T&T's medal prospect at the up­com­ing Pan Amer­i­can Games in San­ti­a­go, Chile just got more dif­fi­cult fol­low­ing the with­draw­al of pro­fes­sion­al cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell.

The 2019 Pan Am Games dou­ble sil­ver medal­list was one of six lo­cal cy­clists named in the 64-mem­ber con­tin­gent to Chile.

How­ev­er, in a post on her Face­book page on Mon­day, Camp­bell an­nounced she has "been strug­gling with a pro­longed ill­ness (af­ter) post the Ital­ian races a few weeks ago. Un­for­tu­nate­ly due to this de­ci­sion, I was made to with­draw from the com­pe­ti­tion."

The 26-year-old added: "I was re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to com­pet­ing in the red, white and black at the up­com­ing Pan Amer­i­can Games in San­ti­a­go Chile."

At the 2019 Pan Am Games in Li­ma, Pe­ru, the Debe High grad­u­ate won sil­ver medals in the Road Race in 24:50.20 and missed out on gold by one sec­ond in the Time Tri­als three days lat­er, cross­ing the time 2:18.50. Camp­bell's medals were the first by a lo­cal fe­male at the hemi­spher­ic meet.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Rowe­na Williams, when con­tact­ed by Guardian Me­dia, con­firmed Camp­bell's with­draw­al and added she is sad­dened by the news.

She said: "Te­niel's health is more im­por­tant than her rac­ing."

T&T's cy­cling medal hopes now rest on the ped­als of world record-hold­er Nicholas Paul, who is the de­fend­ing Match Sprint cham­pi­on. Camp­bell's broth­er Ak­il, Kwe­si Browne, Alexi Cos­ta-Ramirez and Zion Puli­do are the oth­er na­tion­al cy­clists head­ing to San­ti­a­go.