The International Badminton Federation (BWF) would have done without this. After calculation errors in the race to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, the BWF announced, this Friday, April 19, that it will ultimately not be the duo Ronan Labar – Lucas Corvée who will compete in the Olympics in the French capital, but brothers Toma Junior Popov and Christo Popov.
A new calculation rule launched in 2023
“The processing error is linked to the implementation of a new rule that came into force in 2023 regarding the calculation of points during team tournaments, based on the average of players’ points and bonus points for matches won », explains the federation in its press release to justify the new calculation carried out, fatal, therefore, to the Labar-Corvée pair. This calculation error concerns a tournament played in May 2023 in China.
In our columns, Jérôme Careil, national technical director, confided his dismay at this grotesque situation. “It’s not incomprehension, it’s amazement. This remains linked to a calculation error, in a competition which took place one year ago, at the start of the Race. We say to ourselves that this distorted the entire qualification and apparently, we would not be the only country concerned. We are experiencing the worst because it changes the names of those qualified. »
Procedures could be launched by the French Badminton Federation, announces The Team . Because the International Federation must publish the official list of results on April 30. Which leaves a possible little room for maneuver. “I don’t know in what state we will emerge from these twelve days, announces Jérôme Carneil. These are issues which will undoubtedly go far beyond the French framework and which will perhaps lead to an unprecedented decision. In the meantime, they (the International Federation) are getting us into trouble and are also doing it on their own. »
2024-04-19 18:37:28
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