Defending Tour de France champion Chris Froome reiterated his call for the World Anti-Doping Agency to tighten up its rules regarding the use of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) by athletes, and says he rejected using them for moral reasons.
Froome was questioned during a press conference with the British media today about the use of TUEs by Team Sky, and about the current inquiry by UK Anti-Doping surrounding the team.
Froome distanced himself from the inquiry, saying that he has been focusing more on training and the upcoming season, and has only discussed his schedule with Brailsford.
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Team Sky's relationship with British Cycling, and its use of then-women's national team manager Simon Cope to deliver an (until recently 'mysterious') medical package to Bradley Wiggins in 2011, has been the subject of a parliamentary inquiry during which Froome's boss David Brailsford testified that the bag contained Fluimucil.
Since late last year, the focus of criticism has been on Wiggins, whose TUE data was leaked to the public along with Froome's by hackers. Wiggins received TUEs to use injectable corticosteroids to treat asthma before the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and ahead of the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
According to BBC, Froome says that it is "healthy" to ask questions about why the UCI granted Wiggins these TUEs, but that controversy surrounding it is "not good for sport in general".
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