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Fantastic race in Mairipora Perhaps the best I've ever seen.

 

Beautiful course too.

 

 

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  On 5/9/2022 at 11:03 AM, heywoodu said:

Apparently belief in a Brazilian woman qualifying isn't very big in Brazil, due to changes compared to Tokyo's qualifying system. What exactly changed (for a country like Brazil)? I heard something about certain races not counting anymore, which is negative for countries like Brazil, but not sure about the details.

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Looks like they have disabled points farming on small-time races. Only the top tier races will count.

 

To be honest, Brazil was not really the frontrunner in the points farming department. Some other nations will suffer much more (and consequently will fail to qualify this time around).

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Apparently Flueckiger got mad at Schurter for riskily overtaking his team mate in the sprint for gold.

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  On 8/12/2021 at 8:17 AM, heywoodu said:

European championships in Serbian Novi Sad this weekend. Entry list, sort of, is here:

http://www.uec.ch/resources/2021 Events/MTB XCO/2021_euromtb21_entry_v2.pdf

 

Quite a lot of Slovaks  @hckošice

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Fun fact, Novi Sad loosely translates as "New USA".

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Apparently this Hungarian girl is one of Anna van der Breggen's minions. Not that much of a surprised anymore.

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First sweep of the Olympics coming up. And by an unlikely nation.

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Drive-by for PFP.

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And some wonder why the ramp was reinstated.

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Start loop completed, and the leading group is down to two riders.

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  On 7/27/2021 at 5:23 AM, heywoodu said:

WoodenBoardGate continues, apparently they will leave it there for the women. Basically saying the women aren't good enough to jump it, which is kind of a bad message to send.

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Well, you need to make a big jump to clear those big rocks, and women will be approaching the jump with a slower average speed.

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  On 7/26/2021 at 7:19 AM, heywoodu said:

 

Not nearly  

 

Plenty of events where there is only 1 potential challenger instead of several  

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And yet the British team had the flag all ready.

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Most expected winner in Tokyo...

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OBS commentator is not a Pidcock fanboy at all.

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It looked a lot like rotational cross-country riding fall.

 

His bike caught a rock and it turned into a full spin.

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Horrific fall for vd Poel.

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Sarrou proudly destroys the race for everyone behind him.

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Lots of spectators!

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  On 7/22/2021 at 9:44 AM, heywoodu said:

Van der Poel is only travelling today, that's remarkably late considering the difference in conditions (which are conditions that usually favour him less, so he could use the time..).

 

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He knows Pidcock will destroy him anyways.

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  On 6/13/2021 at 1:17 PM, heywoodu said:

Athlete B closes in on the part where A made a huge mistake and is a second or so down, after this part he is nearly a second up. This is obvious, since A lost 2 seconds there and so it'd be weird if B did not make up a huge chunk of time. However, the commentators didn't see this coming at all: "HE'S A SECOND UP, HE HAS TURNED IT ALL AROUND!! UNBELIEVABLE, WHAT IS HE ON?1!!?!"  

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Agreed. This is so incredibly annyoing.

 

Another example is when someone makes up a lot of time towards the end, and takes the lead, they keep repeating "A lot of time can be made down below!!", even though the leading splits are now completely different...

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  On 5/19/2021 at 3:29 PM, hckošice said:

which bring us to the same question again then. If for example decline its second M quota will it be reallocated via ranking to the highest NOC with only 1 qualified (2nd added quota) or dirst non qualified NOC in the ranking ?

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Best not yet represented, meaning Slovakia.

 

Don't get your hopes up about Brazil though. Their NOC is just not into declining quotas. At all.

 

On paper, the is always the most likely to withdraw, but I'm pretty sure Vader is safe.

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  On 5/19/2021 at 3:13 PM, hckošice said:

so, as expected our NOC is wrong then https://www.olympic.sk/clanok/horskym-cyklistom-tesne-usiel-priamy-postup-do-tokia-chybalo-21-bodov-ci-3-sekundy-na-ms I had doubts about them being correct, so that was why I asked, now I know. It is srange however that even NOCs does not know the rules properly lol

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So I double checked. They changed it and now any reallocation will be awarded down the rankings.

 

But with reduced maximum quotas per nation (only 7 nations can have more than one starter), it is more improbable than ever.

 

Tripartite Commission place will be awarded only if everyone ranked declines. That's so dumb. 60 nations would have to decline. I swear some federations are inventing ridiculous Tripartite allocation criteria just to parade behind the universality flag. Yuck.

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  On 5/19/2021 at 1:08 PM, hckošice said:

on the other hand, I have a question for a more professional observers of this qualification system. 

 

If one of the countries for some reason or just by pure infinite goodness suddenly decides not to use its second mens quota (for example I do not know, let say Brazil who has 2 M quotas). who will then receive the reallocation ? the first country in the ranking with only one qualified will get an additional 2nd quota ( )  or it will be for the first nonqualified country yet ( ) ?  

 

Ďakujem in advance

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Neither. Tripartite Commission.

 

Likely Lesotho (again).

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Congrats to Namibia for achieving full representation in two disciplines.

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  On 5/18/2021 at 1:21 AM, Nickyc707 said:

I'm also unclear on this. They picked up one quota through their performance in the U-23s at the WC. They also appeared to be in line for two quotas through the rankings, although the updated rankings suggest that it will now be one. I also don't understand if quotas picked up in the rankings have any impact on the quota gained at the WC. The recent events surrounding the Romanian rider in the men's event have left me confused about this. My best guess is that Richards, Short and Last will be fighting for two spots between them.

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Ranking quotas have top priority, then continental, then WCh. A nation once qualified is excluded from lower priority pathways. Different pathways do not add up.

 

Basically, the Worlds may have been held in 2019, but only now we will know who exactly earned those spots...

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Oh. This is where UCI published the rankings (after Albstadt, Nove Mesto not counted yet).

 

https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/official-documents/tokyo-2020---olympic-games/mtb-nationalranking-men---as-of-11.05.2021.pdf

https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/official-documents/tokyo-2020---olympic-games/mtb-nationalranking-women---as-of-11.05.2021.pdf