LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The United States, Russia and China were each given an extra entry to the Olympic women’s gymnastics competition in Tokyo on Wednesday after the coronavirus pandemic forced a shake-up in qualifying.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) said it was canceling its all-around World Cup series of events because of the pandemic.
Those events were supposed to offer countries one extra spot for the postponed Tokyo Games, helping the top nations to compensate after Olympic teams were reduced in size from five athletes to four.
FIG is going back to 2019 World Championships results to determine those places.