The Olympic qualification systems for cycling’s four Olympic disciplines have been published on the UCI website, along with the UCI Olympic Qualification Rankings.
The mountain bike competitions will be held on August 20-21 at the Mountain Bike Centre in the Deodoro Olympic Park.
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As for Maxine, she seems to be the sort of rider we should be supporting.
Spot on comment - could not believe after scanning those lists we are not sending a single athlete to race Mountain Bikes at the Olympics!
British Cycling is obviously having problems (especially after the departure of Shane Sutton after the alleged comments about women and disabled athletes)
Surely written by Ratboy.
It made sense during a lot of the 20th century, but at this point I feel like it's mostly going on momentum. If I were leading a country, I'd have no desire to try to host, ever.
Racing has absolutely zero to do with people getting involved in cycling. In fact I would say it does more harm than good in getting people into bikes. Formula One has no impact on someone driving a VW around town.
What a racer needs and what people need for a bike are two distinctly different things. Getting someone on a Hybrid sells more mountain bikes and or road bikes than any captain spandex ever has.
Lance Armstrong's Cancer foundation sold more bikes than his participation in bike racing ever did.
Judging the zero spots in this years Olympics doesn't look likely.
Wonder who Slovakia will pick for their one spot. Peter Sagan, or the guy who busted his ass for a top 40 world ranking?