You're quite right, but I suppose that it would be difficult to accommodate all the countries of the world. So I assume that's what the OP is driving at and I hasten to add that I don't know, of course.RedheadDane said:Okay... now I'm probably gonna ask a rather dumb question;
Don't you participate at the worlds with your country not your team?
I believe that all countries are allowed to participate, but most do not want to pay for the riders to go there. Or at least I think I heard something like that at last years WC when a certain rider couldn't participate because his country didn't want to payL'arriviste said:You're quite right, but I suppose that it would be difficult to accommodate all the countries of the world. So I assume that's what the OP is driving at and I hasten to add that I don't know, of course.
Perhaps one day we'll see a World Champion from Belize, Chad or Djibouti. That would be a nice thing.![]()
Wouldn't that make for rather an enormous peloton though? It's only theoretical that all countries would start, of course, but surely they have to draw the line somewhere and have, say, qualification based on UCI rankings or something?Barrus said:I believe that all countries are allowed to participate, but most do not want to pay for the riders to go there. Or at least I think I heard something like that at last years WC when a certain rider couldn't participate because his country didn't want to pay
This definitively sets it out as to who qualifies, and is the reason Cav may not get the sprinter's win at the 2010 road race a lot have already given him. GBR are currently rated 14th in world UCI tables and thus would only qualify 6 riders - not quite enough for a train of the quality which would be required to at the WC if a bunch sprint ensued. If Cav or Wiggins screw up/are injured at the TdF I dont see them qualifying the full 9 riders.Susan Westemeyer said:Check it out here: http://www.uci.ch/includes/asp/getTarget.asp?type=FILE&id=NDAzMDY
Susan
(I'm wierd, I enjoy rooting around the UCI's rules)
That's fair enough isn't it? It's a UCI world championships, so it's only open to UCI ranked riders. Not sure about excluding nations that don't have 9 such riders though.tgsgirl said:Also, the UCI have put in a sneaky new rule that says no matter how high you're ranked, you can't bring 9 guys if you don't actually have 9 guys in the individual UCI ranking. Last I checked Britain had 2 on the list, but that was before the Giro.
And GB are miles behind, although they were last year until the cav and wiggins show boosted them just a little bit over july. Cant see that happening again this year though. Maybe as well, i think sometimes you can take too many riders to the worlds, things get complicatedtgsgirl said:The top ten right now are.
1 1 SPAIN ESP 1,028
2 2 ITALY ITA 820
3 3 BELGIUM BEL 745
4 4 AUSTRALIA AUS 691
5 5 UNITED STATES USA 423
6 6 KAZAKHSTAN KAZ 302
7 11 SLOVENIA SLO 294
8 7 RUSSIA RUS 293
9 10 FRANCE FRA 260
10 8 GERMANY GER 255
11 9 SWITZERLAND SUI 247
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Sure can, just ask Simon and CadelTeamSkyFans said:Maybe as well, i think sometimes you can take too many riders to the worlds, things get complicated
GB is fourteenth with 127 points, and they have seven on the individual rankings at the moment (Hammond, Wiggins, Cav, Millar, Thomas, Cummings and Blyth).TeamSkyFans said:And GB are miles behind, although they were last year until the cav and wiggins show boosted them just a little bit over july. Cant see that happening again this year though. Maybe as well, i think sometimes you can take too many riders to the worlds, things get complicated