National committees have final say on qualified athletes for Tokyo games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that athletes already qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will need to be picked again by their National Olympic Committees to compete at the postponed games in 2021.
IOC added that the athletes would keep their qualification but would need to be re-selected for next year by their National Olympic Committee again as they represented a nation and not themselves.
Some 57 percent of the eleven thousand athletes had already qualified for the Tokyo Games this year, before qualification tournaments were scrapped as the virus spread in recent months.
The IOC and Japanese government succumbed to intense pressure from athletes and sporting bodies around the world last week by agreeing to postpone the games by a year to 2021, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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