Former Olympic biathlete champion Myriam Bédard was ordered Monday to stand trial on a charge of violating a court order that set her daughter's joint custody conditions.

It took one day of preliminary testimony for Quebec Superior Court Justice Pierre Verdon to determine there was enough evidence for Bédard to stand trial.

Bédard and her husband Nima Mazhari travelled to the United States with Bédard's daughter from a previous marriage in October 2006.

The girl's father, Jean Paquet, contacted police some time later, after he became worried his daughter and her mother weren't going to return to Quebec City, he told the court on Monday.

He found out his daughter was in Washington, D.C., only when he called her on the family's cellphone. Paquet had a few brief telephone conversations with Bédard but she wouldn't say when they were coming back to Canada, he testified.

Bédard was arrested on Dec. 22 after an international warrant for parental child abduction. She spent two weeks in a United States jail before she was brought back to Canada under RCMP escort and released on bail.

The Crown attorney sought a publication ban on testimony at the preliminary hearing but the judge rejected the request, ruling only that Bédard's daughter's name and telephone number cannot be published.

Bédard will be back in court on June 11 when a date for her trial will be set.