Organizers of the British National Omnium Championship barred a transgender cyclist from competing in its women’s race Saturday.

The Union Cycliste Internationale announced Wednesday that Emily Bridges, a biological man who began identifying as a woman in 2020, was ineligible to compete. The UCI’s national championship would have been Bridges’s first women’s race.

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