Dr. Ross Tucker joined Monday's Off the Ball to discuss the damning parliamentary report into the antics of Team Sky and their abuse of the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) system
"From my perspective, these revelations are not revelations - they're confirmation more than anything else.
"I think it's helpful when the needle is nudged towards confirming what has been speculated and discussed in the past and I think that's what this report does but there's very little in that report that would come as shock to anyone who has followed this story going back to the initial leak by fancy bear and so forth.
"I think there's progress in the sense that we now have independent formalised confirmation in the form of this report but the fact that Sky abused the TUE system and had attempted to deceive people with their attitude towards certain drugs - none of that should come as a major revelation to anyone unless they really haven't been paying attention."
The uncertainty about the contents of a jiffy bag sent to Bradley Wiggins in 2011 in France and the subsequent attempts to deflect questions about its contents have only led to deeper suspicions about the culture at Team Sky.
Asked if it could be proved that there was triamcinolone in the Jiffy bag and the effects that that information could have, including Wiggins being stripped of his Tour de France title, Dr. Tucker said: "It would be bigger than that because it would mean that a number of people within Sky made a co-ordinated effort to arrange for a banned substance to be sent all the way from Manchester to where Wiggins was and they had proactively gone about doing something they would have had to know was doping so if that were confirmed to be the case - it would be the biggest nail in the coffin.
"As you said though, it remains to this day for me one of the most frustrating things because someone must know what was in it. And every single person who was asked on every single forum and platform has just been met with resistance and denial and obfuscation so it's frustrating and who knows whether that question will ever be answered because the report today - they went as far as they could but they still ran into a dead end," he added.
The full discussion can be heard here:
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