Team Sky’s former cyclist Josh Edmondson admits using drugs and needles and claims team bosses kept it quiet when he confessed
Josh Edmondson was with Team Sky in 2014 and admits travelling to Italy to buy syringes in breach of UCI policy
TEAM SKY have been accused of another ‘cover-up’ in the latest blow to British cycling.
Just 48 hours after Team Sky blamed Dr Richard Freeman for the Bradley Wiggins ‘Jiffygate’ scandal, ex-rider Josh Edmondson claimed he used drugs and needles.
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The Brit, 24, says he injected himself with vitamins and used controversial painkiller Tramadol.
Edmondson, who was with Sky in 2013 and 2014, insists he breached governing body UCI’s no-needle policy ‘two or three times a week’ for about a month.
And he claims he confessed to Team Sky bosses who chose not to act.
In a BBC interview, Edmondson said: “I went to Italy to buy the vitamins. I bought syringes, carnitine, folic acid, TAD, damiana compositum, and vitamin B12.
“I’d inject two or three times a week. I’d inject the carnitine more because it was very effective.”
The vitamins Edmondson bought are legal but the UCI banned cyclists from using needles in 2011.
A Team Sky statement said: “Given our belief there was no evidence of an anti-doping rule violation, the decision not to escalate or make public the incident was taken with the team’s duty of athlete care in mind.”
