Peter Sagan's Olympic MTB hopes appear gone as Slovakia misses qualification

Peter Sagan during the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships.

Peter Sagan's longshot to make it to the Olympic Games in mountain bike appear to be over as Slovakia did not climb high enough in the UCI rankings before the end of the qualification period on Sunday.

Slovakia was 35th in the UCI MTB Olympic Qualification Ranking published today, well outside the top 19 nations which earned automatic entry to the cross-country race in Paris.