Team Sky rider injected himself

I’d have told them if I thought this young man was trying to cheat, but I don’t think he was doing that. It wasn’t just something we decided that we won’t bother saying anything. It was a lot of agonising.”

The failure to report the use of needles – even to inject legal vitamins – is a violation of the UCI’s ban on injections, which was introduced in 2013. It was unclear last night whether the UCI would investigate. Cycling’s world governing body did not return calls asking for comment.

The UCI is authorised to impose a suspension from eight days to six months and/or a fine of 1,000100,000 Swiss francs for a first offence and the rules apply to “any licence-holder found to have committed the violation or to be an accomplice”.

Edmondson told the BBC that he purchased a variety of legal vitamins, and risked giving himself a heart attack by self-administering the medication secretly at night. “I bought butterfly clips, the syringes, the carnitine [a supplement], folic acid, ‘TAD’ [a supplement], damiana compositum, and [vitamin] B12, and I’d inject that two or three times a week,” he said. “Especially when I wanted to lose weight.”

Edmondson says he confessed to the team but alleged there was then a “cover-up”. “They’d have had to say publicly a kid was injecting,” he told the BBC. “Injecting is against the rules.” Peters denied a cover-up. “You are saying there was an intent behind us to conceal and that was never the case,” he said.

Edmondson also admitted to using the painkiller Tramadol during the 2013 Tour of Britain. Team Sky said they had no knowledge of this. Leigh claimed their biggest scalp yet on their return to Super League as they piled on the misery for bottom club Warrington with a 22-8 victory. Former England forward Gareth Hock grabbed two tries as the Centurions followed up their victories over St Helens and Huddersfield with their first win over the Wolves since 1988, to leave last year’s league leaders still looking for their first win of the season. Tymal Mills admits he is still coming to terms with being bought by Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bangalore for £1.4 million, saying he will use the money to buy a house and a present for his mother, Louise. “She won’t take anything off me at the moment, but she’s great, my mum, and she’ll get looked after, definitely,” the fast bowler said. “I need to buy a house, and that will be the first thing. Buy a house outright, so I don’t have to worry about a mortgage, just have to pay my bills, so if all else fails, that sets you up for the rest of your life.”