GIANT MTB TEAM MEMBERS ADAM CRAIG AND KELLI EMMETT SELECTED FOR UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

 USA Cycling selected its full squad for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy, June 15-22 after previously announcing the junior and U23 cross country teams.
Six men and seven women have been nominated to the elite cross country squad. Adam Craig received the only automatic nomination to the men's team as a top-15 ranked American male in the UCI rankings. He is joined by Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Todd Wells, Jeremiah Bishop, Michael Broderick and Sam Schultz, who all received discretionary nominations.
On the women's side, Georgia Gould and Mary McConneloug were automatically nominated - Gould by virtue of her podium performances at UCI World Cup events this year in Houffalize and Madrid and McConneloug due to her eighth-place UCI ranking. Heather Irmiger, Willow Koerber, Sue Haywood, Lea Davison and Kelli Emmett all received discretionary nominations based upon international results.
US National Team for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships--Cross country
Elite men: Adam Craig, Todd Wells, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Jeremiah Bishop, Michael Broderick, Sam Schultz
Elite women: Mary McConneloug, Georgia Gould, Willow Koerber, Heather Irmiger, Sue Haywood, Lea Davison, Kelli Emmett
A complete team listing, including Downhill and 4X competitors, can be found at:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2008/jun08/jun08news
ADAM CRAIG FINISHES 16TH IN WORLD CUP RACE; BERTH LOOKS SECURE FOR OLYMPICS
Giant MTB competitor and US National Cross Country champion Adam Craig would seem to have a lock on representing the United States at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August. At the MTB World Cup XC #5 event in Fort William Scotland on June 7, Craig finished 16th. Combined with the points he’s accumulated in his other World Cup competitions this year means that Adam should be on his way to the Olympics. Adam blogs about his World Cup experiences in 2008 at www.ridelife.net. Click on “RIDER BLOGS--ADAM CRAIG” at the bottom of the page.