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Mountain Bike Cycling Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games


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22 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Men

Africa - :NAM

Asia - :CHN

America - :MEX

2019 WCh - :AUS:ISR

2019 WCh (U23) - :ROU:CHI (or :ARG if Romania is through on rankings)

 

Women

Africa - :NAM

Asia - :CHN

America - :MEX

2019 WCh - :SLO:SWE

2019 WCh (U23) - :POR:RUS

 

too bad no rwanda, guam and costa rica, i hope there will be wild cards

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On 10/05/2021 at 18:34, dcro said:

It will be tight between :SVK and :ROU. ISR/AUS are out.

 

After Albstadt...

Slovakia 2452 (+6)

Romania 2398 (+70)

 

If the same happens in Nove Mesto, Romania would take over that last spot. Slovakia is probably destined to add the minimum 6 (or 9) points, in which case Romania (Dascalu) has to finish 22nd (or 21st) to go ahead.

I think no one has mentioned it yet but this race within the race could prove to be very important to the Olympic race in itself ...

As we speak :GBR is 32nd in the rankings and therefore will not earn any spot thanks to it, whatever Tom Pidcock does in NMNM. So Pidcock, a man we can consider as a top notch outsider for the medals, even the title, is currently out of the Games.

But, if Dascalu should repeat this top 20 and overtake Slovakia in the process, then Romania would be qualified via the rankings, thus releasing its U23 2019 WC quota (earned by Dascalu), which would transfer to the next athlete in this race from a non already qualified country ... Frazer Clacherty of Great Britain :coffee:

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Can anyone find the Olympic Rankings on the UCI/MTB site?  They used to be on the same page as the other World rankings (https://www.uci.org/mountain-bike/rankings ) but seem to have disappeared.  Pretty crucial to work out what the official position is ahead of the last ranking event and after last weekend.

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6 minutes ago, Cmon Mary said:

Can anyone find the Olympic Rankings on the UCI/MTB site?  They used to be on the same page as the other World rankings (https://www.uci.org/mountain-bike/rankings ) but seem to have disappeared.  Pretty crucial to work out what the official position is ahead of the last ranking event and after last weekend.

it will not be updated, it seems to me that they had the same thing for the rankings of the track or the road, to leave the suspense ^^

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14 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

I think no one has mentioned it yet but this race within the race could prove to be very important to the Olympic race in itself ...

As we speak :GBR is 32nd in the rankings and therefore will not earn any spot thanks to it, whatever Tom Pidcock does in NMNM. So Pidcock, a man we can consider as a top notch outsider for the medals, even the title, is currently out of the Games.

But, if Dascalu should repeat this top 20 and overtake Slovakia in the process, then Romania would be qualified via the rankings, thus releasing its U23 2019 WC quota (earned by Dascalu), which would transfer to the next athlete in this race from a non already qualified country ... Frazer Clacherty of Great Britain :coffee:

still, Pidcock could be selected for the road race and then he'd be entitled to participate also to the MTB race...

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51 minutes ago, phelps said:

still, Pidcock could be selected for the road race and then he'd be entitled to participate also to the MTB race...

No. Double starts are not allowed unless the NOC qualified in both disciplines.

 

And even so, given the schedule, I don't see anyone starting in both road and MTB...

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11 minutes ago, dcro said:

No. Double starts are not allowed unless the NOC qualified in both disciplines.

are you sure? :mumble:

 

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And even so, given the schedule, I don't see anyone starting in both road and MTB...

well, in this case, the road race would be only an escamotage, a fake start, abandoning after a few mins of "training"...

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3 hours ago, phelps said:

still, Pidcock could be selected for the road race and then he'd be entitled to participate also to the MTB race...

Don't think so. As Dcro said I'm pretty sure you need to have a quota in the discipline to do so. If not, what is the purpose of the qualification phase and the limited field ? 

Concerning the fake start I don't know if the rule has changed. I know we did it in 2012 to register a Keirin specialist (M.Bourgain) not taking part in the team sprint, but the Keirin quota did exist. Hard to make much more than the "bona fide effort"...

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From the section of the qualification document entitled “Reserve Athletes”

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Competing athletes, who have an Aa accreditation and who are entered by their NOC in any cycling event, may be selected to replace another entered athlete in a different cycling discipline/event until the time of the final confirmation for that event.

 

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2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

From the section of the qualification document entitled “Reserve Athletes”

 

which means that if Dascalu makes it on his own and gives his U-23 spot to GBR, then it's basically certain that they can do the trick by selecting Pidcock for the road race...

and they could even do that in any case by sacrificing another less competitive cyclist of a different discipline/event (thinking of some girls in road racing or MTB, if they are in qualifying position)...

I definitely see Pidcock at the start of the Olympic MTB race...

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