Road Cycling Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

Rafa Maciel · May 2, 2023

The big set piece event in May for the men's tour is the Giro D'Italia which starts at the weekend so thought it may be interesting to look at the potential impact the race will have on the rankings.

Points	Defending	Adjusted Points
19,608.59	0	19,608.59
12,771.14	560	12,211.14
12,087.89	52	12,035.89
11,098.64	987	10,111.64
10,935.36	60	10,875.36
10,484.51	564	9,920.51
9,674.62	488	9,186.62
8,962.19	272	8690.19
8,316.06	1,074	7,242.06

The table shows that both Australia and Spain will be defending significant points totals in the Giro.

Based on the provisional entry list, the prospects for each nation look varied

Belgium - Remco Evenpoel should be well placed to extend Belgium's lead at the top of the rankings.

France - None of the ranking French riders look like they are taking part.

Denmark - Both Mads Pedersen and Magnus Cort Nielsen are on the start list and, in the absence of French riders, they will have a good opportunity to move up to 2nd in the rankings.

Spain - Like France, none of the ranking Spanish riders appear on the start list and with strong teams from both Slovenia and Great Britain in the race, Spain could frop to 6th in the rankings

Slovenia - Primoz Roglic and Jan Tratnik should be able to do enough to elevate Slovenia above Spain.

Great Britain - Half of our ranking riders are on the start list - Hugh Carthy, Mark Cavendish, Tao Geoghegan Hart and Geraint Thomas. Both Carthy and Geoghegan Hart are in pretty good form so collectively there is a good chance that GBR could overtake Spain and move into 5th place in the rankings.

Netherlands - Thymen Arensman and Bauke Mollema would need to have a stellar event to move up the rankings, but will be looking to close the gap on the higher ranked nations.

Italy - Unsurprisingly, half of Italy's ranking riders are taking part in the Giro and they will be hoping to close the gap on the Netherlands.

Australia - Jai Hindley was the 2022 champion but is not defending the title so it is down to Simon Clarke, Jay Vine and Michael Matthews to fly the Aussie flag but they may struggle and ultimately there's a good chance that Australia will drop below Colombia in the rankings.

dodge · May 2, 2023

Just in case anyone didn’t know, Pro Cycling Stats keep track of the rankings from the Olympic period

https://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings/me/uci-nations-olympic-selection

So the points from last year are already discarded etc. better than the UCI 12 month ranks IMO

Edited May 2, 2023 by dodge

Laraja · May 2, 2023

30 minutes ago, dodge said:

Just in case anyone didn’t know, Pro Cycling Stats keep track of the rankings from the Olympic period

https://www.procyclingstats.com/rankings/me/uci-nations-olympic-selection

So the points from last year are already discarded etc. better than the UCI 12 month ranks IMO

That's cool, I don't know why UCI doesn't make a separate Olympic Ranking, visually it would be better.

But, there is a mistake there. They are giving a quota to :RSA in TT, but it should go to :THA instead.