The delivery of medicines to Team Sky on a stage race Bradley Wiggins won has plunged the rider and team into a new media storm in the UK.
Having endured weeks of pressure after the leaking of Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) details online last month, Team Sky and its former leader Bradley Wiggins have been plunged into a new media storm.
News reports in the UK have stated UK Anti Doping is conducting an inquiry into cycling.
The reports say the probe focuses on a “medical package” delivered to the Team Sky on the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011.
The Daily Mail has reported UK Anti Doping is examining the transportation of a package that was allegedly flown to Geneva and driven to Team Sky on the race in France, which Wiggins won.
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However, the Mail also reports that British Cycling confirmed to its reporters yesterday that a member of its coaching staff had travelled to La Toussuire in France with medication requested by Team Sky on June 12th, 2011.
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It was the last day of the Dauphine and Wiggins was celebrating winning the race. He would go on to crash out of the Tour just weeks later but won it the following year.
The Mail report states British Cycling was unable to say what was in the package or who it was for because of doctor-patient confidentiality.
But the federation said it did not contain triamcinolone; the substance at the centre of Wiggins’s TUE controversy.
The Mail reports a statement from UK Anti Doping to it, which said: “UKAD is investigating an allegation of wrongdoing in cycling. In order to protect the integrity of the investigation we will not comment further.”
The use or medicines or the delivery of a package containing medicines to a cycling team is not in itself illegal of course.
However, the story is likely to see Team Sky faced with a series of questions about what was in the package, as is British Cycling.
And because news of the package has reached UK Anti Doping it must investigate it and speak to those involved to establish what was in the package.
That development comes as bad news for Wiggins and Team Sky.
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