An arbitrator has issued a rare ruling compelling Cycling Canada to include Mississauga, Ont.s\u2019 Dylan Bibic on national team for the omnium in the upcoming UCI track world championships in Santiago, Chile. The decision overturns the previous team selection that had excluded Bibic from the omnium.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old former world champion is ranked seventh globally in men\u2019s endurance.<\/p>\n
Bibic\u2019s palmar\u00e8s<\/p>\n
Bibic secured Canada\u2019s berth in the omnium event at the world championships through his individual points and ranking. Among his achievements in 2024: he won the UCI Champions League<\/a> and got a bronze medal at the worlds.<\/p>\n According to the CBC<\/a>, Cycling Canada altered its selection criteria in December 2024. The new criteria eliminated 2024 track results from consideration for the omnium event.<\/p>\n Why did Magdeleine Valli\u00e8res pay her own way to Rwanda?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n His spot was instead given to Toronto\u2019s Christ Ernst for the omnium. Bibic then filed a complaint with the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) on Aug. 12. The complaint said that his exclusion was influenced by a previous safe-sport complaint he had filed against an unnamed person involved in the selection process.<\/p>\n Arbitrator\u2019s decision<\/p>\n In her decision, Arbitrator Praveen Sandhu found that Cycling Canada had failed to establish a clear line of reasoning for its actions. The federation had also not produced meeting minutes or notes to justify the differential treatment of the omnium event. Sandhu said<\/a> that it\u2019s \u201crare for an athlete to have direct evidence of personal bias\u201d but the accumulation of circumstantial evidence in this case made the perception reasonable. She concluded that the situation was urgent given the upcoming event. That compelled her to make the selection herself rather than allowing another selection process, given the timeline.<\/p>\n \u201cArbitrators are generally reluctant to make selection decisions themselves, but will do so if the situation is urgent or if fairness is a concern,\u201d Bibic\u2019s legal representatives, Dr. Emir Crowne and Amanda Fowler said in a statement. \u201cHaving found bias in an already urgent appeal, it was unsurprising that the arbitrator felt compelled to make the selection herself.\u201d<\/p>\n His legal team said that while the ruling was expected, it highlighted the importance of sending the best athletes to international competitions.<\/p>\n \u201cIt still boggles the mind why or how a national sport organization would select an athlete ranked 135th over one ranked seventh in the world, and then go to great lengths to justify that selection,\u201d they wrote<\/a>. \u201cCanada should be sending their best. It\u2019s just that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arbitrator has issued a rare ruling compelling Cycling Canada to include Mississauga, Ont.s\u2019 Dylan Bibic on national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-195328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}