Postpone the Euro Olympic qualifiers

As it was possible to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympics one year it is hard to understand why not the qualification can be postponed a couple of months?

Austria has already informed their athletes that safety is more important than to qualify to Tokyo 2021. Now also France has said they will not send any athletes and some other countries are only sending athletes that compete in Combined. As some countries have closed their gyms, clearly the event deciding who are going to Tokyo will partly be based on unfairness.

It is now less than three weeks until the European Championship starts in Moscow and as everyone knows there is a big risk that it will not take place. I bet many athletes are not eager to fully commit to Speed training etc. Possibly, there will be many drop-outs based on the current starting list in the last minute. I mean, the event will take place for nine days so in any case, you will have to be out of your country and home for two weeks. Then possibly you will have to go for a long period of quarantine and in the worst case have to spend some weeks in a Moscow hospital with Covid-19.

If there is absolutely no juridic possibility to have the qualification in 2021, IFSC should make the Euro Championship as only an Olympic qualification. This would in practice mean max 20 male and female competing over four days. If this is not possible, then cancel the event and give the Olympic tickets to Jernej Kruder and Jenya Kazbekova, based on their results in the World Championship last year. (c) Eddie Fowke