{"id":5040,"date":"2008-06-16T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:16:34","slug":"sevens-mcconneloug-moves-closer-to-olympic-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/sevens-mcconneloug-moves-closer-to-olympic-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven&#8217;s McConneloug Moves Closer to Olympic Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_win.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5041 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_win.jpg\" alt=\"Mary McConneloug crossing the finish line with arms up in victory\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_win.jpg 213w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_win-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After five rounds of World Cup racing, Mary McConneloug (Team Kenda-Seven) has overcome the first hurdle in achieving her goal of a nomination to the 2008 Olympic team: she is the number-two ranked American woman after the five qualifying races. Though a final decision won&#8217;t come until after this coming weekend&#8217;s World Championships in Italy, all indications at this time are that McConneloug and Georgia Gould (Luna) will be selected for the coveted two spots on the U.S. women&#8217;s XC mountain bike racing roster.<\/p>\n<p>Should Mary be selected, this will be her second nomination to the Olympics-her first being the 2004 games in Athens, Greece where she finished a strong 9th place. No other American woman in her event has ever been selected to the Olympics more than once.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for results from the World Championships and final Olympic team selection information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5042 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_bw.jpg\" alt=\"Mary McConneloug\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_bw.jpg 213w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/080616_mary_bw-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five rounds of World Cup racing, Mary McConneloug (Team Kenda-Seven) has overcome the first hurdle in achieving her goal of a nomination to the 2008 Olympic team: she is the number-two ranked American woman after the five qualifying races. Though a final decision won&#8217;t come until after this coming weekend&#8217;s World Championships in Italy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/sevens-mcconneloug-moves-closer-to-olympic-selection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven&#8217;s McConneloug Moves Closer to Olympic Selection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11797,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}