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The IFSC has announced in a press release that Anouck Jaubert (FRA) and Michael Piccolruaz (ITA) have earned quota places for the Tokyo 2020 Games following the reallocation of two unused Tripartite Commission places.

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Seems incredibly harsh on the two athletes who may well have been looking to qualify through the European champs. IM (basically worthless) O, it seems baffling that the date for allocating commission places wasn't rescheduled once it became clear the regional champs would be rescheduled. 

Thing is, the Japanese organisers have said that they'll pull the games if there isn't a vaccine by next summer. Not sure why they can't push the games back to 2022 instead. Thing is, even if they go ahead next summer, most athletes won't have been able to train properly and/or there could be significant disparity in how much people will have been able to claim depending on their country of residence and what facilities they have at home. This is going to be an issue for all sports. So the more you think about it, the less it makes sense to have the games next summer... 2022 perhaps.

The Beijing Winter Olympics are set for 2022, so that's a major consideration.

Good point but winter and summer used to be in the same year. Where there’s a will...

But it's got to be doubtful, even with a vaccine by next summer. No vaccine will be 100% reliable. And they'd have to insist that every competitor, coach, official etc, plus media and tourist attendees have been vaccinated sufficiently in advance (impossible?) and then quarantine them all for 14 days before the games (impossible?), to not risk another wave. `Behind closed doors' is a possibility, but that only removes the crowd, not the hundreds/thousands of competitors etc etc.

I thought the Tripartate places were going to be allocated to under-represented continents or nations? 

So we end up with Italy and France gaining places.

I'm sure the decision is completely transparent and it's just a coincidence that the President of the IFSC's Italian. 

The IOC creates a list of under-represented nations from the previous two Olympic Games. Since there were no climbers representing these nations at the IFSC World Championships in Hachioji last year, the places get reallocated to the next-highest placed athlete from Hachioji, respecting the country quota of two. 

A national federation for climbing/whichever sport needs to exist in these under-represented countries before qualification to the Olympics is possible. It's most likely that the listed countries don't have climbing federations, or that they weren't interested in applying for a TPC quota place. 

https://worldarchery.org/news/173673/ioc-releases-list-countries-eligible-a...