The BBC reported today that former Team Sky rider Josh Edmondson said he violated the UCI's no-needle rule in 2014 by self-injecting vitamin supplements, and the team declined to report the incident to the UCI. While Edmondson claims the team covered up the violation, Sky's head physician Steve Peters says the 24-year-old told them he hadn't performed the injection but only had the equipment to do so.
Edmondson's admission comes amidst a UKAD investigation into Team Sky over the delivery of a package containing medicine from Manchester to the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2011 for Bradley Wiggins, and criticisms over their use of the corticosteroid triamcinolone.
Edmondson, now with the Continental team NFTO, was in the last year of his contract with Team Sky and knew he was in jeopardy of not being renewed. He told the BBC he bought syringes and carnitine, folic acid, 'TAD' [reduced glutathione -ed] and an herbal supplement and inject them two or three times a week.
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He said he had been tempted to use performance enhancing drugs, but chose this path instead. "This was my way of closing the gap a little without doping," Edmondson said to the BBC. "Some people think there is a grey area, and that's why there is a no-needle policy, but people across sport have been injecting vitamins for years and it is an alternative to doping.
"It's not the same - if you were doping, you are getting massive gains. This is just freshening what you do naturally."
Edmondson only got away with it for a few weeks, saying he picked up the supplements before the Tour of Austria, and then was turned in by a teammate who found his syringes in the Tour of Poland a month later.
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