Damian Collins MP, the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee has told Cyclingnews that the leadership at Team Sky should take responsibility for their failings to provide sufficient medical records in the UK Anti-Doping investigation surrounding Bradley Wiggins.
UKAD are investigating a potential doping violation carried out in 2011 when British Cycling sent a medical package to Dr Richard Freeman at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphiné. British Cycling and Team Sky both claim that the package contained the decongestant Fluimucil and that it was used to treat Bradley Wiggins. No party has been able to back up the claim with medical records, however, and the select committee heard allegations that the package contained the steroid triamcinolone.
Collins has already made his feelings on Team Sky and their ethical standards clear, stating that their reputation was in ‘tatters’ after the doctor at the centre of the inquiry failed to give oral evidence due to medical reasons.
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“The issues with the package is that the more we get told about it, and the way it was ordered, then the less sense any of this seems to make,” Collins told Cyclingnews.
There are a number of areas in Team Sky’s story that puzzle Collins. For instance, why would the team spend four days transporting a medical package for an apparently sick rider when they could have sourced the medicine locally? Team Sky this week admitted that they had previously sourced Fluimucil in Switzerland, just over the border from where the Dauphiné finished that year.
“What’s never really been explained is, if a medicine was needed for a rider who is currently in competition, why would they wait until after competition to seek that medicine when it could have been given to him during the race? Then why they took the highly unusual step of taking it from Manchester which took a number of days, rather than collecting it from a local pharmacy that would have taken a number of hours," Collins said.
What was in the package?
Freeman remains silent
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