Dutch golfer Joost Luiten might have gained a courtroom case to get into the Paris Olympics however his unused quota spot has been crammed and the Worldwide Olympic Committee won’t make an exception, the Worldwide Golf Federation (IGF) mentioned on Tuesday.
Luiten took the Netherlands’ Nationwide Olympic Committee to courtroom final week after they denied him from coming into the boys’s golf occasion regardless of being eligible, believing his world rating, which was 147th on the time, gave him little probability in a 60-player area.
However when the IGF, which makes use of the Official World Golf Rating as a technique of figuring out eligibility, acquired notification of Luiten’s courtroom ruling within the Netherlands and his entry from the Netherlands’ Nationwide Olympic Committee his unused quota spot had already been reallocated.
“However, in an effort to help Luiten, the IGF sought an exception from the IOC to extend the sphere measurement of the boys’s Olympic golf competitors from 60 to 61 rivals to incorporate Luiten, nonetheless the request was denied by the IOC immediately,” the IGF mentioned in a press release. “The IGF has suggested Luiten of the IOC’s choice, and he has not knowledgeable the IGF whether or not he intends to pursue this matter additional.”
The highest 15 world-ranked gamers are eligible for the Olympics, with a restrict of 4 gamers from a given nation.
Past the highest 15, gamers are eligible based mostly on the world rankings, with a most of two gamers from every nation that doesn’t have already got two or extra gamers among the many prime 15.
Luiten is fortieth within the Olympic rankings.