The first step towards creating the team is the nomination process. Each team may nominate as many or as few of their own riders to ride in the world championships. The selectors then choose from the available riders to create the road race, time trial and team time trial squads. So every rider nominated in this thread will be made available for all three squads – this thread is for nominations for the road race, time trial and team time trial squads. The only exception is if a nation is participating in one event but not in others (for example it is in the TT and not the RR), in which case the riders nominated will obviously only be available for whatever their nation qualifies for. When nominating your riders please give their full name, as it makes it much easier for me to keep track.

With loaned riders, both the team which is loaning them and also the team that they are being loaned to may nominate them. Remember that only nominated riders may be chosen by the selectors, meaning that the worlds will only be contested by riders from active teams who nominate them. The only exception is in the team time trial where, if there are not enough nominated riders from teams, the teams will be filled from riders without a contract. Teams who do not have enough riders nominated may be downgraded a level.

Further, any teams whose most suitable riders aren't nominated may be withdrawn and replaced by one of the reserve teams. This means that if the only big star of a small country is not nominated that country will lose its position to the next reserve team in line. (Thus nominating riders for the reserve teams is important.)

You can also volunteer to become a selector for any of the countries in the WC. If you want this please say so in your post or you will miss out. Please note that the selection process has changed for a couple of seasons and is described below.
- To do this, you must have a rider in your team from that country, even if you are not nominating them.
- Once the nominations are in, the selectors for each and every country will have to send in a ranked list of riders of their country for each discipline - RR, ITT, TTT. Selections are not required for U23 races. (There will be no PMs sent by me or anyone else, which was done till 2020). The list of eligible riders will be put up before the selectors need to start their work.
- In case of ties, a rider's suitability to the particular race will be take precedence followed by OVL. There will be only one ranking round for the selectors.
- The more selectors a country has, the better. This is a great way to influence the game and a very fun part of the process, even if none of your riders are directly affected.

If you are confused about any of this, post your question below and myself or one of the other experienced people will answer your question. If you haven’t done this before then it is also a good idea to check out last year`s thread for an example of what you have to do to nominate riders and become a selector: https://pcmdaily....rowstart=0

Under 23 Startlists
Riders not selected for the Elite Road Race and aged 23 or under will be available for the U23 Road Race. Likewise riders not selected for the Elite Time Trial will be available for the U23 Time Trial. The startlists for these races will be compiled by the reporters from the available riders. Note that these do not have to be nominated at any point – all eligible riders will be available for selection.

Fabianski wrote:

Points don't have any impact on ITT participants? Really hurts to see Switzerland miss out there, in particular don't see any reason why they should be ranked behind South Africa or Chile.

AbhishekLFC wrote:


ITT countries have always been selected according to strength of the country's best time-trial rider.