ATHLETICS Australia will not consider nominating steeplechaser Genevieve LaCaze who met the qualifying time for her event barely 24 hours after the sport body's deadline for qualification had expired.

AA said in a statement released this afternoon that it would be unfair to other athletes to extend the qualification period to consider LaCaze's performance this week. No other runner has been nominated to run the 3000-metre steeplechase at the London Games.

The Athletics Australia board met yesterday and considered the case of LaCaze who ran an A-qualifying time in the US this week barely 24 hours after the Australian team had been announced.

"Today, the Athletics Australia Board has reiterated the position that the conditions set out in the nomination criteria must stand, and that specifically, no performances achieved outside the qualifying period can be considered for nomination," the statement read.

"This decision has been reached because it was felt that to extend the qualifying period would unfairly discriminate against the many athletes who had planned their preparations to achieve their qualifying performances by the specified dates.