USA Team for Olympic RR

JMS said:

2. Armstrong (from grand tour 1st)

I bet he won't start.

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Quoted message said:

If I have read the selection criteria correctly, there
will be no discretionary picks to the team unless one of
the automatic qualifiers turns down their spot.

Here is a link to the qualifying regs:
209.177.135.180olympic.pdfOpen ↗ Please correct
me if you think I have misread it.

By my reckoning, the five slots are already allocated to
automatic qualifiers. In order of priority:

1. The winner of the trials race in June.
2. Armstrong (from grand tour 1st)
3. Hamilton (from grand tour 4th)
4. Julich (from 2.hc 3rd)
5. Hincapie (from 2.hc 5th)

The only way that Freddy Rodriguez, Danielson, Landis,
Leipheimer, Horner, or anyone else is getting on the team
is to win the trials or to place in the top five of a
grand tour, world cup, 1.hc, or 2.hc race by July 5.
Actually, some of these guys are capable of doing it, and
have done it in past years: Freddy (2nd in Milan-SanRemo,
Gent-Wevelgem), Floyd (2nd in Dauphine), and Levi (3rd in
Vuelta).

All right! We have a nice little horse race going, with no
chance of any officials getting to play favorites.

No chance at all? I wouldn't bet on it.

Andy Coggan

JMS said:

All right! We have a nice little horse race going, with no
chance of any officials getting to play favorites. I think
I'll email a few of the top riders to let them know, just
in case they were unaware.

That's too bad. That's not how the teams that win lots of
medals do it.

Everybody else picks riders with the intention of having
them fill roles and work as a cohesive unit. Here in the US
we'd like to run a race and pick the top five. If we get a
team with complementary abilities it is pure dumb luck.

Favortism is a symptom. The underlying issue is the
people making the selections, not the method of
assembling the team.

Bob Schwartz [email hidden]

[email hidden] (JMS) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

If I have read the selection criteria correctly, there
will be no discretionary picks to the team unless one of
the automatic qualifiers turns down their spot.

Here is a link to the qualifying regs:
209.177.135.180olympic.pdfOpen ↗ Please correct
me if you think I have misread it.

By my reckoning, the five slots are already allocated to
automatic qualifiers. In order of priority:

1. The winner of the trials race in June.
2. Armstrong (from grand tour 1st)
3. Hamilton (from grand tour 4th)
4. Julich (from 2.hc 3rd)
5. Hincapie (from 2.hc 5th)

The only way that Freddy Rodriguez, Danielson, Landis,
Leipheimer, Horner, or anyone else is getting on the team
is to win the trials or to place in the top five of a
grand tour, world cup, 1.hc, or 2.hc race by July 5.
Actually, some of these guys are capable of doing it, and
have done it in past years: Freddy (2nd in Milan-SanRemo,
Gent-Wevelgem), Floyd (2nd in Dauphine), and Levi (3rd in
Vuelta).

All right! We have a nice little horse race going, with no
chance of any officials getting to play favorites. I think
I'll email a few of the top riders to let them know, just
in case they were unaware.

JMS

Isn't there a criteria for pulling some type of sled
contraption all over the country behind a mountian bike?

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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:01:26 -0000, Bob Schwartz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

That's too bad. That's not how the teams that win lots of
medals do it.

Everybody else picks riders with the intention of having
them fill roles and work as a cohesive unit.

Think there is a big difference between how everbody picks
their teams and the how the winners do it. I agree with
your first statement and think it works so well because
your second statement is generally not true, at least not
top to bottom.

Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on
two wheels...

brian roth said:

Isn't there a criteria for pulling some type of sled
contraption all over the country behind a mountian bike?

That's how you know the selection process is rigged. Because
they completely ignore manly stuff like that.

Bob Schwartz [email hidden]