Updated: Who Will be Racing in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Mountain Bike Race?

 Down vote if you like but please try to convince me that it was not cheating to purposely race less than half of an event and take credit for your position. I am flabbergasted that he is getting any respect for this. I can run 1/3 of a mile much faster than the average of a full 1 mile race.

 Unfortunately enduro is likely too location dependent. The olympics needs a large city/population base on water to accommodate the summer olympics. There aren't many cities that really have that in addition to mountains that are close enough to make it worthwhile. There are some, but not a whole lot to choose from.

 Plus, they have a hard enough time getting replay's let alone live broadcasts as it is. No one wants an olympic event that you can't watch.

 @wilsonians: don't think the mobsters involved with the Olympics won't create the World's First Indoor Synthetic Endurodrome for a chance to skim off the top! Geography is unimportant.

 Maybe the only host city in the post ww2 era that may struggle with terrain is Moscow. But I only say that because I don’t know what the terrain is like there. Every other host city will have an active mtb scene that will include enduro, in the greater metropolitan area.

Also just because live coverage is lacking of current events, doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to broadcast the sport. I mean fencing and pistol shooting aren’t at the top of tv ratings.....

 Downhill would be way more likely to be given a chance but that's not gonna happen.

 To be honest I hate the Olympics for more than a few reasons (would take another TL;DR post if I'd tap into that again) but one positivish thing is that countries are often inclined to invest more in Olympic disciplines (and take money away from disciplines that aren't Olympic). So if there is one think I'd love to be more invested in worldwide, it would be pumptrack racing. Easy to document on tv, accessible for a lot of people to try and get good at. And once the circus is over, your favela may still be bulldozed but at least you now have a pumptrack to roll on instead of a huge BMX track that hardly anyone can (safely) have a go on. And governments will allow Claudio to build pumptracks everywhere in their hunger for that gold, silver or bronze nugget (yeah I know, bronze nugget). Should give kids a solid foundation for whatever they wish to do later. I don't care for medals but if this hunger is what it takes for countries to enforce their kids to take up a sport, it'd better be something they can actually use (and doesn't turn into a neglected crater a few years down the line).

Alternatively, unicycle sports. Unfortunately, unicycling has somehow got the image that it would be hard to learn. So even if it were Olympic, people might still be put off by the image.

 why would it be based on population size. Switzerland has higher quality riders than the USA at the moment, they should be allowed more.

 So you think China and Indonesia should send some riders too?

 It's based on race results not population size, the goal is to have the best riders in the world compete.

 @baulz: Ok jeez guys, fair enough lol.