KEY PLAYERS IN THE SCANDAL

SIR BRADLEY WIGGINS

FIRST British winner of Tour de France whose victory was tarnished when it emerged he used a medical exemption to take a controversial corticosteroid before the 2012 race. In response to the leaked medical documents, he claimed he had long been an asthma sufferer, despite not even mentioning it in his autobiography. That revelation was then followed by allegations surrounding a medical package dispatched for him a year earlier.

DR RICHARD FREEMAN

NOW former British Cycling team doctor who simultaneously served Team Sky. Failed to keep a record of what was in the jiffy bag and claimed his laptop was stolen on holiday in Greece. Resigned last month after saying he was too ill to speak to British Cycling’s human resources department or UK AntiDoping.

SIR DAVE BRAILSFORD TEAM SKY principal who admits he made the situation a whole lot worse for the road team when he tried to persuade this newspaper not to publish the story about the jiffy bag. He provided two alibis, both of which turned out not to be true. Then he suggested offering this newspaper an alternative story. SIMON COPE

THE courier and former British Cycling coach who claims to have taken medication through UK and French customs without knowing what the package contained. A grilling by MPs in a parliamentary hearing exposed serious flaws in his evidence.