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Australias womens Olympic road cycling team are unhappy that British world road racing champion Lizzie Armitstead will be on the start line at Rio.Armitstead, who is the gold medal favourite, had her automatic ban for missing three doping tests overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport who ruled procedures werent followed correctly for the first test.Australias Gracie Elvin said the team was disappointed by the outcome.Were all quite shocked and to be honest a bit disappointed in how things have happened in the last few days, Elvin, a two-time Australian champion said.We all take the utmost care and responsibility with our whereabouts (for testing) and we really try never to make mistakes like that and those were big mistakes so we really hope that things are carried out fairly with all athletes.The riders admitted it wasnt a great look for their sport, which has worked hard to shed its drug-tainted image.Elvin said they liked to think that womens cycling was clean and hoped Armitstead, who won silver at the London Games, would learn from her mistakes.She said she wanted to believe that Armitstead wasnt a drug cheat.Shes made her mistakes and shes definitely copping it in the media, Elvin saidShe did the wrong thing but I still like to think that shes a clean athlete.Were all competitive with her so thats a good thing.Armitstead said on Wednesday she was very naive in failing to contest the first of the three missed doping tests.The reason I didnt (appeal against the first missed test) was because it was my first strike and it was very close to the World Championships, so I was travelling to America, she told Britains Daily Mail.I also didnt have the legal advice. 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Jeff Bagwell Jersey Andy Pettitte Jersey . -- Anaheim Ducks captain and leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf has been scratched from Sunday nights game against the Vancouver Canucks because of an upper-body injury. While the phrase relegation-threatened has been a near-perennial adjective for Sunderland throughout this decade, it wasnt expected that Saturdays match against reigning champions Leicester City would be a six-point belter to help potentially avoid the drop.Yet thats the situation the Foxes (3-4-6) find themselves as they continue to battle a title-sized hangover in domestic play that is at direct odds with their Champions League success.Claudio Raineris team arrives in the North-East in 14th place, only two points above the drop. Leicester have already secured passage to the round of 16 in the Champions League with a match to spare, but their continental mastery has failed to translate into a robust title defence through the first three-plus months of the season.The Foxes are winless in their last four league matches (0-2-2) following their 2-2 draw versus new boys Middlesbrough last Saturday. Islam Slimanis conversion from the spot at the death secured a point for Leicester, as Riyad Mahrez also scored a penalty on either side of goals by Alvaro Negredo.Given Wednesdays match at Porto will give Ranieri a chance to blood his younger players in Europe -- the Foxes have already secured the top spot in Group G -- their manager is calling on his players to realise the urgency of their Premier League plight.Now, we have to reconnect our brains, he told the clubs official website. They must play with pressure. They must be focused and play with the same character.In the Champions League we are so happy, but in the Premier League we arent happy. Its now important to be focused on the Premier League. We are very focused on what happens in the Premier League.The most glaring difference from last season is the lack of goals from Jamie Vardy, though the striker has been drawing penalties for Leicester. The England international, who set a Premier League record with goals in 11 straight games last season, has gone 17 without for his club since netting at Anfield in a 4-1 loss to Liverpool on Sept. 10.Facing Sunderland, however,, could be the perfect opportunity for Vardy to break his duck.ddddddddddddHe had a second-half brace in the most recent meeting, a 2-0 Leicester City victory at the Stadium of Light on April 10 and contributed the first goal to a 4-2 win Aug. 8, 2015.The Foxes are 2-2-0 in their last four top-flight matches versus the Black Cats and 6-3-1 in the last 10. First-choice goalkeeper Kasper Schemichel is still out with a hand injury but expected to return this month. Midfielder Nampalys Mendy is expected to be at least on the bench for this match as hes recovered from an ankle injury.While Sunderland (2-2-9) are rooted to the bottom of the table, there have been signs of life as David Moyes tries to rebuild the side. They were denied a third straight league win last weekend at Anfield, but the defence was stubborn against the hard-charging Reds in a 2-0 defeat.If you want to win in the Premier League you have to have a sound defence. If you want to stay in the Premier League you have to be good enough defensively, Moyes said. We did a good job, but it wasnt good enough. But I have to praise the players against the quality we were playing, they stuck to their task and came pretty close.The Black Cats picked up their first home win two weeks ago in a 3-0 rout of Hull City that also served as their first clean sheet of the season in league play. Sunderland had been outscored 13-5 while getting just one point from their first five matches there.That win, coupled with their uptick in quality of play late, has them believing they could spring an upset.Leicester City won the league last year but at home its a game we should be aiming to win, midfielder Adnan Januzaj told Sunderlands official website. Just because they were successful last year doesnt mean we have to put ourselves down, and in any game anything can happen. We will head into the weekend confident and hopefully we can take three points. ' ' '