Tour de France 2013 champion Chris Froome expressed support on Thursday for the recommendation that cyclists be on call overnight for drug testing, . Currently, testers are not permitted to visit cyclists between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Expanding testing to the overnight hours was one of the key recommendations of the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC), a panel tasked by cycling鈥檚 governing body to investigate doping in the sport, . The CIRC report notes that cyclists may be able to microdose EPO at night and test clean by the morning.
Froome has never failed a doping test, though he recently came under fire for using an asthma inhaler with a doctor鈥檚 permission. Olympic gold medalist Nicole Cooke was quoted聽 on Wednesday as saying that type of use is a 鈥渄isturbing gray area.鈥