Jamie Edmondson Pulls Out of Maribor World Cup Due to Brexit Related Visa Issues
Jamie Edmondson has announced he won't be racing in Maribor this weekend as he was unable to secure a Visa to enter Slovenia.
Previously, British riders could enter Slovenia and the rest of the European Union without any documents beyond their passport but Jamie has fallen foul of new rules following Brexit that restrict the amount of time he can spend in EU countries.
 | Devastated to say that I won’t be racing in Maribor this weekend, Brexit doing Brexit things meant I needed a Visa to get out to Europe which should have been straight forward but with the embassy having never had to do one before meaning 3 applications + 2 different work permits and working on it since the last race it’s still not come through in time so I’ll be sitting this one out. Taking the positives that I’m still healthy and can keep training at home and I’ll see you all at Lenzerhiede. |
As Jamie is self-employed, contracted to his team as a freelancer, he was travelling as a tourist and was only allowed to spend 90 days out of 180 Visa-free. As he had been training in Europe in the pre-season and then doubling up racing the World Cups and EWS he exceeded this limit and was left trying to find other ways to gain entry.
Jamie told us, "I had applied for a French long-stay tourist visa knowing I'd need one straight after La Thuile but the first one was denied because I wasn't staying in France for long enough. I reapplied for that, showing I'd be in France for longer but that was denied so the only option was to get an internship Visa with my team manager in Germany but then the Germans changed their mind on what's required to get a work permit.
"It has ended up taking too long as the gap between races is pretty small and you need to give in your passport when you apply so you're stuck in the UK. I tried asking British Cycling and my local member of Parliament for help but neither of them could or would do anything.
"It's all pretty chaotic and with the consulate making it up as they go it's pretty hard to know what to do. In future, I'll have to limit my preseason time in Europe and go further afield and also come home more between races, which isn't great financially or environmentally but that's what it has come to."
Jamie is hoping to return to racing on the continent in early September for the Lenzerheide World Cup round.
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Did that sound stupid? Yeahhhh, people who voted for Brexit fell for that crap. Oh well.
(I’m a Brit, before anyone starts going there…..)
actual reality is the majority voted brexit. and the more sad reality is that brits who voluntarily LEFT BRITAIN are criticizing them and calling them names. now THATS sad reality.
America is a union of states (perhaps we could call them... United?) and some states take far more from the federal budget than they put in.
All states have to abide by federal regulations and judges, often dictated by other states.
Amusingly, the loudest calls to "Brexit" in the US, ie secede, are also the ones that take more than contribute, so yeah, I agree. Convincing people to be a part of a union for the benefit of all is tough.
It was the disillusioned north that voted leave in little England as well as some farmers and fishermen who voted without really knowing the ramifications of their actions (some just didnt care whatever happened), the traditional labour seats voted leave, dragging the rest of the UK out of Europe and a whole country that voted remain out too (Jamies home country).
Best just get on with it and make it the best you can
Brexit on the whole hasn't worked out amazingly well but it hasn't worked out particularly badly either despite all the whinging. The UK economy remains one of the strongest in the world and they have managed to open up well before other countries due to their autonomy on vaccine purchasing. I'm so sick of hearing from people who talk about the EU as if it is some sort of benevolent actor that only does good and seeks to protect its citizens. The EU is behind some of the dodgiest and most reckless trade agreements in history. Not to mention the actions that the ECB and EU commission took during the last recession against countries like Greece, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain and Italy. There was a recent poll in my country which asked people how much they trusted local politicians (24%) and how much they trusted EU leaders (49%). Why? They can't even name most EU leaders and they know nothing of their background.
There is f*cking no logic to it. The only difference is that people don't follow or understand what goes on in the EU parliament. EU leaders are even more unaccountable than our local politicians and come from exactly the same political bloodlines. Why on earth would they be more trustworthy? The grass is always greener I suppose....
The inability of the average person to use any sort of critical thinking is the biggest problem facing the world.
I have had discussions with friends about Brexit and it literally always comes back to them saying how stupid every single person voted for Brexit is. And how all the clever people (like themselves) voted to remain. Generally they tend to know very little about the EU themselves but they sure know that everyone who disagrees with them is really, really stupid and they like to tell them.
Then when the conversation moves on to America they will say exactly the same thing about Trump voters, Orban voters, Le Pen voters, etc, etc. They will then usually talk about how terrible all the polarisation of politics around the world is without even the faintest sense of irony.
I mad a "generalisation" based on the published figures and where the majority of the vote sat (lets rename the generalisation as a fact shall we).
The best thing about internet terms and 2021 is the use of the English language to meet your narrative rather than look accept the facts.
You can tell someone allegiance because they will bring up something from 1980 to meet their needs.
I lived through the Thatcher era, you should have trued being Scottish when things were trialled on us first before implementing the down south. The youngsters will hopefully never experience the kind of interest rates from back then, buying your first car, house etc was a nightmare with interest rates.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/12/thatcher-britain
There is something confusing about the Indy "YES" folk wanting in the EU and pointing to Brexit being a something that Scotland didn't vote for when Indy "YES" meant leaving the EU!
I have never figured that one out yet, I heard neural networks have been working on it on super computers and still cant come up with the answer either
That is true in the US, it's true in the UK and everywhere else. Its very easy to say everyone else is racist when the people making the decisions about immigration and cultural values clashing never have to deal with the consequences. The most impoverished demographic by a long distance in the UK are young white males in the old industrial towns. They are the same people who will be told they have white privilege by someone who has never left South London.
Basically they have been left behind. Of course they aren't going to do what the establishment wants them to. Why should they?
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmeduc/85/8504.htm
The red-top papers, the TV infesting shit-stains like Farrage and Morgan, and now-PM BoJo all fuelled a jingoistic rhetoric that the results of our own incompetent gov't, and the toxic hangover of our colonial past was all somehow the fault of Brussels/Strasbourg/Merkel/Macron.
All this hate for what? Less beaurocracy?! That worked out well
Psychology trumps intellect.
if he just drove he'd not have hadva problem.
Thank you for your comment.
Pr!cks like you should just shut up ya fud.
Now f3k off back into your cave
There has been so much political and scientific flip flopping over this issue it's no wonder people are fed up with listening to the so called 'experts'.
I'd say they were calling him it because he's a racist c*nt.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/covid-vaccine-decisions-brexit
"The UK could have followed the same course of vaccine action if it were an EU member
That said, none of these successes can be chalked up to Brexit. As the chief executive of the MHRA swiftly pointed out, Mr Hancock was wrong to say that the UK could approve the vaccine early because it was no longer subject to EU rules. The MHRA’s decision was taken in accordance with the relevant EU legislation, which allows member states to grant temporary authorisation for a medicinal product in response to the spread of infectious diseases (among others). [1] This legislation still applies to the UK until the end of the transition period. Any EU member state could have used the same provision of the legislation to approve the vaccine. They decided not to for political and technical reasons, not legal ones.
Similarly, the member states were in no way obliged to take part in the EU’s joint vaccine procurement scheme. The EU has very limited competences for public health under its founding treaties: it can take action only to “support, coordinate or supplement the actions of the Member States”. The EU member states in this case voluntarily decided to opt into the joint procurement scheme. If one or more of them had decided to follow the UK’s path and procure its own vaccines, no one would have stopped them."
If we werent going through brexit then we would of been part of this rollout and super slow response. But as such we decided not to be involved with teh procurement scheme which is something Labour really wanted us to do.
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Secondly, the EU did not threaten to withhold the UK's vaccine supply. Ursula von der Leyen (President of EU Commision) actually said that if any countries blocked supply of vaccines into the EU, the EU would make a reciprocal move and block vaccines leaving the EU to them. The entire 'EVIL EUROPE THREATENS TO KEEP THE JAB FOR ITSELF,' was the British press doing what the British Press often do and making things up.
I'm not saying republicans have everything figured out by a long shot, but holy shit it's irritating hearing canadians/brits/insert disconnected citizen here, talk about how ridiculous certain policies are that you have no concept of the genesis, effects, or reception. You're limited to what you're provenly fictitious news sources report. You're all the epitome of the out of touch liberal white women looking at the problems outside of your neighborhood and your answer is 'let them eat cake'.
Bullshit.
January 21: First US case confirmed the following day, Trump says at a news conference that the US has coronavirus “totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine."
January 31: Trump blocks travel from China.Trump issues an executive order blocking entry to the US from anyone who has been in China in the last 14 days. It does not apply to US residents and family members or spouses of US residents or citizens. The order becomes effective on February 2.
Two weeks after the first case appears is not "at the start of covid"
Gawd you trumphumpers just hate reality and the truth, dontcha?
"Its one person, we have it under control"....
LOL, NOPE. how does it taste to swallow that crap from him day after day after day after day after day after day after day
He wrote Trump was labelled as xenophobic when he had flights from China grounded, you say it's bullshit and go on to state Trump had flights from China grounded.
Who cares if he was labled xenophobic? If it was a threat, and it was, he did the right thing. (Are we really concerned if people are calling him names? He's the flipping Pres.)Except he did it two weeks late after claiming everything was going to be fine. Is everything fine?
The claim was ine person was labelled racist for closing down flights from China, which he was.
Check your ego.
Democrats: YOU CAN"T SHUT THE COUNTRY DOWN IT'S RACIST, COVID ISN'T THAT BAD!
Democrats a week later: WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! TRUMP DIDN'T SHUT THE BORDER DOWN SOON ENOUGH! OH GOD!!!
Lol democrats are just goldfish at this point that can't remember their arguments from the previous day and only accept what's fed into their bs tank by their handlers, aka MSM
If you look back I never claimed Trump had it under control, I just said dems called him a racist for doing something they later said he didn't do fast enough.
Nice straw man though, that's how every democrat argues nowadays, why defend your own ideas when you can attack something I never said
but hey trump bad and old racist biden good right?
Simp.
You make sense of that shit. You accept the advise of 'experts' that claim 'I am science' and 'we know what's best for you'. I'm over here looking at the laundry list of crimes against humanity Pfizer has committed hoping for the worst side effects imaginable for y'all. god bless.
Hopefully that helps.
That's such a weak complaint. The guy was president; allegedly a billionaire. Powerful man, everyone agrees. Goes on and on about how strong he is and the tremendous power of the Presidency. Brags how how he doesn't care what people say in the fake news, etc, etc. People were calling him racist years ago. But now it matters?
Are you really trying to argue Trump had a good response to covid? He lost the Presidency over it.
And my entire point is that you and every other democrat are trying to argue that he didn't handle it well, when it's clear if we followed the democrat lead we would have ignored the severity and got more people killed, and all the dems are doing are continuing Trumps playbook. Did Biden bring the vaccine to market? No, he just distributed them, unless you think the guy that can't read a teleprompter somehow has the wherewithall to materialize millions of vaccines from nothing.
I would love to hear how you would have handled anything differently, with the level of opposition and scrutiny. Please enlighten us, oh knower of proper lockdown protocols.
Seriously how has Biden donen anything different? Your argument defeats itself at every turn as soon as you look at the historical facts.
And I love how you're acting like 'so what it's just namecalling' when essentially that's what liberals complained about for years, lol. hey we have a senile old racist in the white house that is disintegrating the economy by the minute, but at least he doesn't write mean tweets! Just don't investigate his back door dealings or weird kid obsession....
My apologies. That said, what time frame would you define as "the start" of Covid19 from an American perspective?
Done.
As to the election being corrupted: more bullshit winger talking points. Not even the judges Trump appointed could take the "evidence" Rudy and the krackens came up with seriously. Not even Trump's hand picked AG would take their ludicrius claims seriously.Or does Pillow Boy have all the real evidence? Lol.
He lost because he sucked as a president and he sucked as a president because he is a broken human. One term loser. Huuuuuuuuuge.
What suspicious activity? Republican judges, republican senators, everyone except for a handful of fascist Trump supporters agree it was one of the most secure elections that has ever taken place.
so in a year with the highest mail in voting (pushed by dems bc somehow rioting was safe but voting wasn't), the union for MAIL CARRIERS AND DELIVERERS came out in support of a bipartisan candidate. can you honestly say that democrats wouldn't be having literal mental breakdowns if these same circumstances surrounded the trump election? and if we're so sure it was a legit election, why did they shut down even the probes into the case? again, glaring hypocrisy mixed with idiocy, and now half the people that supported that biden are regretting it and the other half are playing dumb like their burning house is fine lol,.
Just quit. It was stolen, and it wasnt antifa at the Capitol on 1.6.21.
Louisiana and Alabama along with a bunch of other red states near the bottom for income disparity.
worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/quality-of-life-by-state
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and a bunch of ther red states, dead last.
www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics
New York CA Florida and Texas, not exactly a blue state parade. And if you dig into those stats the situation is getting worse in the south.
But yeah a poop app for S.F.....
www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-in-the-us
b) quality of life ties directly into the per capita discussion so I think it's important to note that in states with higher overall wealth, you still have a greater number of homeless, which shows the old 'bleeding heart' dem values are obviously not matriculating into the physical world, whereas the states you mentioned are poor to begin with and there are a litany of historical reasons for that.
c) violent rapes are highest in border states, just like homelessness, interesting, almost like super weak borders during a viral pandemic and drug epidemic are a bad idea.....do dems care about unvaxxed illegals? and the bubonic plague has been found in Skid Row. And with how blue Austin is, not surprised about that one.
Don't worry Brohan. Mexico DID pay for the free wall, Your boy WAS Man of the year in Michigan. George Washington DID take over the airports during the revolutionary war. And Ivanka? Oh yeah. "She does have a very nice figure... If [Ivanka] weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."
I don't know your excuse.
cnn.com/2021/07/13/economy/june-consumer-price-inflation/index.html
fyi.com/news/media-bias/mainstream-media-ceases-coverage-of-increasing-border-crisis-to-cover-bidens-inept-leadership
it's crazy, it's like printing money, incentivizing unemployment, and leaving borders wide open in a national health and financial crisis is a bad idea or something.....but hey no mean tweets! If you don't support inflation you aint black!
www.google.com/search?q=dow+jones+10+years&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA919CA919&oq=dow+jones+10+year&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i512l8.3635j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Maybe look at the inflation and CPI rise?
you know, the data that shows how Biden is ACTUALLY doing....
cpiinflationcalculator.com/2021-cpi-and-inflation-rate-for-the-united-states
www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-inflation-rate-statistics-and-news-3306139
England beating Germany with two late goals during Euro 2000? Now that was the schadenfreude we all deserve.
btw. I was shocked when that happened, no Schadenfreude back then or now.
Really feel for you Jamie! Good luck for Lenzerheide!
Another whining snoutflake. Boo f*cking hoo.
LOL. Go cry a river of tears gammon boi.
The money saved by having free trade with Albania an Cameroon totally offsets the cost of tariffs to continue accessing our largest (and closest) export market, that the country's economy has spent 40 years growing around.
Not to mention the environmental impact of trying to trade with countries 1000s of miles away, rather than on the doorstep.
All come about because Cameron wanted to sweep up a few right wing votes from UKIP, and the lies, scaremongering and right wing propaganda managed to swing a tiny majority.
Sir, you'll need to file the paperwork to get the paperwork that will authorize you to submit the permit you'll need to file for a visa application.Government at its best, gfc....the Vogons must be pleased
Only 1/3rd of the country voted to leave.......
f*ck Brexshit
f*ck the tories
If we gained independence now we would have to apply for membership as any other country would.
I totally agree they (the UK) should have, but it's all a gaint clusterf**k. They should have done a lot of things but this isn't on the EU, it's on the UK. We should have arranged and planned for so many things but we have not.
A real shame this hasn't worked out for Jamie yet, and even more so because he was/is on top of the paperwork he needs to file. Stay healthy mate!
As soon as I saw the article I groaned at the thought of a whole bunch of people from different nations who mostly voted for populism enjoying seeing populism failing in another country.
Laughing from your ivory tower as your own country slides into authoritarian rule (Poland) or your country politicised vaccines and left millions to their fate in Afghanistan while they beat their brows about crazy right wing idiots invading your capitol buildings or sitting on 6x the number of vaccines you need to cover your population (thats you Canada) and not sharing is simply the height of hypocrisy.
Enjoying other peoples misfortune is uncilvilised. This was an article about an athlete not getting a visa. Other British riders did, because they have big teams and managers to do it, so its not necessarily a Brexit issue.
Anyone would think Pinkbike put the word brexit in the header because of the desire to get a bunch of comments on the article......
"Poslije jebanja nema kajanja."
It roughly translates to: "No regrets after f*****g."
so his own fault then - should have came back to the UK to save the days and apply for a visa sooner.
Also isn't he breaking the law using a tourist visa to and then "working".
I’m paid in the uk, pay taxes in the uk and live in the uk. I get paid for “marketing services” not to actually race specifically. If I’d been able to get a work visa I would have but I’d need to be employed by an eu company, living in Europe, paying tax there and making minimum wage for said country.
I know its a pants situation with Brexit and COVID and the restrictions that has imposed but now we no longer have the freedom of borderless travel in the EU we have hoops to jump through for what was once simple travel. Sucks as it messes with nice winter holidays for so many!
Did you not know the visa situation or suspect what it might be in advance before you went over to Europe for part of the off season?
Do you know now what to apply for and the timelines involved and the probability of success?
If you had not have travelled over winter to train in Europe would you be ok still now?
Its a shame that the team could not have helped you out with more information or advice/support. The "your on your own" message seems to be prevalent in some companies, having been on both sides of the travel support infrastructure whilst working in R&D for one of the worlds largest companies and one of the largest oil and gas service companies, the differences in company help is unbelievable across companies.
I hope that you can get something sorted for the future, its great for this area having elite riders from the area and promoting the sport, but we need you racing and getting results.
There still isn’t a visa option that works without the work of a lot of people (you have to get a eu company to give you a job basically)
If I hadn’t gone abroad to train in the off season I would be okay now but would have had very little bike time before when the races should have started.
The team went above and beyond to help me how they could but there’s only so much they can do.
Unfortunately I can see the north of Scotland losing its elite riders in the future as there’s little to no downhill in the winter so it’s hard to compete with those down south and abroad
Road riding went the same way for riders up here, then Dh for a while folk would look to move to Inners. Even that doesnt look like as good an option as Wales is with the quantity of tracks in Wales.
Shame as we have so many hills up here, just not the weather of foot fall on them to facilitate tracks everywhere. Maybe the mast does, but that is about it. Imagine an uplift service there, would be so good.
-That is the actual thought process.
Here I am wondering about all the European countries that aren’t in the European Union in the first place because they never opted in…all racist ?
Or is it all Bullshit and shouldn’t even be brought to mention in mountain biking, just go shred ffs
Everything has become political.
And no one challenges their own biases (who me? I'm not biased, I get all my facts from "insert biased sources.")
The headline is what generates clicks and is an example of don't let the truth get in the way of a good story. The guy stayed in the EU too long, was not informed, and suffered the consequence. Make a headline out of that and see how political it gets.
People who want others to quickly forget things and avoid debate typically want to do so for a reason
The rider wasn't on top of admin which he'd had plenty of time to get familiar with.
It wasn't like some magical brexit wand was just waved last week and he just got caught off guard.
I can only assume you're aware of this.
A change of regulations and the ongoing effects of that change is not anachronistic, and can't be because the term refers to something being out of chronological place and doesn't relate to whether something can be discussed. People called historians discuss the rights and wrongs of things centuries and millennia ago, that doesn't make them or anything they discuss anachronistic.
But okay, enough words have bern minced, the fact remains the headline made it poitical when it wasn't. If that escapes you then you're beyond reason.
Also that positive prop was me by mistake, so try not to get too excited and jizz your pants.
Beside...arent you internet forum know-it-all lefties suppose to warn us about the serious THREAT to the climate caused by flying to all these races? aren't you commies appouled by the whole Tour ? so much carbon ! SHAME !!!
Pretty sure climate change isn't a righty-lefty thing, it's pretty much universally acknowledged other than by the absolute fringes.
Ad hominem is a big giveaway too
"People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America."
/s
...I don't have a horse in that race so I won't comment either way, we got enough problems here at home for me to say anything about any other country's handling of things
...the only people thinking it was fraudulent are the same morons who rely on facebook as their sole source of news, think the earth is flat, think education is some how a socialist plot, and something something chemtrails (that and grifters that are trying to scam said idiots out of their money). America's problem and those morons are one in the same.
I am not going to negative prop you or hate your post, but ask for clarity on your statement.
Please provide the 5 top reasons you thing Brexit is a good thing...
These 5 reasons have to be something that is now better after Brexit than before Brexit, and provide objective evidence (wee Jimmies twitter feed doesn't count, IFS report etc does).
I look forward to your response.
you guessed wrong. I voted remain on both votes, but that has nothing to do with my question other than distract from not giving an answer.
I only asked for the top 5 reasons why Brexit is a good thing.
You have assumed the rest.
There is a difference between arguing and someone nicely asking you to put down 5 reasons.
I look forward to your response containing 5 reasons/ examples of what is better post brexit with objective evidence.
Thank you for your reply.
I am not here to argue with you, at the same time the one glaring thing wrong in what you wrote was cleaning them as facts.
Facts, they are not. They are an opinion.
Just look at how business has suffered without that membership fee. It's still paid for, just in a different way now.
Covid roll out, you are probably correct, and it did hack off our trading neighbours too.
We still await the full impact of trade arrangements, the positives and negatives on GDP, we won't know that for a decade probably.
One thing is for sure though, in the family, out the family, we still have to trade with out largest trading partners (out neighbours), maybe not as much, maybe it costs a little more one way now but less another. The bean counters will massage the figures to meet their narrative and the politicians will use those figures and wind up the masses.
You may realise now, I voted remain but accept that we voted leave and we have to make the best of it whilst it's our new norm. Whatever that comes with in the short, medium and long term.