Briton Yates not suspended after failing drug test - UCI


  • Cycling
  • Sunday, 01 May 2016

Simon Yates (L) rides to his gold medal during the men's points race at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk February 22, 2013. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

LONDON (Reuters) - Rider Simon Yates, a strong contender to make Britain's Olympic cycling team, will not be provisionally suspended after failing a drugs test, the sport's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), said on Friday.

Yates, one of the brightest prospects in British cycling, failed the test due to an "administrative error" over the use of an asthma inhaler, his team Orica-GreenEDGE said.

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