British Cycling Success Tainted

Cycling has a history of drug cheaters so it is no real surprise that the doctor at the head of British Cycling, Richard Freeman, has been found guilty of  ordering testosterone in 2011 and passing it on to an unnamed rider although that shouldn't be so hard to work out because there was an investigation into a very famous British cyclist receiving a 'medical package' just before the 2011 Tour De France.  
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee said at the time that they were leading an investigation into it and that British Cycling have been able to provide a paper trail of how the package delivered to Bradley Wiggins was unable to provide give details of exactly what was inside the package.
Wiggins and all the other parties involved maintained that the mystery parcel contained fluimucil, a legal decongestant although the awkward question was asked why it it sent 400 miles to France when it could be purchased at local chemists although the investigation fell apart as they were unable to access any evidence to determine the case either way.
Freeman had already admitted to 18 of 22 charges leveled against him, including ordering 30 sachets of Testogel gel, lying to investigators and multiple failures in keeping and losing records.
The man who was British Cycling president at the time of Dr Freeman reign released a statement saying that he was: 'tremendously disappointed and saddened at the verdict' and the damage that his actions have done to cycling but it calls into question the golden era of British cycling over the past decade including Tour de France wins and the 8 Golds, 2 Silvers and 2 Brone medals at the 2012 Olympics and the 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 2 Brone at the 2016 event.  
That Freeman was working for British Cycling between 2009 and 2017 and at the dominant Team Sky between 2009 and 2015 dovetails a bit too neatly with the period of Britain’s cycling success.