Chris Froome is facing a potential ban and
could be stripped of his Vuelta a Espana title after an 'adverse
analytical finding' appeared in a drugs test during the race in
September.
In what amounts to another
major doping controversy for Team Sky, the team released a statement
earlier today confirming that the four-times Tour de France champion had
double the permitted limit of the asthma drug, salbutamol, in his
system after a stage of the three-week Spanish race.
It
leaves Froome fighting for his reputation when Italian cyclist
Alessandro Petacchi was given a 12-month suspension for excessive levels
of salbutamol in 2007.
Petacchi was
stripped of his five stage victories at that year’s Giro D’Italia and
Froome could yet lose one half of what was a historic grand Tour double
earlier this year.
Under World Anti-Doping Agency rules riders are allowed up to 1,000
nanograms per millilitre of the asthma drug but Froome, who is currently
on a training camp in Mallorca, was found to have 2000. Sky have now
enlisted a team of lawyers and medical experts in a bid to clear their
star rider’s name.
Chris Froome's Career Stats
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