Rio Olympics: Britain cycling ace Armitstead cleared to race

London: Great Britain’s world cycling road race champion Lizzie Armitstead has been cleared to race at the Olympics after winning an appeal on Monday against an anti-doping rule violation.

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) provisionally suspended Armitstead on July 11 for failures relating to her whereabouts which led to her missing three drugs tests within a 12-month period. But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said procedures were not followed correctly for one of the tests and upheld the appeal.

“I have always been and will always be a clean athlete and have been vocal in my anti-doping stance throughout my career,” Armitstead said in a statement.