Instead of stating the case against her make one for her? I promise you there will be a much longer list. You have NO IDEA what her timetable to return is LOL She was injured June 3rd - 4-6 weeks is a timetable not an absolute. Even 6 weeks puts her in the 2nd week of July. It was announced Taurasi would be out AT LEAST 4 weeks at the end of May. See the issue? I'm not saying Taurasi shouldn't be on the team. I'm saying Nneka should be on the team! You can't use injury as an excuse for one and not another. That's a BS answer or some would say hypocritical. She was a core player and a lock if the Olympics weren't postponed. It makes no sense and most people know that.
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Instead of stating the case against her make one for her? I promise you there will be a much longer list. You have NO IDEA what her timetable to return is LOL She was injured June 3rd - 4-6 weeks is a timetable not an absolute. Even 6 weeks puts her in the 2nd week of July. It was announced Taurasi would be out AT LEAST 4 weeks at the end of May. See the issue? I'm not saying Taurasi shouldn't be on the team. I'm saying Nneka should be on the team! You can't use injury as an excuse for one and not another. That's a BS answer or some would say hypocritical. She was a core player and a lock if the Olympics weren't postponed. It makes no sense and most people know that.
Carol Callan steps down from USA Basketball weeks after Tokyo roster selection, Nneka Ogwumike outrage
Callen out.
Glad the ****** is gone. She screwed Parker and asked her to lie about it. Asked Candace to say she was scared of the Zika virus and didn't want to be on the Olympic team. Callen should have been kicked out 4 years ago for bowing down to Auriemma. Good riddance.
Callen out.
Glad the ****** is gone. She screwed Parker and asked her to lie about it. Asked Candace to say she was scared of the Zika virus and didn't want to be on the Olympic team. Callen should have been kicked out 4 years ago for bowing down to Auriemma. Good riddance.
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Hey do you kn how many half Nigerians in America? If Nigeria bring in all yes they will win. Do u realize that former lady vols Gloria Johnson is half Nigerian.. Do u kn how many NBA players that are half Nigerians.. Track and field don't even go there. Nigeria is more than 200 million and the biggest in Africa that's why it's called Gaint of Africa. They also have biggest population in the world not just America. Do u kn how many of them in wnba..They have not even contacted Ogunbowale, Onyenwere, and America already scare. Watch and see after this friendly match They might drop and add new players. I blame American because if they drop star players from Nigeria, Nigeria run in to grab their daughters.
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Who qualifies for the Olympics for a specific country ?
Under Rule 41 of the Olympic Charter, all athletes must hold citizenship in the country for which they compete. It is up to each nation to extend nationality to athletes. Some will grant citizenship if the athlete has parents or grandparents who were citizens of that country, or allow an athlete who has dual citizenship to switch from one country’s team to another’s (with restrictions). Others will allow an elite athlete, even those with no family or ethnic ties to the country, to circumvent the normal citizenship process and will grant them citizenship in advance of an important international competition.
If an athlete wants to compete for a different nation, it must be at least three years after they last competed for their country of origin.
A competitor who has represented one country in the Olympic Games, in continental or regional games or in world or regional championships recognised by the relevant IF, and who has changed his nationality or acquired a new nationality, may participate in the Olympic Games to represent his new country provided that at least three years have passed since the competitor last represented his former country. This period may be reduced or even cancelled, with the agreement of the NOCs and IF concerned, by the IOC Executive Board, which takes into account the circumstances of each case.[1]
At the 2018 Olympics, roughly 6 percent of the athletes, or 178 Olympians, competed for a country they weren't born in.
It would be up to Germany to grant you German nationality. Whether the process can be expedited may be a function of how valuable you are to Germany’s Olympic efforts. If you have previously represented the USA in international competition, your application to compete for Germany once you have gained citizenship may or may not be accepted by the German Olympic Committee and may also have to be approved by the international governing body of the sport in which you want to compete.
All of which assumes that you have the talent and credentials to compete at an Olympic level …
Why Some Olympians Compete Against Their Home Country
Why some Olympians can compete for countries they are not from
Footnotes
[1] Sporting nationality and the Olympic Games: selected issues by Yann Hafner (University of Neuchâtel)
It seems sort of fluid these days. Apparently you could move to another country and say that you might like to live there, and if they decide that their rules allow it, you might be able to compete on their Olympic team. There are more and more weird stories about that kind of thing.
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