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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Chris Froome faces 12-month ban after failed drug tests



Chris Froome is facing a potential ban and could be stripped of his Vuelta a Espana title after an 'adverse analytical finding' appeared in a drugs test during the race in September.

In what amounts to another major doping controversy for Team Sky, the team released a statement earlier today confirming that the four-times Tour de France champion had double the permitted limit of the asthma drug, salbutamol, in his system after a stage of the three-week Spanish race.

It leaves Froome fighting for his reputation when Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi was given a 12-month suspension for excessive levels of salbutamol in 2007. 

Petacchi was stripped of his five stage victories at that year’s Giro D’Italia and Froome could yet lose one half of what was a historic grand Tour double earlier this year.

Under World Anti-Doping Agency rules riders are allowed up to 1,000 nanograms per millilitre of the asthma drug but Froome, who is currently on a training camp in Mallorca, was found to have 2000. Sky have now enlisted a team of lawyers and medical experts in a bid to clear their star rider’s name.


Chris Froome's Career Stats

  • Winner of Tour de France - (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)
  • Olympic Games time trial - (2012 bronze, 2016 bronze)
  • Vuelta a Espana - (2017)
  • Criterium du Dauphine - (2013, 2015, 2016) 
  • Tour de Romandie - (2013, 2014)

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