Joost Luiten successfully sued his country’s Olympic committee to play but the field for Paris had already been set.
The wild journey that a Dutch golfer took to try to play in the Olympics looks as if it won’t end in Paris after all.
, with a judge ruling that the Dutch committee had to immediately register Luiten for Olympic golf or risk a fine.“When the International Golf Federation received notification of Joost Luiten's court ruling in the Netherlands and his entry from the Netherlands’ National Olympic Committee , his unused quota spot had already been reallocated pursuant to the IGF’s published qualification procedures,” the IGF said Tuesday in a statement.
“The IGF has advised Luiten of the IOC's decision, and he has not informed the IGF whether he intends to pursue this matter further,” the statement read.
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