Briton Yates not suspended after failing drug test: UCI (Reuters)

British rider Simon Yates, a strong contender to make Britain’s Olympic cycling team, will not be provisionally suspended after failing a drugs test, the sport’s governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), said on Friday. Yates, one of the brightest prospects in British cycling, failed the test due to an “administrative error” over the use of an asthma inhaler, his team Orica-GreenEDGE said. The UCI said in a statement that Yates had not been suspended because “such a substance does not entail imposition of a provisional suspension”.