The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) has se­lect­ed Te­niel Camp­bell for the women’s Points Race at the 2026 TIS­SOT UCI Track World Cham­pi­onships sched­uled for Shang­hai, Chi­na, from Oc­to­ber 14 to 18, re­vers­ing its ear­li­er de­ci­sion to se­lect com­pa­tri­ot Alexi Cos­ta-Ramirez.

In a let­ter dat­ed Oc­to­ber 2 sent by At­tor­ney-at-Law Zel­i­ca Haynes-Soo Hon of the CPFL Law Firm on be­half of the T&TCF to Dr Emir Crowne of New City Cham­bers, on be­half of Alexi Ramirez-Cos­ta, the T&TCF ac­knowl­edged that its ini­tial se­lec­tion was based on an in­cor­rect un­der­stand­ing of how T&T’s places at the cham­pi­onships had been al­lo­cat­ed.

The Rac­ing Com­mit­tee had first be­lieved the places were se­cured through the na­tion’s rank­ing. It lat­er de­ter­mined that they were based on Camp­bell’s in­di­vid­ual rank­ing.

The orig­i­nal se­lec­tion, com­mu­ni­cat­ed on Sep­tem­ber 11, as­signed Cos­ta-Ramirez to the Elim­i­na­tion and Points Race events, while Camp­bell was se­lect­ed for the Scratch Race and Om­ni­um. The Points Race se­lec­tion was sub­se­quent­ly chal­lenged, and the Fed­er­a­tion said it re­viewed the mat­ter be­fore mak­ing a re­vised de­ci­sion on Oc­to­ber 1.

Cit­ing clause TTCF.6.003(2) of its se­lec­tion pol­i­cy, the Com­mit­tee said Camp­bell was the on­ly el­i­gi­ble cy­clist for the Points Race. Camp­bell has con­firmed that she is will­ing and able to com­pete in the event.

The Fed­er­a­tion al­so said Camp­bell de­clined to par­tic­i­pate in the Elim­i­na­tion, leav­ing Cos­ta-Ramirez se­lect­ed for that event. It apol­o­gised to Cos­ta-Ramirez for the in­con­ve­nience caused and wished her suc­cess.

The let­ter de­scribed the ini­tial de­ci­sion as er­ro­neous and in­con­sis­tent with the Fed­er­a­tion’s se­lec­tion pol­i­cy. It said the er­ror was un­in­ten­tion­al and arose from the way the al­lo­ca­tion of places had been com­mu­ni­cat­ed. The TTCF re­served its rights should the mat­ter pro­ceed to ar­bi­tra­tion or lit­i­ga­tion.

The sit­u­a­tion arose af­ter TTCF pres­i­dent Rowe­na Williams re­quest­ed an ad­di­tion­al 24-hour pe­ri­od to con­sid­er a new pro­pos­al put for­ward by Camp­bell and her rep­re­sen­ta­tives at a vir­tu­al meet­ing on Sep­tem­ber 30, re­quest­ing to be al­lowed to com­pete in at least three events, rather than her ini­tial de­mand to par­tic­i­pate in all four.

Ini­tial­ly, the T&TCF had is­sued a let­ter to the Heat­wave Cy­cling Club in­form­ing it that its cy­clist Alexi Cos­ta-Ramirez was se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent the coun­try in the elim­i­na­tion and the points race, along with Camp­bell, who would com­pete in the om­ni­um event, which is the lone Olympic qual­i­fy­ing event at the Cham­pi­onships, and the scratch race.

The om­ni­um event com­pris­es four sep­a­rate races—a scratch race, an elim­i­na­tion, a tem­po race, and a points race.

How­ev­er, up­on re­ceiv­ing a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter from Camp­bell via her rep­re­sen­ta­tives, ob­ject­ing to hav­ing to split the events half and half, all par­ties agreed to meet on Wednes­day last to find a res­o­lu­tion.

Wednes­day’s meet­ing con­sist­ed of Camp­bell and her at­tor­ney, Kei­th Scot­land SC; rac­ing com­mit­tee chair­man Gre­go­ry Dan­drade; rac­ing sec­re­tary Maria Lopez; as­sis­tant sec­re­tary Cheryl Lea­cock; Cos­ta-Ramirez; her fa­ther and for­mer na­tion­al cy­clist Guy Cos­ta; and Williams, who is cur­rent­ly in Switzer­land for a UCI meet­ing.

The TTCF then met vir­tu­al­ly again a day lat­er to con­sid­er Camp­bell’s new re­quest.

Both rid­ers earned qual­i­fy­ing berths from suc­cess­ful par­tic­i­pa­tion at the UCI Na­tions Cups. Cos­ta-Ramirez ac­cu­mu­lat­ed the re­quired points at the first Na­tions Cup leg in Perth, Aus­tralia, from March 6-8 to qual­i­fy for the World Cham­pi­onships.

No rid­er from T&T made it to the sec­ond leg in Hong Kong, Chi­na, from April 17 to 19, while Guardian Me­dia Sport learned that Camp­bell was hand­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty by Cos­ta-Ramirez to com­pete at the third and fi­nal event in Malaysia from April 24 to 26 to al­low Camp­bell to ac­cu­mu­late in­di­vid­ual World Cham­pi­onships qual­i­fi­ca­tion points.

How­ev­er, with the is­sue now re­solved, Camp­bell, who re­cent­ly com­pet­ed at the UCI 2026 Road World Cham­pi­onships in Mon­tre­al, Cana­da, from Sep­tem­ber 20 to 27, plac­ing 25th in the in­di­vid­ual time tri­al, and Cos­ta-Ramirez will both still com­pete at the World Cham­pi­onships in Chi­na, with the for­mer con­test­ing three of the four events.