Riders react to the Lizzie Armitstead case

World Champion Lizzie Armitstead (Boels Dolmans)

World Champion Lizzie Armitstead (Boels Dolmans) (Image credit: Sean Robinson/Velofocus)

Lizzie Armitstead may have been cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over one of her three missed anti-doping tests but the whole thing has been hard to swallow for some of her companions from the world of professional cycling.