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Last Updated: 2 Apr 2018 - 8:45:17 PM |
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| Selectors Choice: Olympic Selection not official until Wednesday - Graphic by P Purfield |
While no official announcement will be made by Cycling Ireland until Wednesday, Ag2R Prevoyance rider Mark Scanlon and Navigators professional Ciarán Power were today notified that they are the Irish Olympic selection committee’s choice for the 2004 Games.
Scanlon’s nomination is no big secret, given that he is the country’s strongest rider and had double the world ranking points of the other contenders before today’s national road race championships in Sligo.
Power’s selection was greeted with a little more surprise by some, even though he started the day with 99 UCI points which was a higher total than the other riders. David McCann was on 89 points, David O’Loughlin on 55 and the promising young espoir Philip Deignan on 14. The latter has however had some excellent results in the top under 23 events this year.
However Power’s sixth place today meant that some had expected either O’Loughlin or McCann get the nod this evening. Once the various points were added up under Cycling Ireland’s selection criteria, though, the selectors felt that Power was still ahead and so would be offered the place.
O’Loughlin and McCann’s reactions are not known. They have been named as first and second reserve to the team.
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