{"id":6394,"date":"2021-06-11T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2021-06-11T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:20:52","slug":"cross-country-and-downhill-world-championships-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/11\/cross-country-and-downhill-world-championships-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-country and Downhill  World Championships 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cycling Ireland Off-road Commission is seeking expressions of interest from riders, male and female, in the Junior and Elite (Under 23) age-groups who would like to be supported to race in either the UCI Cross-country (XCO) World Championships or the UCI Downhill (DHI) World Championships.  Both events take place in Val Di Sole, Italy on 25-29 August 2021.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valdisolebikeland.com\/en\/uci-mountain-bike-world-champs-2021\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.valdisolebikeland.com\/en\/uci-mountain-bike-world-champs-2021\/<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We appreciate that there has been no events over the last 14 months.  Interested riders should seek to compete in events outside of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>This document is an early notification of the criteria that will be used to select eligible riders and allow riders to be fully prepared for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The squad size still needs to be confirmed.  <\/p>\n<p>Funding would cover travel costs and accommodation only.  <\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Permission to travel to the World Championships will depend on the COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selection Criteria<\/strong><br \/>\nThe riders must hold a 2021 UCI competition membership licence with the country code \u201cIRELAND\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship\u2019s registration period runs from <strong>11 June to 8 August 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Riders will be asked to complete a cycling CV to show their results for this period.<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cycling Ireland Off-road Commission is seeking expressions of interest from riders, male and female, in the Junior and Elite (Under 23) age-groups who would like to be supported to race in either the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xc","category-dh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6395,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions\/6395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}