is Kenya where Kemboi won in Daegu and Koech won DL last year. I hear that both believe they have wild card to WCH!

Shivfan's comment "now that Blake has withdrawn the wild card for the 100m will most likely go to Bolt" is correct in the sense that yes it does go to Bolt but that is because he won the DL, not as is implied (ie by the comment 'most likely'!!) because the Jamaicans elected to give it to Bolt. If for some reason Bolt was not able to compete (heaven forbid!) then the Jamaicans couldn't give it to someone else. In that situation they could only have three 100m runners.

[tandfman]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

I think we're all on the same page now (except perhaps for the Kenyan steeplechasers). I've commented on the situation in the Yohan Blake thread.

[ATK]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

You should have added the winners of the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, who also get wild cards, since there is no hammer throw in the Diamond League. Also, you've omitted the women's hammer throw entirely.

That made me think, Is there any series of meets of competitions that the IAAF would allow an athlete in the decathlon/heptathlon to earn a wild card for worlds?

[tandfman]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

You should have added the winners of the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, who also get wild cards, since there is no hammer throw in the Diamond League. Also, you've omitted the women's hammer throw entirely.

That made me think, Is there any series of meets of competitions that the IAAF would allow an athlete in the decathlon/heptathlon to earn a wild card for worlds?

No.

[gh]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

if the Hammer Challenge is worth a wild card, why aren't the winners of the Multi-Event Challenge?

[ATK]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

if the Hammer Challenge is worth a wild card, why aren't the winners of the Multi-Event Challenge?

That's what I'm wondering. I'm not familiar with the multis and the series they have. But it just seems that it would not make sense for the IAAF to omit this athletes from the wild card opportunity.


Also another thing, but I assume this year's champion gets nothing.

[shivfan]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

Thanks tandfman most of us are aware of how a wild card works but that wasn't actually the point GH was making! He was responding to my post and clarifying the ranking order or otherwise betw WCH Gold 11 and DL winner 12 (the impression I had been clearly given was that WCH winner definitely takes preference over DL winner (in the case that a country has both)). An interesting example is Kenya where Kemboi won in Daegu and Koech won DL last year. I hear that both believe they have wild card to WCH!

Shivfan's comment "now that Blake has withdrawn the wild card for the 100m will most likely go to Bolt" is correct in the sense that yes it does go to Bolt but that is because he won the DL, not as is implied (ie by the comment 'most likely'!!) because the Jamaicans elected to give it to Bolt. If for some reason Bolt was not able to compete (heaven forbid!) then the Jamaicans couldn't give it to someone else. In that situation they could only have three 100m runners.

That's how you misinterpreted my post....it is obvious from the earlier discussions that we were discussing Jamaica giving the wild card to Bolt in his capacity as DL winner for 2012. I don't know where you've drawn the conclusion about Jamaica giving the wild card to anyone else other than Bolt.

[shivfan]

Re: Is there a list of athletes who have WILDCARDS for Mosco

The rules as I understand them mean that Nesta Carter is now in....

With the news now confirming that Blake is out, and that the wildcard is likely to go to Bolt (as DL winner), that means that Carter should be in for the individual 100m....

"Contrary to persistent rumors, multiple relay gold medallist Nesta Carter has not failed a drugs test and is preparing for upcoming meets, including the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia next month, his agent Adrian Laidlaw told the Jamaica Observer yesterday. Carter, who ran a season's best 9.87 seconds to win a 100m race in Madrid, Spain on Saturday, making him the fastest Jamaican man this year and second only to under fire American sprinter Tyson Gay, was linked in several international media houses with failed drugs tests starting on Sunday."


Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Oh ... z2ZIMybX8R

That 9.87 was just barely legal, though, wasn't it?