London - Sir Bradley Wiggins committed a doping blunder - the equivalent of a missed drugs test - less than three months before winning Olympic gold in Rio.
Wiggins failed to give drugs testers sufficient information regarding his whereabouts on one occasion in May this year and registered the third whereabouts failure – or filing failure – of his career.
The other two failures are understood to have occurred between 2005 and 2009.
Wiggins claims he failed to give enough detail about his location because he was on an overnight flight back from California, which is eight hours behind the UK. But doping officers put a strike against the 36-year-old’s name.
If an athlete misses three tests in 12 months they risk a two-year ban.
Wiggins was particularly critical of fellow British rider Lizzie Deignan (nee Armitstead) after Sportsmail revealed she had missed three tests before the Olympics.
Deignan was only allowed to compete after successfully appealing against her first test.
But Wiggins described Deignan’s missed tests as ‘ludicrous’ and said he ‘couldn’t fathom’ how it had happened.
Daily Mail