Nope, I believe that it was up to individual countries to select and enter an athlete unlike the Olympics where specific times need to be met or certain events need to entered etc. I really felt for her but on the other side I am thinking about entering myself into the mountain biking event in 2018 for the country of my fathers birth as I could do with a holiday to the Gold Coast.

Tonight I am going to attempt to run 11.25km or 7 miles. Never run that far before but I am going to give it a go.