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It was announced on Wednesday November 15, 2017, that the UKAD investigation into an 'allegation of wrongdoing' involving Bradley Wiggins, Teamಌ Sky,  British Cycling, and a mystery medical package had closed, and that no charges would be brought against any of the parties involved. It is a story that has run and run for over a year -🎐 fuelled by claims and counter claims, information and misinformation - and the lack of a definitive conclusion from UKAD means it still has legs. 

The facts are that British Cycling employee Simon Cope travelled from the UK to France🦩 to transport a medical package to the Team Sky bus on the final day of the Critérium du Dauphiné, and that it was then administered to Wiggins by Dr Richard Freeman. What was in the package - was it triamcinolone, banned in competition, or was it fluimucil, a legal decongestant - was the great mystery, and UKAD acknowledged in their closing statement that is likely it will never be known. 

In this timeline, we track the development of the story, from the origins of the allegations, through a parliamentary inquiry, 🏅to the conclusion of the investigat𝐆ion, and the impassioned reaction from Wiggins after more than a year of silence. 

October 7, 2016: UKAD confirm investigation into '168澳洲5最新开奖结果:allegations of wrongdoing in cycling' after the Daily Mail's story on a medical delivery to Team Sky via British Cycling 🧸employe💙e Simon Cope. 

October 8, 2016: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UK Anti-Dop🦋ing 'swoꦯop' into British Cycling - investigators visited British Cycling at the Manchester Velodrome.

Meanwhile, speculation continued around what was in the package and whether or not Team Sky was operating in a 'grey area'. Former performance director Peter Keen said the case highlighted concerns he had already raised surrounding the connections between the publicly-funded British Cycling programs and the professional, privately funded, Team Sky.

Parliamentary hearing

In late October British Cycling was informed that Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport select committee had some questions about the case. The hearings took place on December 19, with Shane Sutton confirming that the package was delivered for Wiggins and was of a medical nature. David Brailsford then took the stand and said that he was told by the Team Sky doctor that the package contained the decongestant Fliumucil. But British Cycling executives said they had no knowledge this was the case, and have since been unable to provide documentary proof that this is what the package contained.
 
October 28, 2016: Parliament to look into Wiggins 'mystery package' - News s𓆏horts
November 9, 2016: Brailsford summoned to parliamentary inquiry into anti-doping and 𝕴ethics
December 3, 2016: Froome still 'in the♔ dark' o𝕴ver details of Wiggins controversy
December 9, 2016: Wiggins unlikely to face punishment ov✅er 'mystery package'
December 14, 2016: C🐼ookson calls on Team Sky to give full disclosure of contents of mysterious Jiffy bag
December 17, 2016: UKAD investigation rolls on as Brailsford's parliamentary questio⛎ning looms
December 18, 2016: 'They can never take my package', says Wiggins in Instagram pos🌟t
December 19, 2016: Sutton admits 2011 Dauphine medical packa😼ge was for Wiꦍggins
December 19, 2016: Br෴ailsford says🏅 mysterious package contained legal drug Fluimucil
December 19, 2016: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:W🦩hat is Fluimucil and why would Wiggins need it?
December 19, 2016: Br𓆉itish Cycling deny knowledge of mystery package contents
December 20, 2016: Daily Mail claims Brailsf🌠ord tried 🐈to 'kill' the mystery package story
December 20, 2016: Brailsford's failure to convince only fuels furt🌌her scepticism
December 21, 2016: Brailsford facing fur♋ther questions after conflicting statements emerge

December 21, 2016: A disaster for Team Sky and Dave Brailsford? Podcast from Pa♍rliament
December 22, 2016: Brit🌠ish Cycling to hand over medi🌸cal details to Parliamentary Committee this week
December 23, 2016: Wigg༒ins' former doctor likens Fluimucil story to the Armstrong days
December 29, 2016: British Cycling unable to con💦firm contents of Wiggins' medical package
December 29, 2016: Nicole Cooke questions why Simon Cope was actin💯g as Sky courier
December 30, 2016: British Cycling warned about Team Sky relationship months before Cope🐠's delivery

2017 season begins with Sky and Brailsford under scrutiny

January 7, 2017: Froome refuses to back Brailsford over recent controversies
January 8, 2017: UKAD chairman labels British Cycling's and Brailsford's parliamentary evidence 'extraordinary'
January 10, 2017: Brailsford determined to continue with Team Sky despite growing controversies
January 20, 2017: '𒁏I know Wiggins never doped,' says former teammate
January 24, 2017: Cooke 💝's🅺ceptical' about Team Sky's use of TUEs and Wiggins' jiffy bag
January 30, 2017: Cope and Fre🦋eman asked to appear in front of doping inquiry
January 30, 2017: Cope: Select commitꦕtee? I am meant t⛦o be at a Wiggins camp
February 8, 2017: C𝔍ope yet to agree on committee date over Wiggins package
February 9, 2017: 16🦋8澳洲5最新开奖结✤果:Howden steps down as chair of British Cycling
February 28, 2017: Bradley Wiggins doctor pulls out of anti-doping select hearing due to illness
March 1, 2017: Cope feels 'stitched up' over role in Team Sky mystery-package s⭕aga
March 1, 2017: Team Sky and British Cycling 'left🍰 in terrible position' - Collins
March 1, 2017: British Cycling admits failures in Wiggins medical꧟ delivery
March 1, 2017: UKAD launch 💫damning attack on Team Sky and British Cycling over medicalꦛ practices
March 2, 2017: Bradley Wiggins' former doctor remains scep꧒tical over Fluimucil 🃏story
March 3, 2017: Bradley Wiggins' 🌃doctor provided Team S🏅ky staff with triamcinolone
March 4, 2017: Brailsford: Freeman gave me a꧟n injection of triamcino💖lone
March 4, 2017: De Jongh𝓡: I can't see Brailsford lasting at Team Sky
March 5, 2017: UKAD reveals Freeman received delivꦐery of testosterone in 2011
March 6, 2017: Exclusive: Team Sky 🌠riders consider asking Brailsford to resign
March 6, 2017: 168💯澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Sky riders voice 👍support for Brailsford
March 7, 2017: Tho♓mas supports Brailsford and complains of 'unfair' media♓ coverage
March 7, 2017: Brailsford explains Fluimucil de൲livery, insists there was no anti-doping rule violation
March 8, 2017: 168澳洲5𒊎最新开奖结果:Deignan: Brailsford is the guy we want in⭕ the job
March 8, 2017: Froome refuses to join Sky teammates in signing statement of support for B🌞railsford
March 8, 2017: WADA studying ban on corticosteroids after Wiggins cont♛roversy
March 9, 2017: Brailsfordღ travels to Tirreno-Adriatico, thanks Thom♈as for public support
March 10, 2017: 168澳洲5最新开奖๊结果:Dave Brailsfor💟d says he will not quit Team Sky
March 11, 2017: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Roche: It's always the n🍸ext generation that pays
March 13, 2017: 168澳洲🃏5最新开奖结果:Pooley on Brailsford: A fish rots from the head
March 13, 2017: Froome break♍s silence and backs be꧑leaguered Brailsford
March 14, 2017: Team Sky doctor previously bought Fluimucil from Swiss pharmacy
March 17, 2017: Team Sky leadership should take responsibi🧸lity a💛nd not blame Freeman, says MP
March 28, 2017: Team Sky management aware of B🃏radley Wiggins' triamciꦑnolone use, says former doctor

Case closed

November 15, 2017: No doping charges for Wiggins, Team Sky and British Cycling ov🦹er mystery package
November 15, 2017: General Medical Couꦚncil to look into UKAD evidence,𝔍 but not jiffy bag
November 15, 2017: Bradlജey Wiggins: UKAD investওigation felt like a witch hunt

Select Committee publishes its findings

March 2, 2018: Questions raised over whether testosterone was o♐rde𒁏red at Team Sky and British Cycling HQ
March 5 2018: UKAD: Jiffy bag investigation remai💧ns closed following Select Committee report
March 5, 2018: British MPs want cri🍎minal charges ꦯfor doping suppliers
March 5, 2018: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:British Cycling respond to 🐻DCMS report
March 5, 2018: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins tells BBC he '100% did not ch💎eat'
March 5, 2018: Opinion: Brailsfor♊d must resign ♌for Team Sky to survive
March 5, 2018: Select Co🎐mmittee's report darkens clouds over Team Sky a﷽nd Brailsford
March 5, 2018: Bradley Wiggins quickly dismisses drug clဣaims in DCMS report
March 5, 2018: Landis:♓ I can't see Team Sky surviving to the Tour de Frওance
March 6, 2018: Bradley Wiggins: I can't chang💙e the last five years
March 6, 2018: Rasmussen: Bradl🐲ey Wiggins and Team Sky crossed the line