Swimming New Zealand has nominated open water swimmer Kane Radford to the New Zealand Olympic Committee to be considered for selection to the Rio Olympics.
Radford appealed after he was initially not nominated by Swimming New Zealand who did not believe his performances at the Nomination Events (being world championships last year where he was 30th and the final Olympic qualifying race in Portugal where he was 19th to miss direct qualification) were sufficient to show he was capable of a top 16 finish with the potential to win an Olympic Diploma (Top 8) at Rio.
The Sports Tribunal (hearing the appeal under urgency) believed that more weight should been given to the swimmer’s view that his chances in Portugal were seriously impeded 250m from the finish by another swimmer who was disqualified for his tactics. Accordingly Radford believed he would have finished “further up the field.â€
The Tribunal also commented that the selectors should have also given more weight to his third placing at the Pan Pacific Championship last year and other World Cup performances rather than heavily weighting their decision on his finish at the World Championships and Olympic Qualifier event.
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