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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome (Team Sky) risks being stripped of his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España title due to his 16♏8澳洲5最新开奖结果:adverse analytical fi๊nding for salbutamol following stage 18 of this year's race, but in a statement on Wednesday mo♉rning, ꧃the Vuelta organisation said that it had yet to receive formal notification of the matter.

Froome sealed a Tour de France-Vuelta a España dou🦄ble in September after leading the race for 18 of its 21 stages. The Briton surprisingly emerged as a belated Grand Tour contender by placing second at the Vuelta in 2011, and went on to place on the podium in 20෴14 and 2016 before landing victory this year.

"Regarding today's news about Christopher Froome's unfavourable test result during La Vuelta 2017, Unipublic, the organiser of La Vuelta, wishes to communicate that it will await the UCI's official conclusions," Unipublic said in a statement issued on Wednesday mﷺorning.

"The regulatory entity has launched an investiga🦄tion and the position of La Vuelta's organiser is one of extreme caution, as itꦉ hopes for this issue to be resolved as quickly as possible."

Froome returned an adverse analytical finding for twice the permissible do🎃se of salbutamol on September 7 following stage 18 to Alto de Santo Toribio de Liébana, where he put 21 seconds on his closest rival Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida).

Froome a🔯nd Team Sky was notified of the finding on September 20, the day he finished third in the elite men's time trial at the UCI World Championships in Bergen. The result was 🍬later confirmed by analysis of the B-Sample.

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News of Froome's adverse analytical finding was broken by  and newspapers early on Wednesday morning, and later confirmed by both the UCI and Team Sky. In a press release the WorldTour team has said they are committed to es🌺tablishing the factꦕs and understanding what has happened.

Salbutamol is classed as a sꦛpecifi💦c substance and an adverse analytical finding does not result in a mandatory provisional suspension, though Froome will face a sanction if he is unable to provide a sufficient explanation for the elevated levels of salbutamol in his anti-doping sample.

Nibali, who placed s༺econd overall💝 in Madrid, would be awarded Vuelta victory if Froome were to be stripped of the title.

Froome announced two weeks ago that he would ride the Giro d'Italia in 2018, although his participation is at risk if he 🎐cannot provide an explanation for the elevated levels of salbutamol in his anti-doping sample from the Vuelta.

Diego Ulissi aꦏnd Alexandre Pliuschin were each given nine-month suspensions following positive tests for salbutamol in 2014.

Delgado's reaction

Speaking to Radio Marca, two-time Vuelta winner Pedro Delꦛgado said it would be sad if Froome was stripped of his Vuelta vicꦑtory.

Delgado returned a positive test for probenecid en route to his🐻 1988 Tour de France victory, but escaped sanction as the substance was not on the UCI banned list at the time, even though it was prohi💃bited by the International Olympic Committee.

"It's a product that's used to treat asthma and it's known that Chris Froome has this condition and has the authorisation to use this substance," Delgado said. "It's very sad if he's going to lose the Vuelta, although I don't think it will♍ affect the season to come."