She had originally been allowed to register.

Finally, Emily Bridges will not be able to participate in the British national omnium championships on Saturday in Derby.

The transgender cyclist was declared ineligible on Wednesday by the International Cycling Union (UCI).

British Cycling, in charge of the national championships, revealed in a statement, as it first allowed Bridges to line up as part of its transgender and non-binary participation policy.

British trans rider Emily Bridges BLOCKED from competing in this weekend's National Omnium Championships by UCI |

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— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) March 30, 2022


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According to information from the British newspaper

The Guardian

, Emily Bridges, who started hormone treatment last year, must wait until her UCI registration as a male rider expires before she can compete as a woman.

British Cycling's regulations, updated in January 2022, meanwhile require riders to demonstrate low testosterone levels for twelve months prior to competition.

Lively controversy

The initial decision to allow Bridges to compete this weekend had sparked controversy, with fellow sportswomen threatening to boycott the race.

"It wouldn't have been fair to ask Laura Kenny [five-time Olympic track champion] and the other runners that Bridges would have faced to have to race against a rival with the advantages of a biological male", said for his part the ex-British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies in The Times on Thursday, noting that “no amount of testosterone reduction could alleviate this”.

About ten days ago, the president of World Athletics Sebastian Coe had expressed in the same newspaper his fear of seeing women's sport weakened by the participation of transgender sportswomen.

“We really have to trust the science as much as possible,” said Coe, who “there is no doubt that [the level of] testosterone is the key determinant of performance”.

Her statement echoed the performance achieved a few days earlier by Lia Thomas, the first transgender swimmer to win a university title, with more than a second ahead of her first pursuer.

This victory had created a strong controversy in the United States.

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