Former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, in a BBC report today, questioned Bradley Wiggins' use of a powerful corticosteroid drug to treat his allergies.
Tiernan-Locke also revealed that the Great Britain team, at the 2012 World Championships, offered riders Tramadol "freely around," but he did not take it. "I wasn't in any pain so I didn't need to take it, and that was offered freely around. It just didn't sit well with me at the time. I thought, 'I'm not in any pain', why would I want a painkiller?'"
Cyclingnews understand that British Cycling have put the allegation of Tradamdol use, or any other strong pain killer, to the doctor in question, and that he has denied it.
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Former Team Sky rider Michael Barry described being prescribed Tramadol to use in competition while racing for Team Sky. The team said it used the drug "minimally" and supported a ban on its use in competition.
The news of Wiggins' Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) to take injections of the drug triamcinolone acetonide (Kenalog) before the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and the 2013 Giro d'Italia emerged after hackers gained entry into the World Anti-Doping Agency's athlete management system for the Olympic Games in Rio.
WADA and the UCI have defended the TUE application process, stating that athletes like Wiggins followed the rules that allow for them to use normally banned substances when they have a medical need. Wiggins stated that he did not take the drug to gain an advantage. "This wasn't about trying to find a way to gain an unfair advantage. This was about putting myself back on a level playing-field in order to compete at the highest level," he said.
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