Brian Cookson’s response over cycling crisis is too little, too late | Owen Gibson

Oct 11, 2016

The UCI president breaks his silence over the Fancy Bears hack and TUE revelations to insist ‘it’s clear, as far as I can see, no rules have been broken’

As the planet’s finest cyclists battled through Doha’s searing temperatures and eerie crowd-free calm at the world road racing championships, Brian Cookson could be forgiven if he was starting to feel the heat too.

Amid the furore over the three therapeutic use exemptions (TUE) granted to Bradley Wiggins in 2011, 2012 and 2013, then the claims made by the former Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Lock about the powerful painkiller Tramadol and, finally, the mystery medical package delivered to Sky on the day Wiggins won the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2011, increasingly uncomfortable questions have been posed to Team Sky, British Cycling and Wiggins.

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