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Armitstead cleared for Olympics in murky missed doping test case
- Updated: August 2, 2016
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MILAN (VN) — World champion Lizzie Armitstead is ready to lead the British road team in the Olympics this Sunday after being cleared of an anti-doping violation due to three missed doping controls.
The 27-year-old Boels – Dolmans cyclist had been temporarily and quietly suspended pending a disciplinary hearing. She faced a four-year suspension for missing three out-of-competition controls in 12 months, but was cleared because she and the British Cycling showed the first one was due to the tester’s mistake.
Monday night, the Daily Mail reported that she won a case with sport’s high court, CAS, which freed her to compete in upcoming events including the 141-kilometer Olympic road race on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro.
Armitstead quit the Giro Rosa early, citing illness, and missed La Course in Paris on July 24. It is now known that she had been serving a temporary suspension since July 11. In a time of information overload, it surprised some critics that cycling’s governing body, the UCI, did not list the suspension as it normally does with others on its webpage for …
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