The report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee said Team Sky used the anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone to prepare Britain's most decorated Olympian Wiggins and a smaller group of riders for the Tour de France, which he won in 2012.
Asthmatic Wiggins was granted therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) to take the corticosteroid triamcinolone, which can treat allergies and respiratory issues, shortly before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
But the report says he used it as many as nine times in four years, which Wiggins described as "completely malicious". He added he took it just once out of competition - which is legal - "after the 2013 Giro d'Italia, when I came out with a knee problem".
"I cannot say I know a lot about Brad's use of it in or out of competition," said Sutton, who was also a former technical director for British Cycling.
Source : bbc
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