Former UCI President Pat McQuaid has told Cyclingnews that corticosteroid abuse has been prevalent in the peloton for years and that he tried to have them banned altogether during his tenure as the head of the sport’s governing body.
McQuaid, president of the UCI from 2005 to 2013, also stated that Team Sky’s clean team ethics were ‘hypocritical’ after it came to light in the Fancy Bears leaks that the British squad had given Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) for allergies, and in Wiggins’ case, three injections of Triamcinolone acetonide in the lead up to several major events.
“I think that it’s been going on for years,” McQuaid said when asked about the abuse of corticoid steroids in cycling.
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“I tried to get corticoids banned completely. I was given the impression that they were being abused.”
When asked to provide evidence of corticoid abuse McQuaid told Cyclingnews of a conversation he had held with former UCI Scientific Advisor and UCI doctor, Mario Zorzoli, in around 2011. He could not remember the specific date.
“I do remember having a discussion with Zorzoli and he told me that at the Classics there were riders who were looking to win or do well and were taking corticosteroids during that period on a TUE. He felt that it wasn’t a genuine TUE but that it was just to help them.”
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