The top of the Vuelta a España has made the image a lot clearer on which nations may have riders for the street races on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, with Belgium main the qualifying countries for males and the Netherlands for girls.
The following month will probably be crucial for nations to earn their spot for the street biking occasions, as handiest the highest 5 countries earn the utmost allocation of 4 athlete entries.
The 2024 Video games would be the first highway races with box dimension parity between the boys’s and girls’s races, and since biking didn’t acquire any further athlete allocations from the IOC, there’ll handiest be 180 general athletes in highway biking in Paris.
That suggests the street races may have handiest 88 males and 88 girls, and the riders competing within the person time trial will have to come from the riders decided on for the street races. France will get no less than two of the ones positions for being the host nation for a complete of 90 riders in each and every race.
It is going to make for an odd racing dynamic – the elite males will race 273 kilometres at the Trocadéro path, and the ladies will compete over 158 kilometres.
The quite a lot of Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOC) earn 80 of the street race allocations throughout the UCI Country Ratings, with the highest 5 nations getting 4 rider slots, the remainder of the highest 10 being given 3, Eleventh thru twentieth get two and Twenty first-Forty fifth get one spot.
Males’s Highway Race
After the Vuelta a España, Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia and France stay within the best 5 and in line to earn 4 athlete positions for the street race. Spain has knocked Nice Britain out of the highest 5 because of Mikel Landa, Enric Mas and Juan Ayuso‘s performances within the Vuelta.
The British mustn’t surrender hope for the utmost within the males’s Olympic match – they are handiest 80 issues from overtaking fifth-placed France. The Netherlands, Italy and Australia are not going to problem being 2,000 issues adrift.
America, for the primary time since 2012, stands to have greater than two riders after mountaineering into tenth in past due August. Kuss’ Vuelta victory has given the American citizens a lead of greater than 2,500 issues over Eleventh-place Colombia, who, in conjunction with Switzerland, Portugal, Norway, Germany, Austria, Eire, Canada, New Zealand and Eritrea are in line to get puts for 2 riders.
Asian, African and American NOCs who’ve no longer earned a place for Paris from the Country Ratings or Worlds effects get a possibility for any other likelihood from the Continental championships. The ones effects earned Uruguay, Mauritius and Korea an access until the highest 45 nations exchange.
Sweden, ranked forty ninth, earned one spot for placings within the males’s highway race at Worlds. The second one spot is unallocated as a result of all of the males’s finishers come from nations within the best 45 who earned an access from the scores.
If France continues to qualify for the utmost 4 spots, their two positions for being host nation will probably be reallocated in accordance with the Country Score to the highest nations who’ve no longer but certified.
Rwanda, Costa Rica, and Serbia are ready to get the unallocated spots at the newest scores, however the late-season races in Asia, just like the Excursion de Langkawi, will probably be a first-rate alternative for the lower-ranked groups to nudge the ones nations on the decrease finish of Forty fifth within the scores out of the allocation.
For the person time trial, entrants come from athletes already decided on for the street race. The highest 25 nations earn one access, whilst ten extra entries for the ITT are awarded to NOCs in accordance with effects on the International Championships.
Belgium, Denmark, Nice Britain, Italy, Australia, the US, Switzerland, Portugal, Norway and Canada earned one further place each and every.
The qualifying duration lasts thru October 17, 2023, with the Chrono des International locations, Japan Cup and Veneto Vintage the general races.
| Nation | Issues | Allocation | ITT entries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 21813.09 | 4 | 2 |
| Denmark | 18440.98 | 4 | 2 |
| Slovenia | 15570.34 | 4 | 1 |
| Spain | 14103.38 | 4 | 1 |
| France | 13721.15 | 4 | 1 |
| Nice Britain | 13641.2 | 3 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 11647.01 | 3 | 1 |
| Italy | 10854.28 | 3 | 2 |
| Australia | 9896.2 | 3 | 2 |
| United States | 9405.78 | 3 | 2 |
| Colombia | 6877.32 | 2 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 6629.58 | 2 | 2 |
| Portugal | 6199.91 | 2 | 2 |
| Norway | 5761.14 | 2 | 2 |
| Germany | 5602.62 | 2 | 1 |
| Austria | 4078.57 | 2 | 1 |
| Eire | 3960.83 | 2 | 1 |
| Canada | 3612 | 2 | 2 |
| New Zealand | 3603.22 | 2 | 1 |
| Eritrea | 2970.24 | 2 | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 2879.62 | 1 | 1 |
| Poland | 2466 | 1 | 1 |
| Latvia | 2327.14 | 1 | 1 |
| Ecuador | 1993.17 | 1 | 1 |
| Morocco | 1967 | 1 | 1 |
| ****** | 1931.98 | 1 | Row 25 – Mobile 3 |
| Czechia | 1682 | 1 | Row 26 – Mobile 3 |
| Hungary | 1345.36 | 1 | Row 27 – Mobile 3 |
| Algeria | 1308.5 | 1 | Row 28 – Mobile 3 |
| Slovakia | 1245 | 1 | Row 29 – Mobile 3 |
| Luxembourg | 1232.85 | 1 | Row 30 – Mobile 3 |
| Mongolia | 1206 | 1 | Row 31 – Mobile 3 |
| Japan | 1188 | 1 | Row 32 – Mobile 3 |
| Israel | 1127 | 1 | Row 33 – Mobile 3 |
| Uzbekistan | 1118.98 | 1 | Row 34 – Mobile 3 |
| Greece | 1098 | 1 | Row 35 – Mobile 3 |
| Argentina | 1088.25 | 1 | Row 36 – Mobile 3 |
| South Africa | 1069.57 | 1 | Row 37 – Mobile 3 |
| Estonia | 1053.88 | 1 | Row 38 – Mobile 3 |
| Türkiye | 1040 | 1 | Row 39 – Mobile 3 |
| Venezuela | 978 | 1 | Row 40 – Mobile 3 |
| Panama | 946 | 1 | Row 41 – Mobile 3 |
| Ukraine | 942.66 | 1 | Row 42 – Mobile 3 |
| Thailand | 798 | 1 | Row 43 – Mobile 3 |
| China | 775.32 | 1 | Row 44 – Mobile 3 |
| Uruguay | 735 | 1 | CC |
| Rwanda | 734.66 | 1 | Reallocation |
| Costa Rica | 712 | 1 | Reallocation |
| Sweden | 694 | 1 | WRR |
| Serbia | 679 | 1 | Reallocation |
| Hong Kong, China | 644.99 | Row 50 – Mobile 2 | Row 50 – Mobile 3 |
| Mauritius | 641.98 | 1 | CC |
| Chile | 621 | Row 52 – Mobile 2 | Row 52 – Mobile 3 |
| Brazil | 612 | 1 | CC |
| Korea | 612 | 1 | CC |
| Lithuania | 565.57 | Row 55 – Mobile 2 | Row 55 – Mobile 3 |
| Guatemala | 529 | Row 56 – Mobile 2 | Row 56 – Mobile 3 |
| Iran | 513 | 1 | CC |
| Uganda | 150 | 1 | CC |
Within the elite girls’s hunt for Olympic honours, the Netherlands are as ever a ways forward on the best of the scores, with Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland having a look slightly set to get 4 puts in Paris.
In 5th, Australia are chasing Nice Britain, simply 175 issues in the back of in 6th. France, Poland, Germany and the US are to this point cast for incomes 3 puts.
With a couple of riders to this point are Denmark, Canada, Austria, New Zealand, Spain, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Norway, Slovenia, and the unbiased athletes hailing from Russia.
As with the boys, the highest 25 nations at Worlds earn entries into the time trial (Netherlands thru Spain), with the Netherlands, Nice Britain, Australia, France, Poland, Germany, the US, Denmark, Austria and Slovenia slotting in a 2d spot within the TT.
Two riders each and every from Africa, Asia and the Americas whose NOCs have no longer but certified get an access in accordance with effects from the Continental Championships.
Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico and Uruguay seem to have one spot each and every wrapped up for the street races.
Those counts will shift because the season heads to an in depth, however for riders from the ones nations at the cusp, it’ll indisputably be at the back of their minds, if no longer on the urging in their nationwide federation, to check out to take hold of some issues.
| Rank 9/18 | Nation | Issues | Allocation | ITT entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands | 15031.23 | 4 | 2 |
| 2 | Italy | 8313.1 | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | Belgium | 6377 | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 5489.71 | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | Nice Britain | 5145.43 | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | Australia | 4972.45 | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | France | 4796.7 | 4 | 2 |
| 8 | Poland | 4604.76 | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | Germany | 3761.62 | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | United States | 3536.71 | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | Denmark | 3273.57 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Canada | 3046.64 | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | Austria | 2852 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | New Zealand | 2326.86 | 2 | 1 |
| 15 | Spain | 2234.62 | 2 | 1 |
| 16 | South Africa | 1954 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 | Uzbekistan | 1631.14 | 2 | 1 |
| 18 | Norway | 1337 | 2 | 1 |
| 19 | Slovenia | 1239.24 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | ****** | 1057.81 | 2 | 1 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 980.99 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Colombia | 978.57 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | Cuba | 844 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | Luxembourg | 840.86 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | Finland | 795 | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | Czechia | 793.36 | 1 | Row 25 – Mobile 4 |
| 27 | Rwanda | 792.98 | 1 | Row 26 – Mobile 4 |
| 28 | Thailand | 770 | 1 | Row 27 – Mobile 4 |
| 29 | Sweden | 750.86 | 1 | Row 28 – Mobile 4 |
| 30 | China | 682.98 | 1 | Row 29 – Mobile 4 |
| 31 | Chile | 658 | 1 | Row 30 – Mobile 4 |
| 32 | Serbia | 654 | 1 | Row 31 – Mobile 4 |
| 33 | Mauritius | 637.98 | 1 | Row 32 – Mobile 4 |
| 34 | Slovakia | 623 | 1 | Row 33 – Mobile 4 |
| 35 | Algeria | 588 | 1 | Row 34 – Mobile 4 |
| 36 | Costa Rica | 571 | 1 | Row 35 – Mobile 4 |
| 37 | Namibia | 570 | 1 | Row 36 – Mobile 4 |
| 38 | Brazil | 566 | 1 | Row 37 – Mobile 4 |
| 39 | Korea | 565 | 1 | Row 38 – Mobile 4 |
| 40 | Portugal | 535 | 1 | Row 39 – Mobile 4 |
| 41 | Hungary | 534.86 | 1 | Row 40 – Mobile 4 |
| 42 | Israel | 533 | 1 | Row 41 – Mobile 4 |
| 43 | Kazakhstan | 517.99 | 1 | Row 42 – Mobile 4 |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 473 | 1 | Row 43 – Mobile 4 |
| 45 | Hong Kong, China | 472.99 | 1 | Row 44 – Mobile 4 |
| 46 | Lithuania | 468 | 1 | Reallocation |
| 47 | Eire | 464.93 | Row 46 – Mobile 3 | Row 46 – Mobile 4 |
| 48 | Cyprus | 444 | Row 47 – Mobile 3 | Row 47 – Mobile 4 |
| 49 | Burkina Faso | 414.99 | 1 | CC |
| 50 | Estonia | 392.17 | Row 49 – Mobile 3 | Row 49 – Mobile 4 |
| 51 | Nigeria | Row 50 – Mobile 2 | 1 | CC |
| 53 | Vietnam | Row 51 – Mobile 2 | 1 | CC |
| 54 | Malaysia | Row 52 – Mobile 2 | 1 | CC |
| 65 | Latvia | Row 53 – Mobile 2 | 1 | WRR |
| 71 | Uruguay | Row 54 – Mobile 2 | 1 | CC |
| 72 | Trinidad & Tobago | Row 55 – Mobile 2 | 1 | WRR |
| 73 | Mexico | Row 56 – Mobile 2 | 1 | CC |