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This. A bit like Kennaugh getting the nod ahead of Cummings, and let us not forget it was Kennaugh withdrawing rather than the British selectors choosing Cummings that meant he actually went in the end. Pooley didn't finish the RR and underperformed in the TT, and she wasn't riding well ahead of the games.
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Correction, Pooley did finish the RR, I watched her ride across the line.
I'm not saying she should have been selected for it but coming out of retirement shouldn't be a barrier, particularly given the current state of women's cycling. Annie Last nearly retired from cycling in 2015 at the age of 23 simply because she couldn't get a team. That was despite coming 3rd in the CX National Champs ahead of sponsored riders.
The_Seldom_Killer
I think Pooley should've gone if she'd shown decent form beforehand. But she didn't and it appeared, to me at least, that she was selected on reputation rather than form, which doesn't seem to fit with the BC ethos of performance based selection.
I don't know what Dani King did that upset the selectors so much, but she should've gone in Pooley's place.