VANCOUVER — An arbitrator has made the rare decision to overturn a national sports organization’s team selection, placing Dylan Bibic on Canada’s team for the upcoming UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Bibic, from Mississauga, Ont., is ranked seventh in the world in men’s track endurance cycling and earned Canada’s berth at the world championships in the omnium event, but was passed over for the world championships in Santiago, Chile.
The 22-year-old was excluded after Cycling Canada changed the criteria for competing in the omnium — and only the omnium — by eliminating 2024 results from consideration.
Bibic filed a complaint with the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada on Aug. 12.
Because the track cycling world championships begin on Oct. 22, arbitrator Praveen Sandhu found that Cycling Canada must include Bibic on its team rather than go through another selection process.
The arbitrator found that Cycling Canada did not establish a clear line of reasoning in its submissions and that even if it was acting in good faith, it failed in its “duty to explain” how it was acting in good faith.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 6, 2025.
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