The key questions MPs must ask Brailsford on Team Sky and doping | Sean Ingle

Dec 18, 2016

Sir Dave Brailsford and Shane Sutton will appear before MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee on Monday. What should they be asked?

Back when Team Sky was in utero, Sir Dave Brailsford made a startling statement of intent. “People come into professional cycling and compromise,” he told the Guardian in 2009. “We can’t compromise.” He was discussing specifically why he was avoiding riders associated with doping, but his words carried a deeper message: others might sprint into grey and black to be successful but Sky’s aim was to be straight as well as successful.

There was always a contrast between the public projection of the Sky image – marginal gains, no stone left unturned, glory upon glory – and the apparent organisational chaos beneath. But when Brailsford and his former right-hand man, Shane Sutton, face MPs on Monday the questions will cut to a more fundamental issue: whether British Cycling and Team Sky followed the letter and spirit of the anti-doping code.

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