So despite this (and she was very clear on the science), New Zealander Laurel Hubbard will comptete at the Tokyo Olympics in weightlifting. That seems a bit wrong to me, especially given this injustice:
www.telegraph.co.uk/triathlon/0/olympic-triathlete-alistair-brownlee-disqualified-tokyo-ridiculous/
"He may look like a computer programmer, but he has a legitimate claim to be reckoned the finest all-round athlete this country has produced since Daley Thompson.
A master of swimming, cycling and running, his record of success is astonishing, winning successive Olympic gold medals and four triathlon world championships. Along the way he has inspired thousands to squeeze into Lycra and take up the challenge of the gruelling sport in which he so excels. As someone once said to him (he thinks it was intended as a compliment): he’s an inspiration because he looks so normal it makes everyone think that if he can do it, they could too. And the rewards for his abilities are there all around him, set in Yorkshire stone.
‘Yeah I owe the Olympics a lot,’ he says, glancing round the place. ‘Actually I owe them everything.’
This summer however, he will not be adding to his roll call of Olympic glory.
Things went wrong during a World Championship Series race in Leeds in June. This was the final chance he had of gaining the necessary qualifying time for the Olympic Games, which open in Tokyo later this month. But almost as soon as the race got underway, as the athletes began the swimming leg, an eagle-eyed marshal accused him of ‘ducking’ (or pushing underwater) the American triathlete Chase McQueen.
Later, Brownlee tweeted to say any contact in the water, which inevitably boils with thrashing limbs in the opening moments of every race, was ‘completely unintentional’. He had, he added, ‘had worse done’ to him ‘in every World Series race I’ve ever done’. But his rationale fell on deaf ears.
He was disqualified under the rule which states: ‘Where competitors deliberately target another competitor to impede their progress, gain unfair advantage and potentially cause harm to another competitor will result in disqualification.’ His Tokyo dream was over."