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Sir Bradley Wiggins will not be quizzed by MPs over doping in sport

Last Updated: 02/03/17 2:41pm

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Paul Kelso gives the lowdown on the probe into British Cycling and Team Sky
Paul Kelso gives the lowdown on the probe into British Cycling and Team Sky

Sir Bradley Wiggins will not be questioned by MPs over doping in sport, the select committee chairman has confirmed.

Damian Collins, the chair of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said Wiggins was not on their agenda because he is an "individual athlete".

UK Anti-Doping has been unable to prove what was in a medical package delivered to Wiggins before the 2011 Tour de France.

Collins said his committee's task is "to hold British Cycling and Team Sky to account because they receive public money and to question UKAD about their power and resources".

He added: "It is not for the Select Committee to investigate the medical records of an individual athlete."

UK Anti-Doping has been looking into a package delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins
UK Anti-Doping has been looking into a package delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins

UKAD has been investigating an allegation the package delivered to Wiggins contained the corticosteroid triamcinalone, a controversial drug used to treat asthma that can have performance-enhancing qualities and is banned in competition.

Wiggins received medical permission to use the drug before the 2011 Tour de France, but he and Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford have said the package contained fluimucil, a legal decongestant.

Nicole Sapstead, chief executive of UKAD, on Wednesday revealed there were no records of what drugs were sent to Wiggins at the 2011 Dauphine bike race.

Sapstead said UKAD had spent 1,000 man hours trying to find out if that package contained legal decongestant Fluimucil, as Wiggins' doctor Richard Freeman claims, or banned corticosteroid Kenalog, as a tip-off in September alleges, but is still none the wiser.

British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning says he has seen no evidence that it is 'not a clean organisation'

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British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning says he has seen no evidence that it is 'not a clean organisation'
British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning says he has seen no evidence that it is 'not a clean organisation'

Sapstead said: "We are not able to confirm or refute that it contained Fluimucil. We have asked for inventories and medical records and we have not been able to ascertain that because there are no records."

When asked why Freeman, who was too ill to appear before the panel, cannot prove he gave Wiggins Fluimucil that day, she said: "He kept medical records on a laptop and he was meant, according to Team Sky policy, to upload those records to a Dropbox the other team doctors had access to.

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"But he didn't do that, for whatever reason, and in 2014 his laptop was stolen when he was on holiday in Greece."

Team Sky, launched by former British Cycling performance director Brailsford in 2010, restated its confidence "there has been no wrongdoing" and said it was "a clean team".

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