Dave Brailsford has told Sky News that Team Sky is '100 per cent a clean operation' and that Bradley Wiggins' career should not be tarnished after it was revealed that he was allowed to take the powerful corticosteroid triamcinolone acetonide in the build up to three major races.
Wiggins, who had approved Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) for the drug in order to cope with allergies, has already argued that he needed the substance in order to 'level the playing field' but he and his team have been criticised over their lack of transparency, with questions asked over whether the team abused the TUE system.
Since the hack group Fancy Bears leaked the TUE history of Wiggins, Chris Froome and several other athletes, Brailsford and Team Sky have refrained from answering questions. Brailsford broke his silence on Monday, telling Sky News, "Abuse is the key word. People have abused it in the past.
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"But the question was, is there a genuine medical need? And given the process and the integrity of the process - there was a doctor and authorities who approved this - I didn't see any need to question this. I felt I could trust it.
"What I can tell everybody is that we are doing it the right way. It is 100 per cent a clean operation, we always look at the right thing to do and have policies and process to make sure that we perform in the right way and people can believe in us."
- Brailsford, Sky and the questions still to be answered
- Pursuit of Tour de France glory costs Team Sky their idealism
- Millar says Wiggins' TUE drugs should be banned
A change of policy on TUEs
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