Sport in brief

Simon Yates will miss the Tour de France but return to racing in July after the International Cycling Union gave him a four-month ban for testing positive for Terbutaline.

Yates was not provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding for the asthma drug while competing at Paris-Nice in March, with his Orica-GreenEdge team seeking to take the blame, saying it was due to an administrative error as the team doctor had failed to correctly apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE).

The team kept Yates out of competition while they awaited the verdict, and had held out hope he would be cleared in time for the Tour de France, which starts on July 2.

But on Friday the team announced Yates would instead return at the Tour of Poland, which starts on July 12.

The team’s general manager Shayne Bannan said in a statement: “Simon has been given a four-month sanction by the UCI given the administrative error in not having a required TUE for his asthma inhaler at Paris-Nice. The team has taken full responsibility for this all along and we look forward to seeing Simon back racing. It has been an unfortunate break due to circumstances that Simon cannot be blamed, but above all we are happy that it has now come to a conclusion. Scotland’s Grace Reid has been confirmed as a member of Team GB for the Rio Olympics. The 20-year-old from Edinburgh, who competes in the three-metre discipline, is one of 11 athletes whose selection was announced yesterday. Tom Daley is in the individual and synchronised 10-metre events.

Reid’s coach Jen Leeming said: “To see her grow as a person and as a diver over the last few years has been brilliant, and I’m just so pleased for her that she has secured this place at the Olympics.” Cammie Fraser and Ed Greaves were on target for Scotland as they ground out a courageous 2-2 draw with France in the opening game of the PHA 90th Anniversary Cup at a wet and windy Gniezna, yesterday.