Road Cycling Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Olympian1010 7,976]

1 hour ago, dodge said:

A long time to hang around if you’re not likely to win a medal, especially when a lot of the same women will follow the road race with track responsibilities 

There aren't any World Tour races before (or during) the Olympics once the Giro d'Italia wraps up this weekend. Plus, the next race will be the Tour de France right after the Olympics, so it would seem like a plus to be acclimatized to France and familair with the roads, etc. 

 

At least, that's my assessment of the situation. However, I'm not a pro cyclist and I only have a vague idea of what that career requires of people.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

How does the men's side look?

https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/5eUNF4iBWDyU3o384mPxL7/174ae40dc2ed7ce370672e845571fe62/20240702_Liste_des_NOC_qualifi_s_ME_2024.pdf

 

It's a little out of date, but that's what I found from the UCI. 

Edited July 10 by Olympian1010

[dodge 1,024]

21 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

There aren't any World Tour races before (or during) the Olympics once the Giro d'Italia wraps up this weekend. Plus, the next race will be the Tour de France right after the Olympics, so it would seem like a plus to be acclimatized to France and familair with the roads, etc. 

 

At least, that's my assessment of the situation. However, I'm not a pro cyclist and I only have a vague idea of what that career requires of people.

The countries who said no don’t have any riders interested in doing it. Any world tour riders won’t need acclimatisation for France. The TT roads are different to the road race and the vast majority of those at the Olympic road race won’t be involved in the TDF.  

 

The small squads mean many countries only can choose one road racer and some of them just won’t want to give up 10 days or so in an Olympic village 

It’s just not that a big a deal that someone who is chosen for the road road doesn’t want to do the ITT

 

[Olympian1010 7,976]

1 minute ago, dodge said:

The countries who said no don’t have any riders interested in doing it.

 

Yeah, that was my line of thought too. NOCs will likely priortize events where they feel like they can achieve the best result.

 

3 minutes ago, dodge said:

It’s just not that a big a deal that someone who is chosen for the road road doesn’t want to do the ITT

 

I'd agree with you on this too.

[heywoodu 15,145]

2 hours ago, dodge said:

Women’s time trial is Saturday 27th. 
 

The road race is 8 days later

 

A long time to hang around if you’re not likely to win a medal, especially when a lot of the same women will follow the road race with track responsibilities 

 

Ireland refused a re-allocated spot and tbh, I’ve no issue with it at all 

If track is a thing for them, alright. But if an athlete would only do the road race plus the time trial, I'd assume any athlete would prefer going for both than only for the road race (especially from the countries that refused a time trial spot, other than Australia the "participating is more important than winning" motto applies to basically all of them). It's 8 days later like you said, not like the time trial is going to mess up someone's road race chances (especially since as far as I know, it's not like you're obligated to stay in the village in the mean time).

 

Anyhow, as long as the choices were made by the athletes and not the NOC's, alright  

Edited July 10 by heywoodu

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4 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

I guess those nations/athletes give the road race a higher priority.

 

How does the men's side look?

It's all here

 

https://www.uci.org/paris-2024-official-documents/7G2wjha6eEyPaUGYU87low