Kammala wannan jumla: cancantar wasan motsa jiki na maza a shekarar 2008 ya dogara ne akan
2007 Gasar Gasar Gymnastics ta Duniya. Manyan kungiyoyi 12 a gasar zakarun duniya za su iya aika da cikakken tawagar 'yan wasan motsa jiki 6 zuwa wasannin Olympics. Ƙungiyoyi 3 na gaba (# 13 zuwa # 15) na iya aika 'yan wasan motsa jiki 2. Ƙungiyoyin 3 bayan haka (# 16 zuwa # 18) na iya aikawa da gymnast 1. 'Yan wasan motsa jiki na mutum 7 masu zuwa (kawai daga ƙasashe ba tare da ƙwararrun' yan wasan motsa jiki ba tukuna) da masu cin lambar zinare na kayan aiki suma sun cancanci shiga. Kwamitin zartarwa na FIG ya yi zaɓen gayyata don tabbatar da wakilcin ƙasar da ke karɓar bakuncin da kuma wakilcin nahiyar kuma Hukumar Tripartite ta yi gayyata. An cika adadin 'yan wasan motsa jiki 98 ta hanyar ƙarin' yan wasan motsa jiki.