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Mountain Bike Cycling Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016


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6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

It would be awesome, but why would they give SVK a wild card? :p 

 

I mean, don't they already have a quota place and besides that, SVK isn't eligible for wild cards are they? 

 

yes, we have 1 quota but it will be used by our cross-country specialist. the well I don´t know how to translate it correctly "wild card" is for a athelet already qualified in another cycling section. it means just use the athlete qualified in road race also in MTB.

anyway we have to wait for the UCI decision.

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13 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

why? it´s just for fun, he is not going for medal, only to compete and have some fun at olympics :d

 

Well, it would be fine if he gets that wild card. :d I just hope that he doesn't replace that cross-country specialist who has been chasing Olympic points for the last two years. That would seem unfair. :p

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38 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Well, it would be fine if he gets that wild card. :d I just hope that he doesn't replace that cross-country specialist who has been chasing Olympic points for the last two years. That would seem unfair. :p

That would absolutely be unfair, but if him doing MTB wouldn't take a spot away from someone else, I have no problem with it :p 

 

In fact, it'd be great for MTB which usually isn't exactly a sport that gets a whole lot of attention, but with Sagan joining that will certainly change that, at least for Rio. 

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