Peter Sagan’s longshot to make it to the Olympic Video games in mountain bike look like over as Slovakia didn’t climb excessive sufficient within the UCI rankings earlier than the top of the qualification interval on Sunday.
Slovakia was thirty fifth within the UCI MTB Olympic Qualification Rating revealed at the moment, nicely outdoors the highest 19 nations which earned automated entry to the cross-country race in Paris.
Sagan‘s efforts to qualify for a spot for Paris had been hampered by irregular coronary heart rhythms, which required him to cease racing twice for procedures. He returned to highway racing on the Tour de Hongrie however didn’t compete within the final qualifying MTB race, the Nove Mesto World Cup, this weekend, the place World and Olympic champion Tom Pidcock gained forward of Switzerland’s Nino Schurter.
Switzerland topped the boys’s rankings forward of host nation France, whose automated entry for the XCO races will probably be reallocated as a result of they certified two positions as a part of the highest eight nations within the rankings.
However, even with the reallocation, Slovakia is just too far down the rankings to be awarded the spot, which is able to probably go to Twentieth-place Israel.
Italy, Spain, United States, Germany, Belgium and Nice Britain all certified two entries for the boys’s XCO occasion in Paris.
Brazil, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Austria, Norway, Chile, Poland, Romania and Czechia every certified one place.
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The factors additionally award one spot to the profitable nation of the 2023 Asia, American and African Continental Championships in the event that they have not already certified by the UCI rankings. If they’ve, the subsequent nation from every continent within the UCI rankings is awarded the entry.
Mexico’s Geraldo Ulloa Arevalo and China’s Lyu Xianjing gained the American and Asian championships, respectively, in 2023 whereas South Africa, already certified, gained Africa’s. The subsequent nation from Africa within the UCI rankings, Namibia, ought to get the spot.
Subsequent, the highest two nations that have not already certified from the UCI MTB World Championships within the elite and under-23 races every get one place.
For the boys, Latvia’s Martins Blums (eleventh) and Colombia’s Diego Arias (forty eighth) had been the highest two within the elites and the Netherlands’ Tom Schellekens and Sweden’s Andre Eriksson the highest within the under-23s.
Mathieu van der Poel has opted to not compete within the MTB occasions on the Paris Olympics, opening the door for Schellekens or a teammate to compete.
On the ladies’s facet, Switzerland additionally topped the UCI MTB Olympic Qualification Rating, with France, USA, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Denmark and Nice Britain incomes two locations.
Germany, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Czechia, Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Portugal and South Africa rounded out the highest 19 to every get one place.
China earned a spot due to Li Hongfeng’s win within the Continental Championships in India in October. South Africa and USA gained the African and American championships. Mauritius and Mexico look like the next-ranked nations to take these entries.
Slovenia and Spain had been subsequent greatest within the elite ladies’s UCI World Championships in Glasgow, whereas New Zealand and Hungary topped the not-yet-qualified nations within the under-23s.
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2024 Olympic Video games mountain bike males’s quotas
