Callum Skinner has released his medical records and an accompanying statement in a bid to safeguard his reputation after the Fancy Bears hacking group released details of his past Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE).
Though TUE’s don’t involve any breach of anti-doping rules, the leaks have brought them under the spotlight, with the suspicion that they create a grey area whereby an athlete can apply for medical treatment which enhances performance under a spurious medical pretext.
Skinner, who won a gold and silver medal on the track for Great Britain at the Rio Olympics, has availed of two TUEs in his career to treat asthma, a condition that has raised eyebrows given its prevalence among the elite athletes whose TUE histories have been made public.
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“When I went on Twitter and saw a headline with my name and stories with my picture I knew that people would be sceptical and think my TUEs could be questionable," Skinner writes in The Scotsman.
"And to be honest, I sympathise. I imagine myself a few years ago, as a cycling fan. I would have read the headline, not bothered opening the article, and moved on, putting two and two together and concluding that it all sounded a bit dodgy."
“After the leak I resolved to release my NHS medical records, so I’ve spent the past week phoning doctors I’ve seen and the hospitals to which I have been admitted on four occasions having suffered asthma attacks. I was keen to make my records public for two reasons: to prove that my condition is real, but also to show that asthma need not stop somebody competing at the highest level.”
The asthma
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