British Cycling was warned about the dangers of its relationship with Team Sky just months before women’s coach Simon Cope embarked on a four-day journey to deliver a medical package for Bradley Wiggins, it has emerged.
As part of evidence requested by British parliament's Culture, Media, and Sport Committee in the wake of a hearing last week, British Cycling has submitted a report from an audit carried out by Deloitte early in 2011. According to The Times, it contains assurances from senior figures that "for the 2011 season the amount of resource sharing is expected to be minimal" and that Shane Sutton would work "almost exclusively" with Team GB rather than Sky.
Team Sky, the professional road outfit, was launched in 2010 with the involvement of many senior figures at British Cycling, the publicly-funded governing body.
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"A doping scandal within Team Sky would undoubtedly present a serious reputational risk to UK Sport, British Cycling and Sky," added the report. "However, all reasonably possible precautions against the doping risk appear to have been taken."
Three months later, Sutton, with Team Sky in La Toussuire at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné, 'arranged' for the now-infamous medical package to be delivered by Cope from the UK for Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman. At the Select Committee hearing, Sutton confirmed that the contents of the package were given to Wiggins on the Team Sky bus, with Brailsford then claiming that it contained the legal decongestant fluimucil.
British Cycling promised to clear up the mystery over the contents of the package, but have been unable to provide documentary evidence to substantiate Brailsford's suggestion.
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