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Article: Arbiter reverses cycling decision: Haywood loses her spot on U.S. Olympic team
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- July 21, 2004
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Mary McConneloug won her appeal Tuesday to be nominated to the
Olympic women's mountain biking team, overturning USA Cycling's
selection of West Virginia resident Sue Haywood and ending a bizarre
process that will likely be remembered more for confusion than
accomplishment.
The arbiter ruled that USA Cycling's decision to add 15 points to
Haywood's international total - a decision that pushed her one point
ahead of McConneloug in a yearlong battle for the lone women's
mountain start position allocated to the Americans for the Athens
Games - wasn't justified.
"We fully support the arbitrator's decision to nominate Mary and
feel that she will be a competitive force and fine delegate of the ...