Chris Froome has revealed that he missed an out-of-competition doping control earlier this year during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. The Sky rider said that the missed test took place while on a short break in Italy but did not divulge the precise date of the incident.
Subsequent to the conference call, Froome told The Sun newspaper that he had missed one other out-of-competition doping control during his career, five years previously. The admission follows the recent controversy surrounding British runner Mo Farah, who missed two doping controls in a year before the London 2012 Olympic Games.
"Yes, I have missed a drugs test," Froome said. "Earlier this year I had a couple of recovery days, and I took my wife down to quite an exclusive hotel down in Italy. The first morning we were down there, the authorities turned up at seven o'clock in the morning and the hotel staff actually didn't give them access to our room.
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"They also refused to let them call up to the room. So when we came down for breakfast they basically just said to us 'Oh, the anti-doping guys were here to test you this morning, but it's our policy not to let anyone disturb our clients.'"
According to the WADA code, three missed doping controls or failures to provide accurate whereabouts information within a 12-month period (down from the old 18-month window) are punishable with a ban of between one and two years. Riders who have served bans after registering three strikes on the whereabouts system include Yoann Offredo, who missed the 2012 season when he was handed a one-year ban, Alex Rasmussen, who was given an 18-month suspension, and Gregory Baugé, who was stripped of his 2011 world sprint title.
Froome said that he had lodged an appeal to have the missed test stricken from his record, though his comments suggested that it had not proved successful.
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