Bradley Wiggins has said he does not believe the testosterone ordered by former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman was supplied to dope a rider.
On Friday, Freeman was found guilty by a medical tribunal of ordering testosterone knowing or believing it was to be illegally administered to a rider.
But today Wiggins cast doubts over the hearing’s outcome but called for a fresh investigation after it raised more questions than answers.
Speaking on his Eurosport podcast, Wiggins said: “I don’t know anyone in their right mind who would use that [Testogel] for doping in that period particularly given the amount of testing in that time: the blood passports, in-house testing, out-of-competition with UKAD.
“This whole charge that they were for a rider, I don’t think anyone was in that game for doing s*** like that, or stupid enough. You’d get caught the amount of times you were tested.
“What needs to happen now is to alleviate this assumption that it must have been for a rider. Not necessarily. It might have been for a staff member…it might have been for someone from another sport. Who knows.
“Was it a mistake? Apparently, it was. Then it should be easy to substantiate.”
Freeman has continued to protest his innocence saying “I have never doped a rider in my life” but is now subject to a UK Anti-Doping investigation.
