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Armitstead: ‘It was a victory to be here’
- Updated: August 7, 2016
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — Great Britain’s Lizzie Armitstead defended her participation at the Olympics on Sunday despite missing drug tests, saying it was a victory for her.
The 27-year-old Briton rolled to a fifth-place finish in the women’s road race around Rio, but the fact that she made the start at all was controversial.
Armitstead missed three drug tests over a 12-month period, which normally would have seen her disqualified from the Games. UK Anti-Doping provisionally banned her, but Armitstead appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and won.
Asked if she should have raced, Armitstead …
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