Team Sky boss claims mystery package was a decongestant

After 10 weeks of damaging silence and two hours of often confusing interrogation, Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford revealed the answer to one of the hottest questions in British sport: Fluimucil, an over-the-counter decongestant.

Brailsford was responding to a question from Damian Collins, the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) select committee, and it came after Collins assured the cycling boss he had permission to answer questions about a package taken to Team Sky’s doctor at the end of the 2011 Dauphine Libere, a key Tour de France warm-up race.

That package, delivered by British Cycling employee Simon Cope and intended for use by star rider Bradley Wiggins, has been the subject of a UK Anti-Doping investigation into alleged “wrongdoing” ever since the story was revealed in October.