Unversality is a separate category, and it can only be used by a NOC when there are no qualifiers from that country by standard or ranking (where they can enter one athlete) or the only qualified are from one gender (where they can enter one athlete of the opposite gender). So, the men's marathon universalities for Uruguay and Cyprus can't be used if Emiliano Lasa from Uruguay makes the long jump and Milan Trajkovic from Cyprus makes the 110m hurdles.
BREAKING: Leonard Korir not going to Paris! 11 Universality athletes get in ahead of him!
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Jonathan Gault and Rojo's story is now up on the matter. JG talked to coach Scott Simmons and he's not giving up hope:
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Possibly looks like four athletes have been included on qualified by world rankings including CJ Albertson's spot for the US (will be taken by Korir) and also Liam Adams from Australia.
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The U.S. Olympic marathon team is officially set!
The U.S. unlocked a third spot, granting U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials third-place finisher Leonard Korir a ticket to the #ParisOlympics.Leonard Korir is officially heading to the Paris Olympics.
After four months of uncertainty, USA Track & Field (USATF) has confirmed that Korir, a 2016 Olympian, has been added to the U.S. Marathon team for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Korir placed third at U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in February, but since the U.S. men had only unlocked two of a possible three spots on the Olympic team at the time, Korir was initially left on the outside looking in, as Conner Mantz and Clayton Young secured their spots.
This week, World Athletics and USATF announced that the third spot has been unlocked and reallocated to Korir. The Paris Games will represent Korir’s second trip to an Olympics, after placing 14th in the 10,000m at Rio 2016. Korir finished fourth at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta, where he missed out on a spot on the Tokyo team by just three seconds.
Korir, a native of Iten, Kenya, joined the U.S. Army in 2015 and has been part of its World Class Athlete Program in Colorado Springs.
Korir, Mantz and Young will race in the Olympic men’s marathon on August 10.This post was edited 1 minute after it was posted.20
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