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WCRR 2014 Ponferrada number of spots for each nation

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Netserk

Netserk

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The UCI rankings have been updated and the calculations can begin!

UCI Rankings

Rules

From rule #1 (WT spots)

Spain 9
France 9
Italy 9
Netherlands 9
Colombia 8+1=9 (8 riders with WT points, 3rd in America Tour gives the last spot)
Australia 9
Belgium 9
Poland 6+3=9 (3 riders with WT points gives the minimum of 6 spots, 9th in Europe Tour gives three spots)
Germany 9
Great Britain 8+1=9 (8 riders with WT points, 14th in Europe Tour gives the last spot)

So to sum up, all nations in the top-10 of the WT ranking have the maximum of 9 spots.

From rule #2 (Africa Tour)

Morocco 6
Eritrea 3
Algeria 3

From rule #3 (America Tour)

Venezuela 6
USA 6
Brazil 3
Costa Rica 3
Argentina 3

From rule #4 (Asia Tour)

Iran 6
Kazakhstan 3
Japan 3
Korea 3

From rule #5 (Europe Tour)

Ukraine 6
Russia 6
Slovenia 6
Denmark 6
Austria 6
Portugal 6
Czech Republic 3
Switzerland 3
Norway 3
Ireland 3
Romania 3
Croatia 3
Estonia 3
Latvia 3

From rule #6 (Oceania Tour)

New Zealand 3

From rule #7 (Extra WT spots)

Slovakia 3
Canada 3
Lithuania 3
South Africa 3
Luxembourg 3
Belarus 3

Hmm, only 7.a has any effect as there's no case for 7.b, 7.c and 7.d :O

From rule #8 (Extra Continental spots)

Ecuador 1
Sweden 1
Serbia 1
Bulgaria 1
Greece 1
 
Netserk

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If anyone spots a mistake, please let me know! :)

Edit: done! Full overview here:

Nations with 9 spots:

Spain
France
Italy
Netherlands
Colombia
Australia
Belgium
Poland
Germany
Great Britain

Nations with 6 spots:

Morocco
Venezuela
USA
Iran
Ukraine
Russia
Slovenia
Denmark
Austria
Portugal

Nations with 3 spots:

Eritrea
Algeria
Brazil
Costa Rica
Argentina
Kazakhstan
Japan
Korea
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Norway
Ireland
Romania
Croatia
Estonia
Latvia
New Zealand
Slovakia
Canada
Lithuania
South Africa
Luxembourg
Belarus

Nations with 1 spot:

Ecuador
Sweden
Serbia
Bulgaria
Greece
 
trevim

trevim

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Wow 6 riders for Portugal!... Costa, Machado and Cardoso are probably certain. Then perhaps Manuel Cardoso, Bruno Pires. I would like to see Antonio Carvalho in there as well because the route suits him. Edgar Pinto, Ricardo Vilela, Joni Brandao or Amaro Antunes could be good picks too.
 
Akuryo

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Wow, 9 riders for Poland. If Kwiatkowski can manage to get his form back for the Worlds, he will have a lot of support! My homecountry Germany will probably again do nothing with their 9 guys. Course is too hard for the likes of Kittel, Greipel, Degenkolb. And Tony Martin will focus on the TT's. So the only guy for hilly roads is Geschke ...
 
SafeBet

SafeBet

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Akuryo said:
Wow, 9 riders for Poland. If Kwiatkowski can manage to get his form back for the Worlds, he will have a lot of support! My homecountry Germany will probably again do nothing with their 9 guys. Course is too hard for the likes of Kittel, Greipel, Degenkolb. And Tony Martin will focus on the TT's. So the only guy for hilly roads is Geschke ...
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Are you sure it's too hard for Degenkolb? I think it really depends on how hard it is ridden.

I'm truly worried about the italian team. The only world class rider we have at this point is Nibali, but for him to win it would take almost a miracle.
 
Netserk

Netserk

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SafeBet said:
Are you sure it's too hard for Degenkolb? I think it really depends on how hard it is ridden.

I'm truly worried about the italian team. The only world class rider we have at this point is Nibali, but for him to win it would take almost a miracle.
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Without Ulissi, all support behind Pozzato! :p
 
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Cult Classics

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Wow, I guess Switzerland got their points in the wrong ways this year. 12th in the World Tour rankings yet only 3 riders to show for it. They could have got the same number of riders from just Cancellara alone (aka the Sagan rule). Seems odd that if they had focused all their efforts on just World Tour or just Europe Tour they would have been rewarded far more than this. Oh well, Cancellara will just have to do it by himself.
 
Netserk

Netserk

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Cult Classics said:
That's also a lot of riders... 219 already before rule 8. 207, 208 and 2010 riders in the last 3 editions.
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Sweden will get a spot via rule 8, but other than that I don't think (m)any others will. If only the UCI website (the ranking part of it) worked for a minute, I'd be done with this already :mad:
 
ToreBear

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I wish they could set the maximum at 6 riders each and then have more riders on some of the teams. The race would be more interesting with smaller teams.

Also Norway might get more than 3 riders.:(
 
Ricco'

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Are you sure that Poland can send 9 riders instead of 6?

If I see this right, last year the United States were in the top-10 of the UCI World Tour and could only send 7 riders despite the fact that they were second in the America Tour.

I read the rule as if the 6 minimum is defined after the addition of the quota from the continental rankings (for example if Poland only had 2 riders in the WT rankings and qualified 3 through the Europe ranking, they would have 6 instead of 5).

Here is the explanation of CyclingQuotes last year which goes with my interpretation of the rules. This way Portugal, Switzerland and the US could add 1 more cyclist.

"This means that Colombia, Poland, Switzerland and Slovakia may qualify further places through the continental circuits. Colombia leads the America Tour nations ranking, and is therefore entitled to 6 riders on top of the 4 qualified through the WorldTour. As the upper limit is at 9 starters, Colombia will get 9 spots for the World Championships, and can therefore be expected to play a big part in the race.

Poland and Switzerland are 13th and 14th, respectively, in the Europe Tour nations ranking, qualifying 3 extra riders each; Slovakia and Great Britain are 21st and 22nd, respectively, and thus don’t get any extra spots this way. Altogether, Poland will be able to start with 6 riders (3+3), Switzerland gets 8 starters (5+3), Great Britain also gets 8 spots (8+0). Slovakia, despite having only two riders ranked in the WorldTour, gets 6 spots, the minimum for a nation in the WorldTour top-10."
 
Netserk

Netserk

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Ricco' said:
Are you sure that Poland can send 9 riders instead of 6?

If I see this right, last year the United States were in the top-10 of the UCI World Tour and could only send 7 riders despite the fact that they were second in the America Tour.

I read the rule as if the 6 minimum is defined after the addition of the quota from the continental rankings (for example if Poland only had 2 riders in the WT rankings and qualified 3 through the Europe ranking, they would have 6 instead of 5).

Here is the explanation of CyclingQuotes last year which goes with my interpretation of the rules. This way Portugal, Switzerland and the US could add 1 more cyclist.

"This means that Colombia, Poland, Switzerland and Slovakia may qualify further places through the continental circuits. Colombia leads the America Tour nations ranking, and is therefore entitled to 6 riders on top of the 4 qualified through the WorldTour. As the upper limit is at 9 starters, Colombia will get 9 spots for the World Championships, and can therefore be expected to play a big part in the race.

Poland and Switzerland are 13th and 14th, respectively, in the Europe Tour nations ranking, qualifying 3 extra riders each; Slovakia and Great Britain are 21st and 22nd, respectively, and thus don’t get any extra spots this way. Altogether, Poland will be able to start with 6 riders (3+3), Switzerland gets 8 starters (5+3), Great Britain also gets 8 spots (8+0). Slovakia, despite having only two riders ranked in the WorldTour, gets 6 spots, the minimum for a nation in the WorldTour top-10."
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New rules this year AFAIK.
 
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Ricco' said:
Are you sure that Poland can send 9 riders instead of 6?

If I see this right, last year the United States were in the top-10 of the UCI World Tour and could only send 7 riders despite the fact that they were second in the America Tour.

I read the rule as if the 6 minimum is defined after the addition of the quota from the continental rankings (for example if Poland only had 2 riders in the WT rankings and qualified 3 through the Europe ranking, they would have 6 instead of 5).

Here is the explanation of CyclingQuotes last year which goes with my interpretation of the rules. This way Portugal, Switzerland and the US could add 1 more cyclist.

"This means that Colombia, Poland, Switzerland and Slovakia may qualify further places through the continental circuits. Colombia leads the America Tour nations ranking, and is therefore entitled to 6 riders on top of the 4 qualified through the WorldTour. As the upper limit is at 9 starters, Colombia will get 9 spots for the World Championships, and can therefore be expected to play a big part in the race.

Poland and Switzerland are 13th and 14th, respectively, in the Europe Tour nations ranking, qualifying 3 extra riders each; Slovakia and Great Britain are 21st and 22nd, respectively, and thus don’t get any extra spots this way. Altogether, Poland will be able to start with 6 riders (3+3), Switzerland gets 8 starters (5+3), Great Britain also gets 8 spots (8+0). Slovakia, despite having only two riders ranked in the WorldTour, gets 6 spots, the minimum for a nation in the WorldTour top-10."
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I read it the same as Netserk:


The nations that have fewer than 9 riders classified in the individual UCI WorldTour can complete their remaining athlete quota, by adding the places it would have received through their respective continental circuit – the UCI Africa Tour, UCI America Tour, UCI Asia Tour, UCI Europe Tour and the UCI Oceania Tour – but must not, however, exceed the athlete quota of 14 riders with 9 to start obtained in the UCI WorldTour classification by nation.

It's then got a table (which I can't paste here) showing the previous position at a minimum of 6.
 
Afrank

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I'm truly worried about the italian team. The only world class rider we have at this point is Nibali, but for him to win it would take almost a miracle.
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Do no doubt the mans desire!...to get out of that god awful Italian champion jersey.

You heard it here first, Nibs for world championships 2014. :cool:
 
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Ricco' said:
Are you sure that Poland can send 9 riders instead of 6?

If I see this right, last year the United States were in the top-10 of the UCI World Tour and could only send 7 riders despite the fact that they were second in the America Tour.
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USA was 12th in WT ranking last year (deadline was August 15th as well)
 
Bernie's eyesore

Bernie's eyesore

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Good to see Britain have the full quota of 9 riders, they should be able to ride at least 200km on the front now before they have all dropped out.
 
Pricey_sky

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Bernie's eyesore said:
Good to see Britain have the full quota of 9 riders, they should be able to ride at least 200km on the front now before they have all dropped out.
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I think your being optimistic, I say only 150km! :D

Interesting in Froome's recent interview that the Worlds plan is for Swift and Froome will ride for him.
 
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