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Armitstead cleared for Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO: British world road race champion Lizzie Armitstead was cleared on Monday to ride in the Olympics after winning a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
Updated on: Aug 6, 2016, 24:37:46 IST
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RIO DE JANEIRO: British world road race champion Lizzie Armitstead was cleared on Monday to ride in the Olympics after winning a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) appeal against a ban for missing three doping tests. The 27-year-old, who won the silver medal in the Olympic road race in London four years ago and who will be among the favourites again in Rio, was facing an automatic ban under the “whereabouts system” after three missed tests within a year.
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