{"id":31078,"date":"2018-03-06T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/06\/wiggins-case-adds-to-concerns-over-tues-says-cyclings-governing-body\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:05:12","slug":"wiggins-case-adds-to-concerns-over-tues-says-cyclings-governing-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=31078","title":{"rendered":"Wiggins case adds to concerns over TUEs, says cycling\u2019s governing body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 UCI has fears about abuse of anti-doping system reinforced\u2022 Sir Bradley Wiggins claims to be in a \u2018living hell\u2019Cycling\u2019s world governing body said the fallout from the Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky affair has reinforced its concerns about potential abuse of the anti-doping system. The UCI said the damning findings of a parliamentary inquiry would be raised in a meeting with the World Anti-Doping Agency.The explosive report by the digital, culture, media and sport select committee concluded that Wiggins had taken performance-enhancing drugs to win the 2012 Tour de France under the guise of treating a legitimate medical condition. It said Team Sky had \u201ccrossed ethical lines\u201d by obtaining therapeutic use exemption forms, in effect a doctor\u2019s note, to take triamcinolone, a powerful corticosteroid which would usually be banned. A UCI statement read: \u201cThe conclusions in the report [insofar as cycling is concerned] support and reinforce the UCI\u2019s concerns about the potential abuse of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), in particular with respect to corticosteroids. As noted by the DCMS, these concerns were first raised in the Cycling Independent Reform Commission\u2019s report in 2015 and appear to remain an issue today. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/mar\/05\/uk-sport-considers-team-sky-and-british-cycling-compensation-bid\" target=\"_blank\">Wiggins case adds to concerns over TUEs, says cycling\u2019s governing body<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 UCI has fears about abuse of anti-doping system reinforced\u2022 Sir Bradley Wiggins claims to be in a \u2018living hell\u2019Cycling\u2019s world governing body said the fallout from the Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky affair has reinforced its concerns about potential abuse of the anti-doping system. The UCI said the damning [&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-31078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31078","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=31078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}