As part of its nomination process, USA Cycling named a Long Team of eligible athletes in the disciplines of men's and women's mountain bike and women's road cycling, which will serve as a list of riders from which this summer's Olympic Team will named.Of the six men named to the mountain bike squad, five received automatic nominations as the top-five Americans in the UCI Mountain Bike Rankings on December 31, 2007 and provided they were in the top 60 overall - Adam Craig (Bend, Ore.), Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo.), Todd Wells (Durango, Colo.), Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, W. Va.) and Michael Broderick (Chilmark, Mass.). The sixth-ranked American, Sam Schultz (Missoula, Mont.) received the only discretionary nomination to the men's mountain bike Long Team.
"This is a gratifying acknowledgement of all the hard work I've put into [my career as an athlete]," Bishop says of his qualification onto the Olympic Long Team. "It's an honor to be recognized in this way, and it's the first step in the qualification process to making it to the Olympics later this year."
Pat McDonough, USA Cycling Director of Athletics, sent his congratulations to all the athletes named to the 2008 Olympic Long Team. "Their hard work and determination to succeed has helped raise the level of American cycling to remarkable heights and their collective accomplishments are indicative of the United States' ability to be a legitimate medal contender across all four disciplines of competitive cycling in Beijing. The athletes on this list have either proven their capabilities to win medals in major international events or illustrated the potential to do so in the future."
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