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Friday 3 March 2017
Bradley Wiggins angered by questions about medical package

ROB HARRIS those records were not
AP Sports Writer complete and clear and
LONDON (AP) — With inves- available,” Browning said.
tigations escalating into a THE FUNDING
mystery medical package British Cycling is one of the
dispatched to a race six country’s best-funded na-
years ago to treat Bradley tional bodies from the gov-
Wiggins, the British cycling ernment and National Lot-
great’s anger boiled over tery. It received 30 million
on Thursday. pounds ($37 million) in the
Not over the revelation Rio de Janeiro Games cy-
that Team Sky didn’t retain cle and will collect another
adequate records of his 26 million pounds from the
medication. UK Sport agency in the
Nor by the discovery that four-year cycle to fund its
British Cycling didn’t track Tokyo program.
the movement of medical That cash could be at risk if
supplies. UK Sport loses faith in British
What incensed Wiggins Cycling.
was the presence of re- The body has to abide
porters outside his home by “actions plans ... as
seeking answers about a condition of grant,”
a package being inves- UK Sport chief executive Liz
tigated by the country’s Nicholls said, adding that it
anti-doping agency and a In this Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, former Tour de France winner and Olympic Gold was “shocking” to discover
parliamentary committee. medalist Britain’s Bradley Wiggins greets spectators prior to competing in the six day race at the British Cycling dispensed
After walking down the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent, Belgium. drugs to Team Sky without
driveway and opening a Associated Press a license as a wholesaler.
gate, Wiggins confronted “I’m reassured that British
a BBC television crew and used for clearing mucus. Team doctor Richard Free- in charge of the sport inter- Cycling has acted very
snapped: “This is my house. U.K. Anti-Doping chief ex- man should have logged nationally. UCI President Bri- quickly to say there will be
It’s a private road. I will call ecutive Nicole Sapstead, Wiggins’ use of an unli- an Cookson is not available a review of their medical
the police.” though, used a parliamen- censed product — if it was for interview, the organiza- management policy, ac-
Associates pushed the tary committee hearing on used — to abide by British tion said, and he did not tually an independent re-
camera away as a report- Wednesday to reveal that medical guidelines. respond to a tweet asking view of their medical man-
er asked Britain’s most dec- the agency is investigating Freeman was due to give why British Cycling didn’t agement policy and their
orated Olympian and first whether the product was in evidence to the parlia- log the movement of medi- record keeping,” Nicholls
Tour de France winner if he fact a banned corticoste- mentary committee on cal supplies. said on Thursday at the
would “shed some light” roid called triamcinolone. Wednesday but withdrew British Cycling and Team Manchester velodrome
on the “mystery package.” THE LEGALITY citing illness. UKAD said Sky shared staff, including where both Team Sky and
THE PACKAGE For Wiggins, triamcinolone Freeman maintained re- performance chief Dave British Cycling are based.
What isn’t disputed is that would be allowed in com- cords only on a laptop and Brailsford at the time, and “What we heard in the se-
a package was couriered petition only if a thera- didn’t upload the records a medical storage facility. lect committee was not
in 2011 to France with a peutic use exemption was to share with colleagues as That contained “excessive” acceptable in terms of the
product for Wiggins as he obtained, as he did three required. Freeman also told quantities of triamcinolone standard of management
completed the Criterium times from 2011 to 2013 — investigators that his lap- if only Wiggins used it or of obviously delicate mat-
du Dauphine. just not for this race. If Wig- top was stolen in Greece in “quite a few people had ters.”
It’s the ambiguity over the gins was found to have 2014. a similar problem,” UKAD’s THE HONORS
contents and the revela- used triamcinolone at the THE LEADERSHIP Sapstead said. Britain’s Olympic cycling
tion about the absence of Criterium du Dauphine At the time the package Jonathan Browning, who medals: Beijing 2008 (14),
paperwork that, accord- without a TUE he could was flown to the Criterium was appointed British Cy- London 2012 (12), Rio 2016
ing to sports officials and have been banned and du Dauphine — carried cling chairman last month, (12).
legislators, is damaging not been eligible to race by an official who said he said the organization’s Team Sky’s Tour de France
the credibility of a team and win the Tour de France didn’t ask what it con- medical services processes winners: Bradley Wiggins
that trumpeted how it set the following year. tained — British Cycling are being reviewed (2012), Chris Froome (2013,
new standards in cycling THE DOCTOR was led by the man now “It’s unacceptable that 2015, 2016).q
for winning cleanly through
“marginal games.” On Olympic course debut, Vonn 1st in downhill training
Everything was suppos-
edly monitored, logged, JEONGSEON, South Korea the American. defend in 2014 because of
and refined by the Team (AP) — Lindsey Vonn liked Sofia Goggia of Italy was injury.
Sky experts — from riding her first look at the 2018 third fastest, 0.59 behind The women use the same
routines to food and bed- Olympic course on Thurs- Vonn. A second training Olympic race hill as the
ding. Just not medicines day, finishing first in a World run is scheduled for Friday men, but with different
administered to its star rider Cup downhill training run. on the 2.7-kilometer (1 2/3- gate settings.q
a year before he won the Vonn was 0.17 seconds mile) course before Satur-
2012 Tour de France. ahead of Ilka Stuhec, the day’s World Cup race. American skier Lindsey Vonn
Team Sky maintains that world downhill champion Now 32, Vonn is look- smiles during the Italian State
it was a legal deconges- from Slovenia. Stuhec is set ing to return for the Py- RAI TV program “Che Tempo
tant, Fluimucil, a brand to win her first season-long eongchang Olympics and che Fa”, in Milan, Italy, Sun-
name for a product con- World Cup downhill title in regain the downhill title she day, Feb. 26, 2017
taining acetylcysteine an injury-marred season for won in 2010 but could not Associated Press