Shane Sutton, once Bradley Wiggins’ coach and mentor, and the former technical director of the Great Britain team, has reportedly told a BBC documentary due to be aired on Sunday that he regarded Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) as a legitimate way of finding "marginal gains" while staying within anti-doping rules.
The TUE system to obtain treatment with medicines that contain banned substances has been used and often abused in cycling. The UCI improved its medical governance in 2013, leading to a dramatic reduction in the numbers of TUEs approved each year.
In 2016, a leak by hackers known as Fancy Bears revealed that Wiggins and Team Sky obtained a TUE to use the powerful corticosteroid triamcinolone in 2011, 2012 and 2013 before he raced in Grand Tours. A medical consultant prescribed Wiggins triamcinolone to help control his pollen allergies. However, the drug is widely viewed as performance enhancing and is on the banned list if not used with a TUE.
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Sutton made his claims about TUE use during an interview for a BBC documentary titled Britain’s Cycling Superheroes: the Price of Success, which investigated the controversies that have beset Team Sky and British Cycling in the past 14 months.
The Guardian and the BBC report that Sutton, who is now a coach for the Chinese track team, said: “If you’ve got an athlete that’s 95% ready and that little 5% niggle or injury that’s troubling them, if you can get the TUE to get them to 100%, of course you would in them days.
“The business you’re in is to give you the edge on your opponent and ultimately it’s about killing them off but you definitely don’t cross the line and that’s something we’ve never done.”
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