The UCI and British Cycling are preventing transgender athlete Emily Bridges from competing at this weekend’s National Omnium Championships despite her providing medical evidence that she has met the current specified limits for testosterone for the required 12-month period. In a statement issued on Friday, Bridges, who was part of British Cycling’s Senior Academy programme in 2019 as a male racer and came out as transgender in 2020, says that despite British Cycling’s statement that it was the UCI who deemed her ineligible to race, “I still have little clarity around their finding of my ineligibility under their regulations.”

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