Former Olympic champion Nicole Cooke has added another dimension to the ongoing saga of the purported delivery of cough medication to Bradley Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011, questioning why the manager of the women's national team, Simon Cope, was acting as a courier for Team Sky.
Former technical director Shane Sutton confirmed that a padded envelope was transported by Cope from the UK to France for Bradley Wiggins during the 2011 race during a Parliamentary hearing of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
"I can usefully add other dimensions," Cooke wrote in her column in The Guardian. "Three of the four witnesses before the committee have just spent six months locked into an investigation asking: “Does sexism exist in British Cycling?”
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The Times revealed today that Cope's trip cost some £600 in expenses, and questioned why Team Sky delayed treating Wiggins, who had apparently been suffering from health issues en route to winning the overall Dauphine – choosing to instead wait and send Cope with a package which, according to David Brailsford, contained Fluimucil, a drug readily available at French pharmacies near the race.
Cooke added another angle: "Why did the top management deem it acceptable to use the publicly funded national women's team road manager, Simon Cope, in the role of a basic courier?"
Cooke called revelations that Cope had been working with Sky and running training camps for Wiggins "entirely new and disturbing".
- Brailsford says mysterious package contained legal drug Fluimucil
- Sutton admits 2011 Dauphine medical package was for Wiggins
- British Cycling deny knowledge of mystery package contents
- Wiggins and Team Sky under fresh scrutiny over medical package delivery
- Brailsford refuses to clarify contents of Team Sky's medical package
- Cope: I don't know what was in the package for Team Sky
- Pooley: Brailsford and Sky need to get their facts straight
- The Cyclingnews podcast: Exclusive interview with Team Sky's Dave Brailsford
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