Cloud clears for Froome

REIGNING Tour de France champion Chris Froome has been cleared by cycling’s world governing body of any wrongdoing in a doping case.

The British cyclist faced being barred from this year’s Tour de France due to uncertainty over an adverse finding related to a test during last year’s Vuelta a Espana.

It has, however, been confirmed that the race organiser will not seek to bar Team Sky’s Froome from taking part in the race because the International Cycling Union’s decision to clear the cyclist had rendered any such attempt obsolete.