Chris Froome (Team Sky) has hired one of the world’s most prominent sports lawyers as he bids to avoid sanction after returning an adverse analytical finding for salbutamol during the Vuelta a España in September.
According to the Daily Mail and the Times, Froome has appointed London-based lawyer Mike Morgan, whose list of previous clients in cycling include Lizzie Deignan, Sergio Henao, Alberto Contador and Johan Bruyneel. Morgan was named sports lawyer of the year at the 2017 Who’s Who Legal Awards.
Morgan’s firm, Morgan Sports Law, has also represented tennis players Maria Sharapova and Marin Cilic, athlete Veronica Campbell-Brown and footballer Mamadou Sakho in anti-doping proceedings. Other clients include the former Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam, who was banned for life by the FIFA ethics committee in 2011.
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Morgan represented Lizzie Deignan at the Court of Arbitration for Sport ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, and succeeded in having one of her whereabouts violations overturned to allow her to compete in the Games.
Morgan Sports Law successfully defended Froome’s teammate Sergio Henao during his biological passport case against the UCI in 2016, and the firm also represented Daryl Impey when he was cleared of wrongdoing after testing positive for probenecid in 2014.
Mike Morgan was Johan Bruyneel’s legal counsel before the American Arbitration Association in 2013, but he failed to prevent Lance Armstrong’s former manager from receiving a 10-year ban for his part in the systematic doping programme in place on the US Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams.
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