Lizzie Deignan to UCI: ‘Monitor more women’s whereabouts’

Former world champion Lizzie Deignan calls for comprehensive scrutiny to combat doping in women's pro cycling

Lizzie Deignan attacks on the Mur de Huy, finishing second in Flèche Wallonne behind team-mate Anna Van der Breggen

(Image credit: ASO)

Lizzie Deignan has called on the UCI to put more female pro riders on the whereabouts monitoring system that she very nearly fell foul of last year, to improve its efforts to combat doping in the sport.

The UCI mandates that all “male professional road riders” use the Anti Doping Administrative Management System (ADAMS), which requires riders to input their location for one hour every day for out of competition testing; if they are not there and testers arrive it gets marked as a missed test and they face a ban if they miss three in 18 months.

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