Lizzie Armitstead met with UK Anti-Doping and British Cycling last December in order to discuss how she could avoid registering a third strike in the anti-doping whereabouts system in the build-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics.
The Briton revealed the meeting in a two-page statement issued on Wednesday in response to the news that she had been provisionally suspended - and then cleared - in July for registering three missed tests or whereabouts filing failures in the space of twelve months. Armitstead successfully appealed her ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport last month and will line out as favourite for gold in Sunday’s Olympic Games road race.
“In December 2015, I met with UKAD and British Cycling to discuss a support plan in order to avoid a third potential ‘strike’,” Armitstead wrote.
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“Simon Thornton from British Cycling was put in place to check my whereabouts on a bi-weekly basis. We had regular contact and he would help me with any problems, effectively he was a fail-safe mechanism. Since meeting with UKAD my whereabouts updates have been as detailed and specific as they can possibly be. Going as far as I can in describing my locations to avoid any further issues.
“Unfortunately, this system fell apart on the June 9 when UKAD tried to test me in my hour slot and I was not where I had stated I would be.”
Armitstead said that she had been unaware that Thornton had by then left British Cycling, where he worked as compliance officer, for a new role as equality and diversity advisor at Liverpool FC, and blamed this oversight for her third strike.
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