The qualification criteria were stiffened after the 2006 Olympics.
Currently, each sport sets its own qualification criteria, with individual competitions acting as Olympic trials.
This nervousness is reflected in qualification criteria that demand huge financial reserves, thus excluding many social enterprises.
The automatic qualification criteria for the B.C.S. after 2014 have not been determined.
The curious case of the knotted ribbon, the opaque qualification criteria, the home nation places and the weeping teenage gymnasts reached an independent tribunal in London on Wednesday.
Many other buyers, meanwhile, have been unable to get financing because lenders stung by rising loans gone bad have tightened qualification criteria.
After outside-half stints with Bristol, Northampton and Worcester, he has fulfilled the qualification criteria and is free to play representative rugby for his adopted country.
"The final number of athletes that would make up this team depends of qualification criteria," said IOC president Thomas Bach after a meeting of the body's executive committee on Wednesday.
In contrast, at the diving test event many of those watching could be seen frantically leafing through the programme in an attempt to discern the scoring system and qualification criteria.
Jenkins, who knew a podium place would be enough to meet the 2012 qualification criteria, crossed the line seven seconds ahead of American Gwen Jorgensen, with German Anja Dittmer third.
Should Casey bank more than $11m by winning the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup here at East Lake, talk of alterations to Ryder Cup qualification criteria would be inevitable.
