THE KEY PLAYERS

SIR DAVID BRAILSFORD

The highly successful former performance director of British Cycling, 54, was awarded a knighthood in 2013 but was last night fighting for his job as general manager of Team Sky.

SHANE SUTTON

Brailsford’s right-hand man, the 60-year-old Australian left his role as technical director at British Cycling in 2016 after claims he oversaw a ‘culture of fear’.

SIR BRADLEY WIGGINS

The 37-year-old five-time Olympic champion and first British winner of the Tour de France is fighting to clear his name after his use of triamcinolone was branded ‘unethical’.

Dr RICHARD FREEMAN

The former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor administered the contents of the mysterious ‘Jiffy bag’ package in 2011 and is the subject of an ongoing GMC investigation.

LORD COE

The double Olympic champion, 61, finds himself accused of ‘misleading’ MPs in his role as president of world athletics body the IAAF.

SIR MO FARAH

Questions remain over the four-time Olympic champion’s use of a controversial supplement before his 2014 London Marathon debut. The England football team doctor’s failure to keep detailed medical records while working at UK Athletics was labelled ‘inexcusable’.