Scrutiny of the “medical package” sent by courier to France for Sir Bradley Wiggins has intensified after Team Sky admitted that the same drug said to be in the Jiffy bag had been bought three months before in a pharmacy just three hours’ drive away.
Team Sky said that they had previously bought Fluimucil from a pharmacy in Yverdon, Switzerland, in April 2011. In June that year, Dr Richard Freeman ordered a package of what he said was the same legal drug to be collected from British Cycling in Manchester and taken by courier via train to London, then by air to Geneva and finally in a hire car to La Toussuire in France to be given to Wiggins.
The revelation has come in response…