Canada's Dylan Bibic, left, competes in the Men's Omnium temp race during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on Thursday, August 8, 2024.

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. His performances over the past two years earned Canada its berth in the omnium event at the world championships, but he was still passed over for the international competition 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 2

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