Cycling SA (CSA) have launched an appeal to the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) after the exclusion of an elite men’s road cycling team in the country’s contingent for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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“We sent an appeal yesterday afternoon and we have further motivated again this morning,” CSA general manager Mike Bradley said on Thursday.
“We are the number two ranked nation in terms of the Commonwealth countries. Louis Meintjes was a silver medallist in the under-23 category at the UCI road champs last year and, by virtue of that fact – because UCI does not have an under-23 specific ranking – he would then be ranked the highest rider in the Commonwealth in terms of the under-23s.
“If you also look at the riders ranked higher than Daryl Impey, currently in the Commonwealth, seven or six of them aren’t going to the event. They are all from UK cycling, so that makes Daryl the third highest ranked rider at the Commonwealth and we’ll appeal on all these three bases.”
Sascoc on Wednesday announced a 15-member cycling team, in a squad of 155 athletes to represent South Africa at the Glasgow Games, which run from July 23 to August 3.
Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, would line-up in the women’s road race alongside Cherise Stander, Heidi Dalton, Lise Olivier, Anriette Schoeman and Andri Coetzee.
While 2012 World Track Championship silver medallist Nolan Hoffman, Morne van Niekerk, Kellan Gouveris, Oupa Maluleke, Bernard Esterhuizen, Theuns van der Bank and Evan Carstens, would all participate in the track events at the Games. – Sapa
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