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OTHER CYCLING : Track Racing : Shane Stokes Last Updated: 2 Apr 2018 - 8:45:17 PM

NO WORLDS FOR IRISH TEAM PURSUIT SQUAD
By Shane Stokes
17 Mar 2009,

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Seventh and then fifth in the last two rounds of the track World Cup, the upwards progress of the Irish team pursuit squad has been temporarily interrupted due to the non-receipt of a wild card entry to this month’s world track championships.

The quartet of David O’Loughlin, David McCann, Paul Healion and Martyn Irvine had made steady progress of late, breaking their own Irish record in January and again last month in Copenhagen when they clocked four minutes 11.587 seconds. This put them less than a second outside the ride-off for the bronze medal.

The team have a current world ranking of eleventh despite riding just two out of the five rounds. This would normally earn them a place in the worlds; however, entry to the team pursuit requires a country to have had participants in at least one event at four of the World Cups, something Ireland did not do.

Cycling Ireland appealed this on financial grounds and hoped to get a wildcard slot. However the national federation heard in recent days that this bid was unsuccessful.

“Cycling Ireland is disappointed that a place for the team pursuit has not been secured,” said CEO Geoff Liffey. “However it fully understands the UCI criteria which is in place and why a place is not possible at the 2009 World Track Championships. The focus is now to continue to build on the recent progress over the next few months. The arrival of Phil Leigh [new High Performance Director] is sure to add some new energy and ideas to the High Performance Team”

The news means that Ireland will have just one entrant in the track worlds, as was the case last season. David O’Loughlin was a fine sixth in Manchester one year ago and will aim to improve on that. He was third in the Beijing World Cup and then last month finished second behind Taylor Phinney in Copenhagen.


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