LONDON (AP) — Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome said a “wealth of information” can prove his innocence after failing a doping test.
The Team Sky rider has to explain to the International Cycling Union why a urine sample provided at the Vuelta a España in September showed a concentration of the asthma drug salbutamol that was twice the permitted level.
Froome, a two-time Olympic time trial bronze medalist, dismissed any suggestion he is a cheat by saying “I knew I was being tested.”
In an interview by broadcaster Sky, Froome said he followed “protocol and I have not overstepped any boundaries,” something that can be proved by “a wealth of information from within the team.