Isn't the first missed test exactly the same as Froome's? If the hotel desk won't let the testers go upstairs, how can that be the athlete's fault? You can't do much about someone else's actions.
If the athlete is not where they have said they will be why don't the testers phone them? In Cooke's garage case she was just down the road, hardly hiding out necking steroids in another country.
TBH trying to imagine having to report my every exact movement over the course of a year....I'm surprised that more people don't miss tests. And I'm a person who likes to know what the plans are in advance!
Athletes have to specify their whereabouts and make themselves available for testing during one hour each day, not the whole 24. So if LA was being visited at 6am, it's because she'd put "6am, hotel room" on her form. Well of course she's going to be in her room at 6am, but it does then become her responsibility to set her alarm properly. As for the testers finding the room, the UKAD site says that, "If you are staying in a hotel, for example, then you need to add your room number to your Whereabouts or ensure that the room is booked in your name so any Doping Control Officer can locate you easily" - so she seemingly hadn't done that either - as hadn't Chris Froome. It's a bit of a drag, yes, but it's part of what she's paid to do.
As for phoning them, the testers say they phoned but LA's phone was on silent. If I'm correct, I believe this would have turned the test into an "announced test" anyway, and another would then have been done at a later date. This is so the athletes don't have time to implement countermeasures while the tester is in the lift - like in Tyler Hamilton's book / the 'The Program' film
here, where a tester knocks on the USPS team bus and a team member stalls him on the door while Lance injects a bag of plasma to take his haematocrit below 50%.
