London 2012 Olympics: British Olympic Association seeks explanation for Aaron Cook's taekwondo omission He has to go. If it was any other country in the world, he would be picked. He is the world No 1 and has been the poster boy for our sport," he said. For them not to select him would be either arrogance or incompetence. Cook was initially overlooked for selection last week, with British Taekwondo preferring Lutalo Muhammad, 20. Muhammad is also a European champion but won his title in a different weight category at the tournament in Manchester last month. Cook appealed, and British Taekwondo was ordered to convene a new selection panel. This appears to have met hurriedly at the end of last week and endorsed the initial panel's decision. Cook was omitted, with Muhammad and Martin Stamper nominated for the two men's slots, and Sarah Stevenson and Jade Jones for the women's places. The final call on selection rests with the BOA, however, and there is sufficient concern among the leadership at British Taekwondo's procedures for it to ask for an explanation. The fact that the view of the sport's performance director appears to have been ignored twice is likely to figure in its deliberations. Usually nominations from sports are accepted by the BOA as matter of course, but with British Taekwondo operating a secret selection procedure they will consider rejecting their choice of Muhammad. The BOA's Olympic Qualification Standards panel, made up of chief executive Andy Hunt, Sir Clive Woodward, deputy chef de mission Mark England and Sarah Winckliss, chairman of the BOA athletes commission, will meet this week. They will demand an explanation of the reasons behind Cook's omission, and are understood to be minded to take the highly unusual step of rejecting a sport's nomination. It is not unprecedented for the BOA to reject a sport's selection. In 2002 it rejected the nomination of ice dancers Marika Humphreys and Vitaliy Baranov for the Salt Lake City winter Olympic team because they failed to meet the agreed qualifying standard. It reversed the omission following an appeal by the National Ice Skating Association. Were they to act in this case however it would raise the prospect of legal challenges on the eve of the Games. British Taekwondo has declined to answer any questions about the omission of Cook, apparently acting under legal advice. It has not published or explained its qualification criteria, and communications manager Steve Flynn declined to answer questions about the process. He said he could not comment on the selection criteria or who was on the second selection panel that omitted Cook, and referred questions to the BOA. British Taekwondo did publish a 34-word statement on its website: "GB Taekwondo can confirm that nominations for the Great Britain Olympic Taekwondo team have now been sent to the British Olympic Association. We will be making no further comment on selection at this time. A BOA spokesman said: "The British Olympic Association can confirm that it has received from British Taekwondo the list of four athletes it is formally nominating for selection to Team GB in taekwondo. The BOA Olympic Qualification Standards Panel will convene this week to fully consider the nominations.