Team Sky admitted "mistakes were made" around the delivery of a medical package to Bradley Wiggins but denies "breaking anti-doping rules," according to the BBC. The team has been "unable to provide records to back up the claim Wiggins was given a legal decongestant" at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné in France. The team said that it takes "full responsibility" for the failures. Team Sky Principal Dave Brailsford said, "There is a fundamental difference between process failures and wrongdoing." On Tuesday, Team Sky published a covering letter and supporting document sent by Brailsford to address the concerns of the Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee (BBC, 3/7).
TEAMMATE BLAMES WIGGINS: In London, Matt Dickinson reported Team Sky cyclist Geraint Thomas insisted that Wiggins rather than Brailsford should be "in the firing line over controversial medication given to the 2012 Tour de France winner." Thomas' intervention came as Brailsford resolved to "fight on" as Team Sky principal "despite failing to win the public backing" of Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome. Thomas said, "The thing is with Dave, a CEO of a company doesn't oversee everything that everyone does, you have to delegate and trust people to the head of those certain areas. I think [Dr. Richard] Freeman and Brad don't seem to be having too much of the flak ... They can swan around getting on with their lives and we are the ones who have to stand here now and answer these questions which we have nothing to do with" (LONDON TIMES, 3/8).
