Mountain Bike Cycling Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[dcro 10,210]

Sagan should just stick with road IMO.

[hckošice 15,122]

  On 5/24/2016 at 8:05 AM, DaniSRB said:

i guess they only ask for permition to compete

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exactly

[hckošice 15,122]

  On 5/24/2016 at 7:47 AM, heywoodu said:

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

 

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

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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.

[hckošice 15,122]

  On 5/24/2016 at 8:44 AM, dcro said:

Sagan should just stick with road IMO.

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

[dcro 10,210]

  On 5/24/2016 at 2:42 PM, hckosice said:

 

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

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Well, it would be fine if he gets that wild card. 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.

[JoshMartini007 2,567]

You need a minimum of 10 points to compete in mountain biking. Does he have that?

[Agger 1,664]

  On 5/24/2016 at 3:23 PM, JoshMartini007 said:

You need a minimum of 10 points to compete in mountain biking. Does he have that?

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Yes. He has 25

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 5/24/2016 at 3:00 PM, dcro said:

 

Well, it would be fine if he gets that wild card. 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.

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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  

 

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. 

[DaniSRB 899]

I guess UCI doesn't plan to publish lists today 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 5/24/2016 at 3:47 PM, DaniSRB said:

I guess UCI doesn't plan to publish lists today 

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It should be published tomorrow (25th May), according to qualification system.