In a blog on her website, retired British cyclist Nicole Cooke commented on Lizzie Armitstead's recent hearing through the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Armitstead, the current world champion and favourite to win the gold medal at the Rio Olympic Games this weekend, won an appeal after being provisionally suspended for missing three anti-doping tests with in one year.
Armitstead was provisionally suspended on July 11 and was facing a four-year ban for the missed tests from UK Anti-Doping. She missed anti-doping out-of-cometition tests in August and October last year, and in June. At a CAS hearing on July 21, however, she succeeded in having the first of the three missed tests expunged from her record and she was cleared to compete in Rio.
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Although it is still consulting with lawyers, UKAD has since responded to the decision saying that it "respects" the final outcome. The case has left the cycling community with more questions than answers, however.
Cooke won a gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and then worked to help compatriot Armitstead secure the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
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