One of Bradley Wiggins’ former team doctors has told Cyclingnews that he is sceptical over Team Sky’s and British Cycling’s assertion that a medical package transported to the Dauphine in 2011 and administered to Bradley Wiggins at the race contained the legal decongestant Fluimucil.
Both British Cycling and Team Sky have appeared in front of the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s (DCMS) anti-doping committee and stated that the medical package contained nothing more than the over-the-counter product. However, neither organisation, nor the doctor at the centre of the story, Richard Freeman, have yet produced evidence to back up their claim.
UK-Anti-Doping have launched an investigation into a potential anti-doping violation and at a hearing organised by the DCMS committee it was announced that Freeman had failed to keep any medical records relating to Wiggins. Freeman had been called to appear before the committee earlier this week but with 24-hours notice pulled out, citing health issues. UKAD Chief Executive Nicole Sapstead stated that the doctor had reported his work laptop stolen in 2014. The computer held Freeman’s medical notes.
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Prentice Steffen, who works at the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team, was Wiggins’ doctor during the 2009 race season. In December - after Team Sky’s Dave Brailsford had told the select committee that Fluimucil had been administered – Steffen told Cyclingnews that the story reminded him of the Lance Armstrong era in Cycling.
On Thursday the American physician continued to remain unimpressed.
“I think that it continues to look bad. It continues to be curious at best that they can’t come up with better answers by now,” he told Cyclingnews. “The whole thing has dragged out way too long with it taking so long for someone to say that the package was Fluimucil. It’s dragged on with a lack of clarity over what transpired with no records. It’s super unfortunate for them and for cycling in general. I’m sceptical. It doesn’t really add up."
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