TOUR WINNER FR O O ME SAYS ANTI-DOPING SYSTEM ‘OPEN TO ABUSE ’

Three- time Tour de France cycling winner Chris Froome says the anti-doping system is “open to abuse” by letting athletes take banned substances as medication. Froome, whose two officially approved “therapeutic use exemptions” ( TUEs) in his career were revealed by hackers this month, writes on Twitter “I know that I have to not only abide by the rules but go above and beyond that to set a good example both morally and ethically.” Bradley Wiggins, another British Tour de France winner, has been criticized over TUEs. Hackers leaked that Wiggins got intramuscular injections of a strong corticosteroid days before three big races, including the 2012 Tour. When Wiggins won the 2012 Tour, Froome was runner-up.