All for nothing: Athletes qualify but end out of Olympics

MADRID (AP) — One of the world’s top-ranked taekwondo fighters is taking vacation in the Dominican Republic instead of competing at the Tokyo Olympics after being surprisingly excluded from the Games by the Spanish federation. Jesús Tortosa is among a few athletes worldwide who earned Olympic qualification but won’t be in Japan because in some sports the final decision on picking the teams is made by the local federations. Similar cases happened in the English badminton team and in the Russian fencing squad. A couple of Japanese climbers secured their spots only after a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.