Bradley Wiggins has broken his silence, saying he opted to use the powerful steroid triamcinolone to treat asthma and breathing problems and so put himself ‘back on a level playing-field in order to compete at the highest level.’ He denied he took the drug to obtain a boost in performance, saying: “This wasn't about trying to find a way to gain an unfair advantage.”
Wiggins was speaking on the British political chat show hosted by Andrew Marr.
The 2012 Tour de France winner has come under fire from a wide range of medical specialist and former riders and dopers who used triamcinolone to boost their performances in Grand Tour because the drugs is permitted if obtained via a Therapeutic Use Exception (TUE) from the UCI.
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"If you look solely at the pattern of the TUEs of Bradley Wiggins then you would say that this looks very suspicious. It's something that a rider would do if he wants to perform well in a Grand Tour, something that I would do, something that I did," former Danish rider Michael Rasmussen told the BBC Newsnight programme.
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There is no suggestion that either Wiggins or Team Sky have broken any rules and the Briton's TUE was approved by the UCI doctor at the time. However the leak of Wiggins’ TUE data by the Fancy Bears' hackers has dented the credibility of both Wiggins and Team Sky.
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