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Lizzie Deignan
Lizzie Armitstead, now Deignan, is one of Britain's most successful female cyclists and sets the record straight after recent controversy in her career.
Last year Lizzie Armitstead, now Deignan, was caught in a huge storm. When she should have been focused on winning gold at the Rio Olympics, she learned that she had been suspended by UK Anti-Doping. The organisation said she had failed on three separate occasions in one year to be where she said she would be for drug testing. But the ruling against her was overturned in court and she came back fighting - both on the track and off it.
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