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Peter Dawson, International Golf Federation president, and announces the qualification system for the 2016 Olympic Games golf events in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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SOUNDBITE (English): Peter Dawson, International Golf Federation President:
"The field for the men's competition and the women's competition will both be of 60 players, and both competitions will be 72 holes, stroke play. We will be publishing weekly from now on and Olympic ranking which will show you as the weeks go by if the Olympics were to be played now who would be eligible, and this of course will change over the next two years. And it's the Olympic ranking on the 11th of July 2016 that is going to be the one that defines who gets into the Games."
SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Dawson, International Golf Federation President:
"I think the whole Rio construction project has been, is being looked at very hard by the IOC (International Olympic Committee). It's having to be accelerated and I wouldn't want to single out golf as the most vulnerable in that process, nor am I here announcing that any other sport is vulnerable. It's a huge undertaking, putting Olympic Games together, especially I would imagine just after a World Cup, and Rio have certainly got their work cut out."
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2016 Olympics: Golf format revealed
Tuesday, July 15 2014Category:Golf