Wiggins on the podium on ‘jiffy bag day’, winning the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné from Cadel Evans and Alexandre Vinkourov (Photo: Sirotti)
Reports in the UK media suggest the UK Anti Doping (UKAD) investigation into a ‘jiffy bag' containing a medical product delivered to Team Sky in 2011 is about to conclude that Bradley Wiggins should face no action over the matter.
The Times of London has reported exclusively today that UKAD’s conclusion will not be definitive about the package.
Instead it will conclude British Cycling and Team Sky should keep better records around medical packages being transported.
One source who spoke to The Times said the outcome of the inquiry about to become public could be described as a “no score draw”.
Chris Froome just last week said while he had asked what was in the bag he was "still in the dark".
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And while he hoped the answers would come at the end of the UKAD inquiry, it appears the information that will become available will be less than complete.
The report in The Times, based on speaking to what it says are informed sources familiar with the inquiry, states:
- Wiggins will not face any further investigation into the medical package delivered to is doctor, Richard Freeman, on the final day of the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné that Wiggins won.
- No riders will be cited and no charges are anticipated.
- UK Anti Doping expected to express concerns over documentation and transportation of medicines.
- Coach Simon Cope who brought the medical parcel from the UK to France said he never knew what was in it.
- Another member of Team Sky staff, who was involved in packing the bag, said they could not remember what was in it.
- It is not known what Dr Richard Freeman told the UKAD inquiry.
The Daily Mail in October put it to Team Sky that a medical package had been delivered to it in France on the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2011.
The team then passed the allegation to British Cycling and asked it to refer the matter to UK Anti Doping for it to investigate.
It means a probe into an allegation of doping was generated by queries from the Daily Mail.
The matter emerged just after the Fancy Bears Russian hacking team hacked into WADA’s database and released the TUE details of top sports stars across a variety of sports.
The published documents showed Wiggins availed of triamcinolone TUEs before the Tours in 2011 and 2012 and Giro in 2013; details that have damaged Wiggins long term though the TUEs were sanctioned and he broke no rules.
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