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Parliamentary Committee asks about mystery package

The Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee in the British Parliament, Damian Collins MP, has told British Cycling that the committee has questions about the “mystery medical package delivered by a British Cycling employee to Team Sky at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphiné,” according to the Telegraph.

The committee is expected to meet by the end of November. The British website speculated that Bradley Wiggins, Simon Cope, who delivered the package, physio Phil Burt and team doctor Richard Freeman, could all be called to give evidence.

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Wiggins has made no public statement on the issue, and team principal Dave Brailsford has refused to disclose the contents of the package.

The UK Anti-Doping Agency is also investigating the incident.

Bradley Wiggins has been in the spotlight since leaked medical data showed the five-time Olympic champion had been granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) by cycling authorities for the powerful steroid triamcinolone

You can read more at Cyclingnews.com



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