UK Anti-Doping Chief Executive Nicole Sapstead has heavily criticised British Cycling and Team Sky over their inability to keep vital medical records.
Speaking at the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s (DCMS) anti-doping committee, Sapstead answered questions regarding UKAD’s ongoing investigation into a potential anti-doping violation. She told the committee that her investigation had been met by obfuscation from Team Sky and British Cycling and that Dr. Richard Freeman – a central figure in the investigation – had failed to keep proper documentation of his work.
Sapstead stated that both British Cycling and Team Sky were unable to provide any concentre evidence to back up their claim that a medical package prescribed to Bradley Wiggins contained a legal decongestant.
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Sapstead also discussed the allegation that the package contained the powerful drug triamcinolone. The investigation has uncovered that large quantities of triamcinolone were ordered by Freeman through British Cycling. However, he failed to log medical records with both British Cycling and Team Sky before reporting his laptop stolen in 2014. He could face serious questions from the General Medical Council (GMC), who have cooperated with UKAD during the investigation.
The investigation was launched in 2016 after the Daily Mail reported that a medical package had been transported from British Cycling’s base in Manchester to Freeman, who, then working for British Cycling and Team Sky, administered the contents to Bradley Wiggins. It was claimed by Freeman and Team Sky’s Dave Brailsford that the package contained the legal decongestant Fluimucil, and that Wiggins was treated on the final day of the Dauphine.
In a lengthy appearance in front of members of Parliament, Sapstead told the committee that UKAD had met resistance during their investigation and that no evidence had been uncovered that collaborated Brailsford's and Freeman’s claim surrounding the use of Fluimucil. Sapstead added that UKAD had investigated an allegation that the package contained the substance triamcinolone – the drug that Wiggins was legally granted three times as a TUE in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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How much triamcinolone?
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