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UCI President David Lappartient has said that Team Sky should suspend 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome while the investigation into his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:adverse anꦇalytical finding for salbutamol is on-going. Lappartient said that pulling Froome from racing was nothing to do with whether he was guilty or not but that it would make the process𝓡 simpler.

"Team Sky should suspend Froome," Lappartient told . “However, it is not up to me to inte⛄rfere. Without g♏oing into the question of guilt, it would be simpler for everyone.

"It's up to [Dave] Brailsford to take his respon𒅌sibilities. Apart from that, I think that it is what the other riders wish.🌟 They're fed up with the general image."

Lappartient is just four months into his four-year term as UCI president after resoundingly beating his predecessor Brian Cookson in a vote held at the UCI Road World Championships in Bergen last September. The Frenchman said that he was informed of the ongoing case just an hour after he won the vote, a day after Fr🎀oome was notified of the findings on September 20.

Lappartient said that the case was bad for the general image of cycling. "Whether the test result is abnormal or not, either naturally or fraudulently, it's awful: in the eyes of the wider public he's already gui🐻lty."

Froome returned an adverse analytical finding for 2,000mg/ml of the asthma medication salbutamol during last year's Vuelta a España. Salbutamol can be ꧃taken without a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) but has an upper limit of 1,000ng/ml. As it is a specified 𒐪substance rather than a banned substance, it does not carry an automatic suspension and riders can continue to race while the investigation is on-going. Teams can temporarily suspend their riders, however, as happened in the case of Diego Ulissi in 2014.

Lappartient, who has been in Australia for the 2018 Oceania Cycling Confederation (OCC) Annual General Meeting, recently told the Swiss publication Neue Zürcher Zeitung that it was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:important to protect th🌃e rights of riders. He said that, ꦗdespite accusations from some, there was no special treatment for Froome but admitted that it would be easier if he didn't race whiౠle he was under investigation.

Froome must now demonstrate that he did not exceed 🤪the permitted dosage of salbutamol, despite the levels found in his sample. To do so, Froome and his legal team will need to supply the UCI with supporting documentation and Froome will have to undergo a series of lab tests. It is an intricate process, which took eight months for Ulissi - who was subsequently banned - and Lappartient says that it could take as long as a year to resolve, if not more.

"It's goi꧑ng to be a judicial ▨battle that will last a long time. This affair won't be sorted out in two minutes, it could last at least a year," he said.

Froome is set to ride the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France this season, although he has not yet announced his progr🍎amme prior to these races.