Team Announcement for XCO World Champs – Nové Mēsto (CZE)

Well done to everyone that were chosen , and good luck. May you make us proud !!

Elite Men:

Philip Buys

James Reid

Sipho Madolo

Alan Hatherly

Henry Liebenberg

Danielle Strydom

gees, no women met the criteria? really 

i just checked the uci rankings, i know it's not what they used specifically, but our highest ranked elite is cherie vale in 30th in wome's elite. phil buys is 46th and sipho madolo is 210

gees, no women met the criteria? really

 

i just checked the uci rankings, i know it's not what they used specifically, but our highest ranked elite is cherie vale in 30th in wome's elite. phil buys is 46th and sipho madolo is 210

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gees, no women met the criteria? really 

 

i just checked the uci rankings, i know it's not what they used specifically, but our highest ranked elite is cherie vale in 30th in wome's elite. phil buys is 46th and sipho madolo is 210

couldnt agree more, how can you send someone who is ranked 210th and not send our best female. disappointing when government gets involved in sport. 

We cannot foster excellence by rewarding mediocrity - no matter what the motive.

Simple as that.

Yes it would be really interesting to know the selection criteria. I mean if neither Mariske or Cherie can be selected for the World Champs then one could be forgiven for thinking that any Olympic dreams they had for Rio is completely done for. And that plain sucks.

 

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Seems that this is the main part of the criteria:

Plus, you need 15% PD representation. So Sipho is our 1/6.

Problem comes in that the ladies do actually qualify and communication had gone out on it earlier. Now CSA are saying cause the ladies never matched the % required in 2 events. However, those 2 events were PMB festival which was measured on weather and the other was African champs in leotho but there according to male Elite times they did match it but additional was added which Im not getting into.

There is more coming from this and wont be surprised if the Ladies go to Worlds where they rightfully deserve to go.

The women didn't meet the Olympic qualifying criteria to go to RIO. According to Nation rankings we can't send a female to RIO.

Please dig deeper and find out why they never. 

The girls already can't goto Rio and now this! Are CSA trying to squash woman's XCO on purpose?

Please dig deeper and find out why they never.

If you watched the women's XCO on Sunday you would've seen why the German ladies were so happy with their placements . It was the last chance to score points and they did enough to send I think 3 ladies to RIO.

SA ladies were very lax trying to score the points .. they should have been riding more UCI races (perhaps smaller races) to score points, qualifying criteria was set long ago.

Its all about "representation" they dont give a f#k about performance, as long as we have a 210th placed PD then who cares, this will be the cause of ALL of our sport going down the drain

The girls can't goto Rio because:

a)  South Africa won the continental quotas in men's and women's mountain bike, but decided not to accept them. South African sports confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and Cycling South Africa (CSA) made an agreement on the Rio 2016 Olympics qualification criteria that the Continental Qualification route will not be considered.

b)This is for Woman specifically: Countries ranked from 1 to 8 can take 2 athletes to Rio. teams ranked from 9 to 17 can take 1 athlete to Rio. South Africa is currently ranked 21st giving us 0 Rio spots.

So because we forfeited our continental quotas no woman athletes will be going to Rio for XCO.

SA ladies were very lax trying to score the points .. they should have been riding more UCI races (perhaps smaller races) to score points, qualifying criteria was set long ago.

Mariske was injured much of 2015 but is still ranked 60th (530) regardless of the off time, Cherie did her best to score points and is currently 30th (812). ZA ladies have a total of 3155 points so between the two of them they have earned moving towards half all the points.

There isn't much more they could have done besides Mariske not being injured which isn't something that could be avoided. Other woman really needed to come to the party with points but its obviously not a priority for them to see a ZA lady at the Olympics.

Mariske was injured much of 2015 but is still ranked 60th (530) regardless of the off time, Cherie did her best to score points and is currently 30th (812). ZA ladies have a total of 3155 points so between the two of them they have earned moving towards half all the points.

 

There isn't much more they could have done besides Mariske not being injured which isn't something that could be avoided. Other woman really needed to come to the party with points but its obviously not a priority for them to see a ZA lady at the Olympics.

Hopefully there are more committed youngsters coming up through the ranks.

We have said it before and I say it again.. if you want to make you have to take matters into your own hands.. you cannot wait for sponsors to send you to Europe you will have to decide yes I want to give it a go and make your own way to Europe work jobs to pay your way and do races on weekends... just like Burry did in the beginning of his career too many riders are waiting for things to happen to them and not making things happen for themselves.

They didn't score enough UCI points

 

 

If you watched the women's XCO on Sunday you would've seen why the German ladies were so happy with their placements . It was the last chance to score points and they did enough to send I think 3 ladies to RIO.

 

SA ladies were very lax trying to score the points .. they should have been riding more UCI races (perhaps smaller races) to score points, qualifying criteria was set long ago.

Superlax???

Really?

Race more UCI races?? 

Do you have any idea the races that were done in order to go to Rio? They raced all the specific races that were "UCI" as you say. They raced plenty. They couldn't of actually done any more.

Superlax???

 

Really?

 

Race more UCI races??

 

Do you have any idea the races that were done in order to go to Rio? They raced all the specific races that were "UCI" as you say. They raced plenty. They couldn't of actually done any more.

End of the day.. the youngster are not being managed well (i don't think) they don't receive much guidance from our governing body either. . Until our governing body decide "let's help ensure we qualify for the Olympics" not much will change.

There is a huge

Sadly this is the state of affairs.

I suppose we can also look at Candice Neethling - she went to London 2012 probably with a way lower UCI ranking, was that not for future development? Now she's not even mentioned in the Rio picture.

In broad terms of Olympics, I think it's an arms race that sees very little point to countries like ours. We should not be measuring ourselves on medals. That is just unattainable as we only really get the few freak performances that have f@#$ all to do with SASCOC's help. All countries outside of the top 10 should really be measured on finals made (or medals per GDP/capita etc etc).

The women didn't meet the Olympic qualifying criteria to go to RIO. According to Nation rankings we can't send a female to RIO.

sort of related, but in looking up the rankings I see mr Croesoer is still on the list. wonder if those points are counting for us?

sort of related, but in looking up the rankings I see mr Croesoer is still on the list. wonder if those points are counting for us?

hmmm jjuiced points. Where are the Hubs moral compasses now?

hmmm jjuiced points. Where are the Hubs moral compasses now?

How many of our total points were scored by him?