Lizzie Armitstead's team Boels-Dolmans has released a statement in support of their world champion who was recently embroiled in controversy regarding three missed tests or filing errors within 12 months in her World Anti-Doping Agency whereabouts file.
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) provisionally suspended Armitstead after the three errors in her file, which were made on August 20 and October 5 last year, and on June 9. However, Armitstead brought her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) where she successfully had the first error removed, effectively allowing her to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.
"Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team is relieved with the outcome of the court case brought by Lizzie Armitstead to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding her missed out of competition tests," the team statement read.
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"The Dutch-registered squad fully supports Armitstead's position and trusts completely that there was no intentional wrongdoing on Armitstead's part."
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One of the many questions surrounding Armitstead's whereabouts case was the lack of transparency. Armitstead was provisionally banned on July 11 by UKAD and reinstated by CAS, following its final decision to remove one of the whereabouts strikes, on July 21. However, the pubic was not made aware of the provisional suspension until the Daily Mail broke the story on Monday.
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