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Tour de France: Froome apparently threatens launch ban
PARIS. The four-time winner of the Tour de France, Christopher Froome, threatens to ban the start of the Tour de France, according to a report published in the newspaper "Le Monde".
Christopher Froome Photo: (AFP)
The Tour de France, after many scandals and suppressions of doping on the lists of winners, is more than ever concerned about its reputation. Thus, according to a report from the newspaper "Le Monde", the organizer imposed Sunday a departure ban against the four-time winner of the Tour de France, Christopher Froome, the 105th edition from Saturday. Meanwhile, Team Sky has filed a protest.
The organizer and owner of the tour, Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), allegedly informed Team Sky in writing that the Briton was in a doping lawsuit that had a negative impact on the tour's image. "Le Monde" wrote and refers to sources close to the organizer.
The protest of the race team against the refusal of Froomes must be addressed Tuesday by the Arbitration Tribunal of the National Olympic Committee of France, according to "The World", and the decision will be communicated the next day . The case could also be referred to the Supreme Sports Tribunal of Lausanne
. Brit Froome, 33, was tested on the way to his victory at the Tour of Spain in September 2017 with a greatly inflated value of the drug against asthma salbutamol. According to the UCI regulations, it is not a case of doping, but an "abnormal test result" and Froome can continue to run. But he has to prove that there was no intention to manipulate it. That's what the team's lawyers are trying to get with expert advice, but the end of the case is not in sight.
Froome also started in May at the Giro d'Italia, which he also won, and then targeted the Double Giro / Tour. In France, he is aiming for his fifth victory, which would place him among the record winners. One of them, Bernard Hinault, close to the tour organizer, had recently criticized Froomes and even called for a boycott if his driver was on the starting line.
Froome is then punished for doping in the Salbutamol case, the threat of deletion of the winners lists of Vuelta (2017) and Giro (2018). The Tour de France wants to exclude this possibility for the next edition.
According to "Le Monde", the ASO refers to Article 28 of the regulation, according to which it expressly agrees with the possibility of refraining from participating or from Exclude a rider or team if the image or reputation of the ASO or the competition suffers
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