The Colombian Cycling Federationor announced the members of the team that will represent the country on the track of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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“The athletes selected to represent the country, in the company of Martha Bayona and Kevin Quintero, previously announced, are: Cristian Ortega, who will be present in the keirin and men’s speed tests; Stefany Cuadrado, who will also compete in the women’s keirin and sprint, and Fernando Gaviria, that will be part of the male omnium,” says Fedeciclismo.
By quotas
And he added: “For Cristian Ortega and Stefany Cuadrado it will be their first experience in the Olympic Games, while Fernando Gaviria will return to an Olympic event after his participation in Rio 2016, a competition in which he finished fourth overall in the omnium and won Olympic diploma, in discipline where he holds two elite world titles and one youth title in his record.”
Gaviria’s call caused controversy, since the person who achieved the necessary points to get the box was Juan Esteban Arango, which has generated controversy. Furthermore, Gaviria has not run on the track for a long time, although he has won his world titles there.
“I got the Olympic quota for Colombia 2 months ago and the track director called me telling me that Fernando Gaviria was going. In the call that the track director made to me he told me that Fernando Gaviria was going. Maybe because he was on a team WorldTour, Suddenly I was more likely to be in the Olympic Games,” Arango told Caracol.
And he stated: “I feel very sad and very sorry that I must accept the request as a professional runner, something that I do not share in this case.”
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