The UCI’s Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation has asked UK Anti-Doping to assess former Team Sky rider Josh Edmondson’s admission that he injected himself with vitamins and supplements in 2014, his second and final season with the team.
In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, Edmondson said that he confessed to Team Sky’s management in August 2014 that he had breached the UCI’s no needles policy, but that the team had covered up the violation.
Team Sky and its former head of medicine Dr Steve Peters have denied a cover-up. They maintain that Edmondson told them that he had purchased vials and syringes but had not performed any injections. On Friday, the UCI said that the Cycling Anti-Doping Agency is liaising with UKAD to shed further light on the matter.
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“The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has seen the BBC report. The Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation, independent entity in charge of anti-doping program and investigations for the UCI, is in touch with UKAD to assess the matter,” the UCI statement read. “No further comments will be provided at this stage.”
UKAD has already been investigating Team Sky, focusing in particular on the delivery of a package containing medicine to Bradley Wiggins and Dr Richard Freeman at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné.
The UCI introduced its no needles policy in 2011 in a bid to combat the culture of syringe and medicament use in cycling. The policy states that the “use of injections to administer drugs or substances without a clear and recognised medical indication is prohibited” and applies to any injected substance whether it is “prohibited under the UCI Anti-Doping Rules (ADR) or not.”
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