Team Sky Principal Dave Brailsford "may have given misleading information to a parliamentary committee" that Bradley Wiggins’ medical records have been provided to a UK Anti-Doping investigation, according to Martyn Ziegler of the LONDON TIMES. Brailsford said on "three occasions" while giving evidence to the Culture, Media & Sport Committee on Monday that the British cyclist’s medical records "had been provided to the investigation." Wiggins’ camp "has also indicated the medical records have been made available," but two sources said that UKAD investigators "have not received any such documents." Meanwhile, Committee Chair Damian Collins "expressed his concern after it was reported that Brailsford offered incentives to try to prevent publication of a story" about a package of unknown medication being couriered by a British Cycling coach to France in '11 to be given to Wiggins at the end of a race. It was in response to "Collins’ questioning that Brailsford told MPs the records had been provided" to UKAD. Brailsford: "My understanding is that they have been made available to UKAD." When asked "if for some reason they had not been made available, would he urge Wiggins and his doctor to do so," Brailsford replied, "They have been. My understanding is they have been. The fact that he has given UKAD his medical records for that time is very much a step in the right direction" (LONDON TIMES, 12/21). In London, Tom Cary reported the confusion over Wiggins’ medical records "is significant" as UKAD "has still not been able to verify that Fluimucil was the drug administered to Wiggins after the 2011 Criterium du Dauphiné," which was what Brailsford claimed on Monday. The Team Sky principal revealed publicly for the first time that the decongestant was the medicine in the "jiffy bag" carried out by ex-British Cycling employee Simon Cope -- or "at least that was what he had been led to believe" by Sky’s doctor, Richard Freeman. Brailsford’s "testimony as a whole, and the manner in which Team Sky handled the saga, have not convinced everyone," however, with further questions raised by Monday’s hearing, "particularly concerning Brailsford’s initial response to the allegations" (TELEGRAPH, 12/20).
