Topic: Casey Burgener not chosen to lift in the Olympic Games

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Tamas Ajan's open letter to the USOC, attached as pdf, courtesy of unnamed source:

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

This reminds me of when Ajan extended a "personal invitation" to RezaZadeh to the Sr Worlds despite the Iranian teams doping debacle. Why can he not do the same now? Why won't he? Why did he then? As I understand it, the whole thing with limiting slots is to keep the total number of competitors that have to be housed and fed under control so as not to overwhelm the host nation's resouces. But, Casey is there anyway, sleeping and eating somehow I assume.

[Ryan Wilkinson]

This reminds me of when Ajan extended a "personal invitation" to RezaZadeh to the Sr Worlds despite the Iranian teams doping debacle. Why can he not do the same now? Why won't he? Why did he then? As I understand it, the whole thing with limiting slots is to keep the total number of competitors that have to be housed and fed under control so as not to overwhelm the host nation's resouces. But, Casey is there anyway, sleeping and eating somehow I assume.

Exactly. This reeks. Why isn't the same case being made by USAW for Casey right now? I mean, there is still some time to make this thing happen for Casey.

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

I haven't given up. :)

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

The IWF complained about me giving out their number and telling people to call about Casey. I can't do it anymore through the streams. Still, I think we have struck a nerve. I understand they got a LOT of calls. The new objective is to get Casey as a guest lifter. Getting him in official is impossible now because its against the rules of adding lifters after the tech conference and thus would allow other nations to file grievances. But, lifting as a guest lifter hurts no one!