British world road race champion Lizzie Armitstead was cleared on Monday to ride in the Olympics after winning a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) appeal against a ban for missing three doping tests. The 27-year-old, who won the silver medal in the Olympic road race in London four years ago and who will be among the favourites again in Rio, was facing an automatic ban under the "whereabouts system" after three missed tests within a year. "I have always been and will always be a clean athlete and have been vocal in my anti-doping stance throughout my career," Armitstead said in a statement. More...