{"id":15652,"date":"2017-11-18T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/18\/shane-sutton-defends-bradley-wigginss-use-of-tues-for-marginal-gains\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T00:07:00","slug":"shane-sutton-defends-bradley-wigginss-use-of-tues-for-marginal-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=15652","title":{"rendered":"Shane Sutton defends Bradley Wiggins\u2019s use of TUEs for \u2018marginal gains\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Coach defends tactic of using TUEs within the rules in BBC documentary\u2022 \u2018You definitely don\u2019t cross the line and that\u2019s something we\u2019ve never done\u2019Sir Bradley Wiggins\u2019s former coach Shane Sutton has told a BBC documentary that he regarded therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) as a legitimate way of finding \u201cmarginal gains\u201d while staying within anti-doping rules.The five-times Olympic champion\u2019s use of the corticosteroid triamcinolone on three occasions in 2011, 2012 and 2013 was within the rules because of his doctor\u2019s successful application for the TUEs; his contention has been that the drug \u2013 which is widely viewed as performance enhancing and is on the banned list if not used with a TUE \u2013 was necessary to treat his pollen allergies. Documents shown to the Guardian in September 2016 showed that the relevant consultants\u2019 letters had stated that the use of the drug was appropriate and the applications were in order. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/nov\/18\/shane-sutton-bradley-wiggins-tues\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Sutton defends Bradley Wiggins\u2019s use of TUEs for \u2018marginal gains\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Coach defends tactic of using TUEs within the rules in BBC documentary\u2022 \u2018You definitely don\u2019t cross the line and that\u2019s something we\u2019ve never done\u2019Sir Bradley Wiggins\u2019s former coach Shane Sutton has told a BBC documentary that he regarded therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) as a legitimate way of finding \u201cmarginal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}