General Medical Council to look into UKAD evidence, but not jiffy bag
'UKAD have made us aware of concerns' says GMC




The infamous 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:medical package that has sparked so much controversy surrounding 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, and British Cycling looks set to remain a mystery. After 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:closing its 14-month investigation, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has passed on evidence 'of interest' to the General Medical Council (GMC), though Cyclingnews und🌟erstands that the jiffy bag will not come under investigation from the regulatory body.
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UKAD168澳洲5最新开奖结果: issued a statement on Wednesday outlining that no anti-doping charges will be brought against Wiggins, Sky, or British Cycling due to a lack of evidence surrounding the medical product that was couriered from the UK to France by a British Cycling employee and administered to Wiggins at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné. The organisation found it 'impossible' to substantiate or refute claims it was the legal 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:decongestant fluimucil, nor allegations that it was the corticosteroiꦐd triamcinolone, banned in competition𝔉.
In its statement on Wednesday, UKAD explained that it "became aware of information that it considered to be of possible interest to the General Medical Council" and that it has "shared that information with the GMC, and wi☂ll continue to liaise with the GMC as appropriate in ▨relation to that information".
The GMC🃏 confirmed that it is looking into the information supplied.
A spokesperson said: "UKAD have made us aware of concerns and we are looking into these. However, we are not able to commen🀅t further on this matter."
Shortcomings in the keeping of medical records on the part of both Team Sky and British Cycling drew 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:heavy criﷺticism during a parliamentary committee and eventually led the UKAD investigation to a dead end, with the organisation's chief executive Nicole Sapstead expressing "168澳洲5最新开奖结果:serious concern".
The GMC possesses enhanced powers to require disclosure✃ of information, und🙈er the 1983 Medical Act, and could in theory dig further than UKAD.
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Cyclingnews unders🌳tands, however, that the jiffy bag specifically is not something that the GMC is investigating.
The lack of a paper trail relating to the product that left British Cycling's medical store and ended up ღin Wiggins' system is just one aspect of a wider picture of mispractice that may be of concern to the GMC.
Richard Freeman, the doctor who worked across British Cycling and Team Sky, and administered the contents of the jiffy bag to Wiggins, has faced criticism for his approach to the keeping of medical recor💧ds in gener🎉al. He has said that his records were kept on his private laptop only – with Team Sky explaining that he regularly failed to comply with their 'Dropbox' protocol – and that the device had been stolen while on holiday in Greece in 2014.
It also emerged that Freeman had administered triamcinolone – the banned substance used legally by Wiggins under TUEs ahead of three Grand Tours – to friends, family, and members of staff at British Cyc🌊ling and Team Sky, including Dave Brailsford. It was later reported that fellow Sky doctor Allen Farrell had resorted to changing the team's password on the World Anti Doping Agency's admin system to prevent Freeman from applying for a fourt൲h TUE for Wiggins ahead of the 2013 Tour of Britain.
UKAD boss Sapstead revealed in parliament that significant quantities of the corticosteroid had been 🌊delivered to British Cycling, with no records of how it was used. British Cycling also took delivery of a box of testerone patches – testosterone being a banned drug – though the organisation has claimed it was sent in error and returned. Freeman was in charge of ordering medical supplies while at British Cycling.
Freeman declined to appear in front of MPs due to illness and has since 168澳洲5最🤪新开奖结果:stepped down from his role as medical officer at British Cycling.
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