MPs to ask more questions about Team Sky's mystery package
ByPA Sport
Updated 30/01/2017 at 14:33 GMT
The head of UK anti-doping and the doctor alleged to have received a mystery package intended for Sir Bradley Wiggins at a race in 2011 will answer questions from the Culture, Media and Sport select committee next month.
British cyclist Bradley Wiggins waits to compete in the Longest Lap race on the first day of the London Six Day 2016 cycling event at the Lee Valley VeloPark in east London on October 25, 2016. Five-time Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins embarked upon his
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Dr Richard Freeman, who works for British Cycling and was formerly employed by Team Sky, administered the contents of the package to Wiggins at the end of the 2011 Dauphine de Libere, a Tour de France warm-up race, former technical director Shane Sutton has previously told MPs.
The government department confirmed on Monday Freeman had been called to answer questions regarding the package on Wednesday, February 22.
Team principal Dave Brailsford told an earlier CMS select committee hearing on December 19 that Freeman had told him the package had contained the decongestant Fluimucil, a drug which was available cheaply over the counter in France where the race was taking place.
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Dr Richard Freeman was Team Sky doctor in June 2011 when courier Simon Cope delivered a package to him at the conclusion of the Criterium du Dauphine stage race in France
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UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) chief executive Nicole Sapstead, whose organisation is also investigating the Wiggins package, will also answer questions at the February 22 hearing. So too will former British Cycling coach Simon Cope, who transported the package from the UK to France.
The package has been the subject of a UKAD investigation into alleged ''wrongdoing'' ever since the story was revealed by the Daily Mail in October. Team Sky and Wiggins have denied any wrongdoing.
Wiggins was given a medical exemption to use triamcinolone, a powerful corticosteroid, before the Tour de France races of 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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