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UCI President David Lappartient Calls on Team Sky to Suspend Chris Froome

UCI President David Lappartient is calling on Team Sky to suspend Chris Froome as a result of his adverse test for the closely monitored asthma drug salbutamol. 

“Sky should suspend Froome,” Lappartient told French regional newspaper Le Telegramme. “Now, it’s not up to me to interfere. Without wishing to comment on the rider’s guilt, it would be easier for everyone [were Sky to suspend him]. It’s up to [Sky team manager Dave] Brailsford to take his responsibilities. Quite apart from that, I think that’s what the other riders want. They’re fed up with the general image.”

The report further states, that regardless of Froome’s innocence or guilt, Lappartient feels until such time as he is either exonerated or found to have broken the rules, fans will not give him the benefit of the doubt.

“Whether the test result is abnormal or not, either naturally or fraudulently, it’s awful: in the eyes of the wider public he’s already guilty,” he stated. 

“We’re in the hands of the experts. It’s up to Froome to demonstrate the reasons for such a high level of salbutamol, it’s up to him to prove his innocence.”

Regardless, Lappartient believes the affair will last a long time with the possibility of Froome appealing any eventual sanction to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

“It’s going to be a judicial battle that will last a long time.”

“This affair won’t be sorted out in two minutes, it could last at least a year.”

Some of Froome’s main rivals have hit out at cycling authorities for failing to ban the reigning Tour and Vuelta a Espana champion, who tested for elevated levels of the asthma medication salbutamol during his victory in Spain’s Grand Tour last September.

French rider Romain Bardet described cycling as “a laughing stock” earlier this week over the affair.

World time-trial champion Tom Dumoulin previously insisted his team, Sunweb would have suspended him for a similar offence.

Bardet even suggested that if Sky doesn’t suspend Froome, the rider himself should voluntarily “pull out” from racing “while waiting for the authorities to decide”.

Lappartient said he understood Bardet’s feelings, adding, “he’s saying out loud what everyone’s thinking under their breath.”

Lappartient said he would look into the issue of therapeutic use exemptions (TUE), which many believe have been abused to allow riders to get an unfair advantage from legally taking banned substances.

Lappartient also said he wanted to put in place “independent medical observation” that would prevent riders from competing if they’ve applied for and been granted a TUE.

“That would allow us to solve the corticosteroids problem,” he added.

In 2016 the Russian hacking group Fancy Bears revealed that former Team Sky leader Bradley Wiggins, the first British rider to win the Tour in 2012, had received three TUEs during his career at crucial moments: before the Tour in 2011 and 2012 and the Giro d’Italia in 2013.

Wiggins claims he needed to take the corticosteroid triamcinolone to treat allergies but some ex-cyclists have spoken out against that claiming it would have given him a significant boost in performance. 

 

 

 

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