Road Cycling Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Which is a good thing, at least Belarus has a pretty good cyclist and a decent one to back him up. Turkey has...well, nobody, really.

 

Indeed. Turkey is just spamming their own races and that's it.

 

It's heartwarming that these spams only give them a single quota this time... They had 3 cyclists in London, 2 in Rio, and yet they NEVER managed to finish the road race.

[heywoodu 14,953]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Indeed. Turkey is just spamming their own races and that's it.

 

It's heartwarming that these spams only give them a single quota this time... They had 3 cyclists in London, 2 in Rio, and yet they NEVER managed to finish the road race.

Too bad, Onur Balkan at least last year had some slightly interesting results here and there (outside Turkey, that is), but he too is nowadays doing pretty much the same thing - spamming Turkish races.

[Benolympique 2,398]

On wikipedia the ranking is forgotten is it just? thank you

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

45 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

On wikipedia the ranking is forgotten is it just? thank you

 

Looks like they used the rankings from last week and not this week which hasn't been updated yet.

 

Additionally, they forgot a second Asian athlete must compete in the men's time trial (Iran will replace Luxembourg)

[heywoodu 14,953]

4 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Looks like they used the rankings from last week and not this week which hasn't been updated yet.

 

Additionally, they forgot a second Asian athlete must compete in the men's time trial (Iran will replace Luxembourg)

You mean they'll replace Luxembourg's second time trial rider or won't LUX have any? Surely that can't be true?

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

Just now, heywoodu said:

You mean they'll replace Luxembourg's second time trial rider or won't LUX have any? Surely that can't be true?

 

Luxembourg only had 1 time trial rider, but yes it will be replaced as they are the 30th ranked nation. Same thing happened in the women's with Japan replacing France.

Edited October 23, 2019 by JoshMartini007

[dcro 10,210]

Ugh. Poor Bob Jungels.

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

Looks like Belarus replaced Ukraine in the women's ranking (I assume the world and nations ranking will be the same for this week)

[heywoodu 14,953]

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Luxembourg only had 1 time trial rider, but yes it will be replaced as they are the 30th ranked nation. Same thing happened in the women's with Japan replacing France.

Well that sucks so bad. So a legitimate medal contender will be kicked out and replaced by someone who will finish 5+ minutes behind, 'because continents'. IOC, you suck balls.

[dodge 1,024]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Well that sucks so bad. So a legitimate medal contender will be kicked out and replaced by someone who will finish 5+ minutes behind, 'because continents'. IOC, you suck balls.

 

Well if he was a legitimate medal contender, he'd have finished in the top 10 at the worlds and qualified that way.  It's not that big a deal IMO