On Thursday the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that dressage team combination Jill Irving and Delacroix will not be competing for Team Canada at the Paris Olympic Games. The decision was made after it was determined near the end of the pre-Games training camp that Delacroix would not be fit to compete, and it would be in the best interest of the horse to withdraw him from competition. They will be replaced with traveling alternate Chris Von Martels and Eclips.

The fifth combination declined travel to pre-Games staging, and logistical challenges prohibit the sixth-ranked combination from getting to France from North America in time for competition, so the decision was made to move to the seventh-ranked horse-and-rider combination. That combination, Irving and Genesis, have been named traveling alternates and will join the team in Paris.

Due to personal reasons, the original team chef d’equipe and team manager, Christine Peters, will now be replaced by Olympian Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu, who will assume the roles and support Team Canada riders on the ground.