#carmen small

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Scholarships for women to become UCI certified Sport Directors - YouTube

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Why am I in need of help some have asked… to be honest and put it simply the cost to challenge (arbitrate) against USA Cycling will be between 1/4 and 1/2 of my annual salary. As a professional female cyclist I don’t have endorsement deals and supplemental income. I certainly don’t earn six figures, I consider myself lucky to be earning 5! Our sport is certainly evolving with more races available live online and sometimes on TV but we are far from where the mens side of the sport is. Simply put I need help to pay the legal fee’s associated with challenging my non-selection to the Olympic team. I am fighting this selection for the simple fact that all my involvement with USA Cycling and everything I’ve ever been told by them said race in Europe, do the big races, do the hard races and race against the best in the world. This year leading up to the Olympics I took that to heart. I went to Europe before the Spring and came home just before the National Championships at the end of May. I did the hard races, I raced against the best and I had good consistent results. National Championships is a race with the best professional women in the United States. It’s one of the few times a year we race against one another (it should be considered an Olympic Trials just like Swimming or Track and Field). I took my whole first half of the season and put my full ability on the road and succeeded. I beat the best and I beat them by a large margin. Unfortunately this event isn’t even considered in the USA Cycling Olympic Selection process.

July 4th – A note from your National Champion – Carmen Small

Carmen Small has a Go Fund Me to fight USA Cycling over her non-selection for the Rio team - her blog explains why

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Jacobs told ESPN that Small is not looking to replace a specific rider, only to show that she meets the criteria to be selected. Small wrote to ESPN, "This showing of my ability in my mind was not just worthy of my Olympic selection, but also the potential to be a gold-medal favourite. This time around, I feel that I am the best athlete for the selection.''

Carmen Small to fight USA Cycling Olympic Games selection in arbitration hearing | Cyclingnews.com

More Olympic drama

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Carmen Small wins the 2016 USA National ITT Championships - via Gallery: Phinney and Small win big at TT nationals        

1.   Carmen Small (USA) Cervélo-Bigla, 0:42:32 2.   Amber Neben (USA) BePink, + 00:23 3.   Kristin Armstrong (USA) Twenty16-Ridebiker, + 01:08 4.   Brianna Walle (USA) Tibco-SVB, + 01:31 5.   Lauren Stephens (USA) Tibco-SVB, + 01:52 6.   Evelyn Stevens (USA) Boels-Dolmans, + 01:53 7.   Tayler Wiles (USA) ORICA-AIS, + 01:54 8.   Chloé Dygert (USA) Twenty16-Ridebiker, + 01:56 9.   Julie Emmerman (USA), + 02:55 10. Leah Thomas (USA) Twenty16-Ridebiker, + 03:03

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I was second wheel going into the longest gravel section so the first part of the race went really well. I was racing a good race and everything was going according to plan. Going into the longest gravel section, it was pretty hectic. I managed to get right to the front and the rider in front of me took the corners too fast and I was forced into the lose gravel on a corner. I went down and had to change bikes which already was game over but I managed to do a good chase with the support of Clara [Koppenburg] and Gaby [Pilote Fortin]. We were just about to rejoin the front group and a train was coming so the booms were going down. It was just starting to go down and we rode across and got disqualified. We were 100 metres to the peloton and there were only two cars between us. What do you do in that situation? I had never been in that situation before. I had really good legs and think I could have been on the podium today but that’s cycling.

Cervélo Bigla Pro Cycling » Reactions from Moolman-Pasio and Small from Strade Bianche

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There is a reason why men and women have different chamois. Let me tell you, after 85 miles … ouch. I prefer women’s chamois. This wasn’t the strangest thing for me that week, however. Yes, I am going there: men peeing off their bikes.

Carmen Small, on racing with men at the North Star Grand Prix.

Velonews has a very brief post-race debrief from Carmen that left me wanting more.

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When the men’s domestic peloton lines up for the start of the North Star Grand Prix in Saint Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday, they may notice an unfamiliar face in the bunch. With the blessing of both race organizers and USA Cycling, Twenty16-Sho-Air’s Carmen Small will participate in the men’s National Racing Calendar (NRC) event as a guest of Texas-based Elbowz Racing. “It’s pretty wild, right?” the 35-year-old Durango, Colorado native said to VeloNews. “I’ve even bought a plane ticket. I’m definitely a little nervous, but ready to give it a shot.”

Just One of the Boys: Carmen Small to race men’s North Star Grand Prix NRC | Velonews

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Just One of the Boys: Carmen Small to race men’s North Star Grand Prix NRC

“…Men’s races are open to riders with professional and category 1 licenses,” LaPorte explained to VeloNews. “It doesn’t say ‘men.’ I mean men obviously can’t participate in women’s races, because those are gender-specific. But there’s really no such thing as a men’s race. Women can always race their category…”