*** Youth Olympic Games Newsletter ***
Second Youth Olympic Games newsletter available
Date: 10/12/2009
Description:
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has published its second
2010 Youth Olympic Games newsletter on the UCI website.
It is now 10 months until the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG),
organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), get
under way in Singapore. Cycling is one of 26 sports at the 2010
Games, and the three cycling disciplines, BMX, mountain bike
and road, will take place from 16th to 22nd August.
In the UCI’s second Youth Olympic Games newsletter, ( .PDF File )
the UCI names 27 of the countries that have already
qualified for the cycling disciplines at the Games.
YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 2010 SINGAPORE
Bulletin N°2 | October 2009
Less than one year before the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG),
which will take place in Singapore in August 2010, the young hopefuls
in the different cycling disciplines are already focused on this new
major international sporting celebration.
In this second Youth Olympic Games Newsletter, the UCI is pleased
to be able to announce the countries who have already qualified for
the YOG cycling events.
TWENTY-SEVEN COUNTRIES ALREADY QUALIFIED FOR CYCLING EVENTS
The International Cycling Union (UCI) this week published a list of
27 National Olympic Committees qualified for the Singapore Youth
Olympic Games. Of these 27 NOCs, 26 have qualified under two
different sporting criteria, while Singapore qualifies as host country.
Each of these nations can enter a team of three boys and one girl,
born between 1 January 1992 and 31 December 1993. Fifteen of the
27 NOCs qualified under the "endurance" criteria, based on the final
ranking of the 2009 UCI Juniors Nations Cup.
Another 11 nations qualified under the "performance" criteria, based
on the cumulated ranking by nation of the 2009 UCI Junior Men's BMX
and Mountain Bike Olympic Cross-country World Championships.
The NOCs now have until 5 November to confirm their intention to
take part in the YOG. If any countries desist, the UCI will reallocate
the available places.
The list of NOCs qualified under the criteria
mentioned above is as follows:
1 BELGIUM - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
2 NETHERLANDS - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
3 FRANCE - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
4 UNITED STATES - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
5 GERMANY - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
6 DENMARK - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
7 RUSSIA - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
8 AUSTRIA - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
9 PORTUGAL - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
10 CANADA - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
11 ITALY - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
12 CZECH REPUBLIC - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
13 POLAND - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
14 NEW ZEALAND - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
15 SLOVENIA - ENDURANCE CRITERIA
16 AUSTRALIA - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
17 SWITZERLAND - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
18 SOUTH AFRICA - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
19 ARGENTINA - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
20 BRAZIL - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
21 HUNGARY - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
22 NORWAY - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
23 SWEDEN - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
24 JAPAN - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
25 GREAT BRITAIN - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
26 KAZAKHSTAN - PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
EUROPE: 17
AMERICA: 4
OCEANIA: 2
ASIA: 2
AFRICA: 1
TOTAL: 26
As the host country, Singapore, can also enter a team,
the total number of countries qualified to date is 27.
In addition five "universality" places remain to be allocated.
The relative deadlines for the qualification process are as follows:
5 October 2009 -
The UCI notifies the NOCs of their qualification places
5 November 2009 -
The NOCs confirm to the UCI their intention to participate
1 June 2010 -
The NOCs confirm that they will definitely participate
1 June - 14 July 2010 -
Final reallocation of places not used by the NOCs
15 July 2010 -
Entries deadline, including names, for all sports
YOUNG ATHLETES PREPARING YOG AT WORLD CYCLING CENTRE
Fifteen young athletes aged between 15 and 17 years are currently
training at the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in Aigle, Switzerland, to
prepare the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
The young cyclists from Bolivia, Singapore and Brazil will train for
the road, mountain bike and BMX disciplines during the month-long
course organized by the International Cycling Union (UCI) in
collaboration with Olympic Solidarity.
Singapore and Brazil have already qualified for the Games, while
Bolivia hopes to obtain its ticket in the form of a "universality" spot.
The thirteen males and two females are being trained in Aigle by
UCI coach Sébastien Duclos and French BMX specialist Thomas Allier.
The camp provides the young athletes with endurance training while
at the same time developing technical aspects, which is necessary
considering that many of the participants are confronting at least
one of the cycling disciplines for the first time: the female member
of each team must compete in the road, mountain bike and BMX
disciplines at the YOG, while their male teammates will be required
to compete in the road race plus one of the two remaining disciplines.
A similar training camp will probably be organized at the WCC in 2010.
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