Sir Craig Reedie, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has described Shane Sutton’s comments about using the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) system to give riders an edge as "worrying".
Team Sky has long touted its successful marginal gains philosophy, accumulating small edges to try to beat their rivals and win the Tour de France. But after UK Anti-Doping decided not to level any rule violations in its investigation of the team, its former star-rider Bradley Wiggins and the delivery of a medical package from British Cycling, Sutton said he regarded TUE as a legitimate way of finding "marginal gains" while staying within anti-doping rules.
"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," Sutton says in a BBC documentary that will air on Sunday.
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"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."
Bradley Wiggins was given the powerful corticosteroid triamcinolone after obtaining a TUE from the UCI, before the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and the 2013 Giro d’Italia. Until the TUE applications were leaked by hackers after the Olympic Games in Rio, Wiggins and Team Sky never revealed the use of the drug.
Wiggins insists he used it to treat serious pollen allergies during Grand Tours and that it was a legitimate medical need. However, triamcinolone is widely known to improve performance.
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