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Tom Pidcock hospitalised after a fall during his prep for Tour of the Basque Country. 

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22 hours ago, mpjmcevoy said:

Must be good points for the lads, now with that Hors cat. Probably relatively safe now with 2, and Kye increasingly looks a real threat come Paris

 

Unfortunately the push for two on the women's side looks goosed at this point, but if Schriever is fit and on form, should be good to o for at least the podium

Prospects probably don't look great although I think the gap is still closeable but we aren't taking advantage of the European Cup to close the gap ahead of the last tranche of competitions. It might come down to the results at the World Champs and last year  netted about 300+ points more than .

 

Things would be a lot easier if Shriever had competed in the European Cup events but I guess getting Hutt to the Olympics would be regarded as a bonus. Hopefully by the time the qualifying window opens for LA, we'll still have Shriever, Hutt will have moved to the elite and we'll have Sienna Harvey and Betsy Bax in the under-23s giving us the potential for a full strength squad. 

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Don't we have 2 spots in the women's anyway - 1 for Bethany for winning the WCs last year and another for being in the 6-10 nation range?

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28 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

Don't we have 2 spots in the women's anyway - 1 for Bethany for winning the WCs last year and another for being in the 6-10 nation range?

No - the World ranking quotas taking precedence so the World champs quota will be reallocated to the highest placed NOC which has not qualified anyone through the rankings. 

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6 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

No - the World ranking quotas taking precedence so the World champs quota will be reallocated to the highest placed NOC which has not qualified anyone through the rankings. 

Le boo. Not that it likely matters from a reasonable shot of a medal I suppose. But there's always the "everyone else crashes" chance in BMX racing.

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9 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

Le boo. Not that it likely matters from a reasonable shot of a medal I suppose. But there's always the "everyone else crashes" chance in BMX racing.

Yeah - it's not like we would be leaving at home a medal chance on the women's side but it would be good experience for Emily Hutt. It would be a disaster on the men's side if we can't take two though given we have 4 world class riders in the elite ranks. 

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Pfeiffer Georgi - the girl with the backwards name - gets a very prestigious third in the Paris-Roubaix.  Hopefully it will lead to a promotion, at the moment she is a bit stuck in a super-domestique position. 

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46 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Pfeiffer Georgi - the girl with the backwards name - gets a very prestigious third in the Paris-Roubaix.  Hopefully it will lead to a promotion, at the moment she is a bit stuck in a super-domestique position. 

She looked really good throughout as well, solo'd from the second group to get across to the lead group, just got eaten up on the sprint  

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Don't get too excited folks.... but  did the double at the Olympic BMX Racing Test Event! 

 

Ross Cullen took the men's race whilst Bethany Shriever took the women's. 

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No  on the start lists for round 5 of UEX BMX Racing European Cup .

 

Sienna Harvey is competing in the women's juniors, but this would have been perfect opportunity for her to take the step up to the under-23 and score some ranking points for the team.