According to the AFP news agency, all active persons who have qualified for the Olympics will be able to retain their seats. Despite the summer games being moved from summer to next year due to the global spread of the corona virus.
It was decided at a telephone conference on Thursday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and 32 international sports federations participated.
- Thomas Bach (IOK) first explained why the games are being moved forward and then said that active ones qualified for Tokyo 2020 will automatically qualify for 2021, one of the participants at the conference told AFP.
Of a total of 11,000 active at the upcoming Olympics, about 57 percent, ie just over 6,000 active, have qualified so far.