Chris Froome is currently preparing the Tour de France this week, before traveling to Utrecht where the race will be started. The Team Sky leader told about doping and explained he missed an anti-doping test this season. The British rider took full responsibility according to Velonews.

"You can ride clean in this day and age, and you can win the biggest races clean", the 2013 Tour de France winner told. "I had a couple of recovery days; I took my wife to a hotel down in Italy. The first morning we were down there, the authorities came at seven o’clock, the hotel staff refused to let them call up to the room. When we came down for breakfast, they said to us ‘Oh, anti-doping guys were here to test you this morning, but it’s our policy not to let anyone disturb our clients."

He added he appealed the missed test to authorities. "I could’ve been more proactive in letting the hotel know that it was a possibility I could best tested. I’ve stayed in hotels all over the world, been tested all over the world, but unfortunately I didn’t see this one coming."

"It definitely opened my eyes. It’s always the athlete’s responsibility to make himself available for testing."

Last year, he was sorry about the lack of anti-doping tests on the Spanish island of Tenerife ahead of the 2014 Tour de France. "We kept going up there year after year. We’d come back and be asked if we were tested, every year the answer was ‘no.’ Something wasn’t right. Many people [are] using it as a key preparation ahead of the Tour de France, and there was no testing. It was important to point it out to the authorities that this seemed to be a bit of an oversight. As far as I’ve seen, it’s been rectified. This year, I was tested at least four times during the period we were up there."