Chris Froome says failed drugs test `damaging´ but he followed protocol
(The Guardian Sports News)

o ` I know that I have fundamentally followed the protocol,´ says Froomeo Tony Martin `angry´ Froome competed in world championshipsChris Froome has admitted that failing a drugs test at this year´s Vuelta a España has been `damaging` to his reputation - but has again insisted that he did not overstep any boundaries.The four-time Tour de France winner also nodded in agreement when it was put to him that the world only knew about his adverse analytical finding on 7 September because of investigative work carried about by two newspapers, the Guardian and Le Monde - suggesting that both Team Sky, British Cycling and cycling´s governing body, the UCI, were planning to keep the news secret. Continue reading...