René Gough's situation ahead of Lima 2019
In the last official statement it was said that the Dominican would qualify if what happened in France happened, but a special situation was not taken into account so the Dominican may be left out.
When two months after the 2018 Pan American Surfing Games ended, the ISA published the list of those qualified for Lima 2019, a call was made to longboarders since there was still one event left that gave them a ticket: The ISA World Longboard Championship.
It literally stated the following: “If at the 2019 ISA WLSC the highest-seeded surfer from the Americas IS from PER, ARG, BRA, URU, CRC, PUR, CHI, or ECU, this surfer will replace his/her country (or himself/herself) as the number 1 seed and René Gough (DOM) will qualify as the ninth seed in the tournament and the surfers will increase their seeding spot.”
But a situation occurred that the ISA did not take into account in that paragraph, which was that the best ranked player in the Americas was the Peruvian Piccolo Clemente, who won the tournament and he occupied the place reserved for the host country and did not touch the place reserved for the best player in the Americas in the event in question, which is the highest ranking.
That's why we have to go to the next highest ranked surfer from the Americas, and that was Cole Robbins from the United States, who won the copper in Biarritz.
This left a divided situation: If the events of the World Surfing Games in Japan were to be followed, Gough would not qualify (Muñiz was first, Lucca Mesinas was second, but since he is from the host country, he left room for Kevin Schulz of the United States to qualify).
If what is stated by the ISA in this PDF is followed to the letter (Click here, or see below), Gough should go.
The athlete is aware of this and so is his federation. In fact, there were posts celebrating this from the federation of this country (see below).
Gough is clearly upset with the situation and is awaiting official communication.
DUKE has contacted ISA and is awaiting a response on the matter.
*DUKE reported in a previous note that Gough classified based on what was published by the ISA. The details in that note were disseminated based on the criteria established by the ISA in the document published in this note. In any case, to our readers and those involved, we apologize for the confusion.
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