BRADLEY WIGGINS is at the centre of another doping storm.
The British cycling ace, 36, failed to provide drug testers with sufficient information about his whereabouts just three months before winning Olympic gold in Rio. Wiggins claims he was on an overnight flight from California.
But testers have still put a black mark against his name following the incident in May. Athletes risk a two-year ban if they miss three tests in 12 months.
Wiggins is believed to have two other misses to his name, but they were between 2005 and 2009.
It comes only months after he hit out at fellow British rider Lizzie Armitstead, now married and known as Lizzie Deignan, for missing three tests before the Olympics.
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He said at the time: “When you’re a professional athlete and you’re a world champion, there’s no excuse, because it’s your career.”
Two German cyclists slammed Team Sky’s use of sick notes to let Chris Froome and Wiggins take banned drugs.
Marcel Kittel, 28, said: “If someone has severe asthma, he has no place in performance sport.
“We introduced the Paralympics because we wanted to give people with one leg a chance to compete against others.”
Andre Greipel, 34, added: “If you’re sick, you don’t ride.”
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