Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[hckošice 16,630]

On 22. 6. 2016 at 10:21, heywoodu said:

Czech's, what's this about Sablikova?

http://sport.idnes.cz/martina-sablikova-cyklistika-rio-verdikt-uci-fad-/cyklistika.aspx?c=A160621_114252_cyklistika_tof

 

They (CZE) will go to international court against UCI because of the Sábliková affair,

 

in fact CZE was the whole time as they wrote assured she is qualified because she won a place in time trial during last years world champs, but CZE failed to qualify a quota in world ranking. 

 

now they were surprised that she isn´t among the invited athletes, so they asked UCI for ia wild card for her, but UCI apparently answered shortly No, we will not answer you by phone, UCI will invite athletes only according to our methodics, we are starting to send letters for the invited NOC´s, if you´ll receive a letter with inviatation CZE will participate, if you´ll not receive any letter it means you are not invited.

 

the czech side is mainly complaining about the very poor communications from UCI, they said UCI didn´t wanted to talk with them about it, they litterally said that they (UCI) behave brutally, that the discussion with them is not cultivated, their lawyers answered only with harsh statements. In principle, they (UCI) wrote to them that it is a only czech problem that they failed to qualify via Ranking and then they lost the time trial quota for Sábliková and that they are not interested and absolutel don´t care about their problems, " 

 

well after all the bombarding mails and very hard letters from slovakians after UCI didn´t awarded the wild card for Sagan I´m not surprised that UCI are a bit sensitive with calls, letters, messages from federations of ex-czechoslovakia

 

so in fact Sábliková and CZE NOC is going to international arbitration court.

[dcro 10,211]

I don't have sympathy for Czechs in this case to be honest. Qualification system (which is literally available to everybody) clearly says that athletes have to qualify for road race in order to compete in time trial. It's not UCI's fault that CZE didn't qualify in road race, nor it is their fault that they didn't read the document.

Edited June 23, 2016 by dcro

[heywoodu 16,465]

Germany

 

Men:

Tony Martin

Simon Geschke

Emanuel Buchmann

Maximilian Levy

 

Women:

Lisa Brennauer

Trixi Worrack

Romy Kasper

Claudia Lichtenberg

 

 

Yes, that is indeed Levy the track cyclist, to create extra space in the strong sprint squad. Whether or not he will start in the road race "will be decided shortly before the race".

http://www.rad-net.de/nachrichten/bdr-schlaegt-olympia-strassenfahrer-vor;n_39341.html

 

 

[rybak 3,431]

Maciej Bodnar and Katarzyna Niewiadoma are first Polish cyclists selected to Olympic team, they both will compete in time trial and road race.

[stepansevs 219]

  TEAM CZECH REPUBLIC

 

 

MEN´S

• Jan BÁRTA (Road Race, Time Trial)
• Leopold KONIG (Road Race, Time Trial)
• Zdenek ŠTYBAR (Road Race)
• Petr VAKOČ (Road Race)

[Agger 1,841]

21 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Germany

 

Men:

Tony Martin

Simon Geschke

Emanuel Buchmann

Maximilian Levy

 

Women:

Lisa Brennauer

Trixi Worrack

Romy Kasper

Claudia Lichtenberg

 

 

Yes, that is indeed Levy the track cyclist, to create extra space in the strong sprint squad. Whether or not he will start in the road race "will be decided shortly before the race".

http://www.rad-net.de/nachrichten/bdr-schlaegt-olympia-strassenfahrer-vor;n_39341.html

 

 

 

France did the same with Bourgain in 2012 where he dropped out after a couple of kms.

[konig 1,597]

1 hour ago, stepansevs said:

Czech republic announced team for road race:

Konig, Barta, Stybar, Vakoc.

Time trial: Konig, Barta

im in the olympics 

[hckošice 16,630]

47 minutes ago, konig said:

im in the olympics 

 

oh it´s you, Leopold ?

[juddy96 171]

Team Canada

 

Men's: Antoine Duchesne, Hugo Houle, Mike Woods

Women's: Karol-Ann Canuel, Leah Kirchmann, Tara Whitten

[dcro 10,211]

Switzerland chose

 

Road race: Michael Albasini, Fabian Cancellara, Steve Morabito, Sebastien Reichenbach

Time trial: Fabian Cancellara

 

Their female representative was announced earlier and it will be Jolanda Neff.