Mountain Bike Cycling Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Totallympics 78]

Edited March 14, 2023 by Sindo

[heywoodu 16,015]

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.

[dcro 10,210]

3 hours ago, 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.

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).

[heywoodu 16,015]

23 minutes ago, dcro said:

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).

Well if the end result is the same (no real shot at a ticket given their current quality), the damage in the end is kind of the same  

[Sindo 1,657]

18 hours ago, dcro said:

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

Where did you find that? In the qualification document I see "The events included in the UCI Mountain Bike Olympic Qualification ranking can be found here", and then it links to: https://www.uci.org/calendar/mtb/1voMyukVGR4iZMhMlDfRv0?discipline=MTB

Which is just the UCI MTB calendar page

[Vojthas 949]

I was hoping for UCI to prepare an Olympic Ranking as well with their newest update of the World Ranking. But maybe the Totallympians will sum up, how it goes week by week?

[EupenM 150]

Are all the World Cup competitions counted for the Olympic Qualification Ranking (cross-country, U23, short track)? Or only cross-country?

[Gianlu33 5,284]

4 hours ago, EupenM said:

Are all the World Cup competitions counted for the Olympic Qualification Ranking (cross-country, U23, short track)? Or only cross-country?

Short XCO counts too, but it's totally insignificant, the winner get 10 points (for compare, the national XCO championship winner get 100 points) 

[Vojthas 949]

But the Albstadt short doesn't count. The ranking started on Saturday, the short one was on Friday.

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[hckošice 15,544]

Peter Sagan announced today he will try to qualify for the MTB Cycling competition in Paris, as he will end his Road Cycling career at the end of the 2023 season and then start completely focus on the MTB Paris Olympics where he want definitely finish his sports career