• ‘It is in certain people’s interest for it to get buried’
Sir Bradley Wiggins has condemned the parliamentary report into the Team Sky Jiffy bag affair and the team’s use of the corticosteroid triamcinolone as “fabricated” and based on “unsubstantiated evidence The 2012 Tour de France winner, interviewed on ITV4, also stated that further facts have come to light which he would hope might be made public in the future.
The saga began in autumn 2016 when hackers calling themselves Fancy Bears released documents showing Wiggins had been given permission to use the banned corticosteroid for medical reasons with the appropriate certificates, or TUEs, before his biggest races in 2011, 2012 and 2013, including the 2012 Tour.
Written by William Fotheringham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/21/bradley-wiggins-jiffy-bag under the title “Bradley Wiggins: ‘sinister’ details about Jiffy bag affair should be made public”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
