A week after UKAD announced its investigation into allegations made against British Cycling and Team Sky, Cyclingnews can confirm that individuals at the centre of the investigation have already been interviewed.
Simon Cope, the British Cycling coach who delivered a package at the request of Team Sky at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011 confirmed on Friday that he had been contacted by UKAD at the start of this week. The contents of the package are still unknown. British Cycling has confirmed that the contents were medical in nature but it, Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins – who went onto win the race – have yet to confirm the contents.
"I have nothing more to say until this investigation is done," Cope told Cyclingnews on Friday, before adding that he been contacted via phone and email by UKAD.
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Cope travelled back from the Dauphine with Shane Sutton, who at the time was employed by both British Cycling and Team Sky. Sutton told Cyclingnews that he has not been contacted by UKAD at this point. Dave Brailsford has not responded to our inquiries, while Team Sky stated this week that, "we will be fully cooperating with this and, as we said in the message we put out on Saturday, we welcome the investigation as we are confident there has been no wrongdoing."
Tramadol
The UKAD investigation is also looking into Jonathan Tiernan-Locke's claim that the drug Tramadol was offered freely to the members of the Great Britain men's team at the 2012 World Championships in Valkenburg.
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