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Thing is I've been hugely critical of athletes that have missed tests in the past, like Bauge (and Rio) so it's very difficult to give Lizzie the benefit of the doubt. I realise making sure you are available for an hour a day for the entire fucking year isn't easy but at the same time it's fucking an essential part of your professional career. I haven't looked at Twitter but I can almost imagine the rejoicing in the street that the poster girl for British cycling and current World Champ has been exposed so badly in this way. It's now a taint on her, going to be difficult to watch the race and cheer her on.
Mind you it's going to be difficult to watch any of the Olympics quite frankly, what a mess.
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After looking at UKADs reports from April 2015 to April 2016, any athlete having 2 whereabouts failures is pretty unusual. In this period UKAD did 7771 tests (all sports) over 12 months and only had 27 confirmed whereabouts failures. If you look at how many were cycling specific, BCF and UCI out of competition tests, then the odds look even worse for Armitstead getting 2 confirmed whereabouts failures, BCF only did 331 out of competition tests and UCI only 4.
This is really interesting, thanks.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, that means over 10% of all Ukad - for all sports - missed tests in that period were her. That's staggering.
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I'm a massive fan of Armistead. Didn't really understand what 2 confirmed UKAD whereabouts failures meant, so did some research..
After looking at UKADs reports from April 2015 to April 2016, any athlete having 2 whereabouts failures is pretty unusual. In this period UKAD did 7771 tests (all sports) over 12 months and only had 27 confirmed whereabouts failures. If you look at how many were cycling specific, BCF and UCI out of competition tests, then the odds look even worse for Armitstead getting 2 confirmed whereabouts failures, BCF only did 331 out of competition tests and UCI only 4.
I love watching Armitstead race and have followed her career closely. It's brilliant how candidly she talks about her solo training and finding her self belief. Watching Armitstead win the World Champs was one of the best moments ever. I don't think she's ever doped and I don't think she ever would. I'd love her to win a gold at Rio, I really hope I'm not being naive.
Anyone whose interested all.UKAD reports can be downloaded here:
http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/quarterly-reports-on-rule-violations