Joost Luiten is hoping to signify the Netherlands within the 2024 Olympics.
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Longtime DP World Tour professional Joost Luiten’s lengthy highway again to the Olympics seems to be full, due to a profitable courtroom case in opposition to his personal nation’s Olympic committee.
In case you missed it, every week in the past the Related Press reported that the Netherlands Olympic Committee (NOC) and Netherlands Sports activities Federation had denied Luiten and three different Dutch golfers the fitting to signify their nation within the upcoming Olympic Video games in Paris.
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However what made the state of affairs much more irritating for Luiten, who beforehand competed within the 2016 Olympics, was that he had already efficiently certified for the Olympic golf competitors. Qualification is predicated on the Official World Golf Rating, with the top-two gamers from every nation incomes spots within the Olympics, which will increase to 4 gamers if all of them are ranked within the High 15.
However the NOC has its personal stricter qualification guidelines, requiring golfers to be within the prime 100 within the OWGR or prime 40 within the Worldwide Golf Federation rating. When qualifying ended, Luiten was No. 147 within the OWGR and No. 40 within the IGF rating.
The NOC argued that Luiten and the opposite golfers didn’t have “an affordable likelihood” to complete within the prime 8 on the Olympics.
Early on Tuesday, Luiten had taken to Instagram to announce he was going to courtroom over the NOC’s choice, writing, “I can be combating the choice to not ship me to the Olympics by the NOC/NSF. We are going to put our case in entrance of a decide and get an impartial judgement!!!”
Based mostly on one other Instagram Luiten posted in a while Tuesday, it seems the Dutch courtroom sided with him, ruling in opposition to the NOC.
Within the second publish, an exuberant Luiten wrote, “The Olympic rings are coloured once more. I’ve WON the Courtroom case and the @NOCNSF should enter me earlier than 5PM right this moment!!! LET’s GO @olympics”
He adopted it up with one other publish exhibiting him standing in entrance of the courthouse, together with the observe, “SPECIAL DAY TODAY! Going to the olympics. verry pleased with the victory in courtroom.”
At this level it’s not clear whether or not the ruling applies to the three different Dutch golfers denied Olympic berths, or if the NOC formally registered Luiten as an Olympian. The 2024 Olympics Males’s golf competitors begins Thursday, August 1.
