Change to Relay Teams participating in Beijing

Monte-Carlo – Since the names of the national relay teams participating at the Games of XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008, were announced by the IAAF on Monday 21 July there has been one further change in recent days concerning the women’s 4 x100m.

One qualified nation, Finland, has subsequently informed the IAAF that they no longer wish to send a squad to participate in the women’s 4 x 100m relay.

Therefore, Nigeria, which was placed in 18th position in the qualification standings, is applicable to, and will compete in, Beijing.

This brings to a total of three the number of nations* across the four relay events who had teams qualified but who have since declined their invitations to take part in the relays at the Olympics.

IAAF

See 'Related Content' to the right of this text to download the new list of nations who will be competing in the Relays in Beijing (pdf format)

*prior to the original announcement on 21 July, Australia had already declined the invitation for the men’s 4 x100m (replaced by the Netherlands, originally 17th), and Cuba had declined their invitation for the women’s 4 x100m (replaced by Thailand, originally 17th).