Following a month of scrutiny in the wake of the Fancy Bears hack of the WADA ADAMS system and release of Chris Froome's and Bradley Wiggins' TUEs, Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford has spoken for the first time in an interview with the Telegraph Cycling Podcast.
Following the release of the TUEs, former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke spoke of Great Britain riders being offered Tramadol 'freely', before the Daily Mail report of a medical package being delivered from the UK to Team Sky's bus in France on the final stage of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine. UK Anti Doping (UKAD) confirmed to Cyclingnews last week that it opened an "investigating an allegation of wrongdoing in cycling".
During the last month, Brailsford has largely remained out of the media but admitted that he "probably made the situation worse" in conversation with the Cycling Podcast.
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"This is not a comfortable situation. This is whole process is a long way from comfortable and where we got to know now, is not been comfortable at all," Brailsford said in the interview. "Let's face facts, this last week I don't think I handled the situation as well as I could have done and I probably made it a damn sight worse than it needed to be quite frankly. It's not comfortable, it's not comfortable to be under this level of scrutiny.
"From what was a very small fire, if you like, I inadvertently threw a huge amount of petrol on it and two and two equals ten now… I hold my hand up here - I haven't done a very good job of this one, unfortunately, and have probably made the situation worse."
While admitting that his response could have been better, Brailsford explains that he has no concerns regarding Wiggins' TUEs for triamcinolone, adding the caveat "We'll be reviewing how we operate with TUEs going forward, that's for sure," he said.
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