Ineos Carer Facing Doping Probe Worked At Man Utd

The Ineos Grenadiers unit personnel who near nan Tour de France aft being asked to speak to nan International Testing Agency (ITA) astir doping allegations relating to nan 2012 play worked astatine Manchester United past year.

The cycling squad confirmed David Rozman had received an question and reply petition from nan ITA aft initially being contacted successful April, and "stepped back" from Tour duties past month.

The Slovenian is 1 of Ineos' soigneurs, a domiciled that involves moving arsenic an adjunct to riders and providing a scope of services from logistics to massages.

It has now emerged Rozman worked alongside United's soft insubstantial therapists for a 1 period placement successful 2024 arsenic portion of a 'knowledge exchange' aft Ineos proprietor Sir Jim Ratcliffe became co-owner of nan club.

BBC Sport has been told United had nary knowledge of nan precocious published historical allegations and insiders declare they person nary engagement successful them.

United declined to comment. Ineos person been approached for comment.

Ineos Grenadiers, past known arsenic Team Sky, won nan 2012 Tour de France, pinch Britain's Bradley Wiggins claiming nan yellowish jersey, and nan squad went connected to triumph six of nan adjacent 7 editions of nan race.

The cycling squad has confirmed that Rozman was informally contacted successful April 2025 by a personnel of ITA staff, who asked him astir alleged humanities communications, claiming that it past commissioned a reappraisal by an outer rule firm.

In a connection astatine nan clip it said: "The squad has acted responsibly and pinch owed process, taking nan allegations earnestly whilst acknowledging that David is simply a long-standing, dedicated personnel of nan team.

"The squad continues to measure nan circumstances and immoderate applicable developments, and has formally requested immoderate applicable accusation from nan ITA. To day nan squad has received nary grounds from immoderate applicable authority.

"Both David and nan squad will of people co-operate pinch nan ITA and immoderate different authority."

Earlier successful July, nan Irish Independent reported that successful 2012, Rozman had exchanged messages pinch convicted German doping expert Mark Schmidt.

A documentary by German TV institution ARD besides linked Ineos to Schmidt but did not sanction nan unit personnel involved.

In 2021, Schmidt was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months successful jail aft being convicted of administering forbidden humor transfusions to athletes wrong cycling and a number of different sports arsenic portion of Operation Aderlass.

When contacted by BBC Sport, nan ITA said its investigations are "conducted confidentially" and "outcomes whitethorn only beryllium shared if and erstwhile it yields nan pursuit of 1 aliases much anti-doping norm violations."

In June, Ineos head of athletics Sir Dave Brailsford scaled backmost his involvement pinch Manchester United, having antecedently played a cardinal domiciled successful shot operations.

Brailsford stepped down arsenic squad main of Ineos Grenadiers aft Ratcliffe acquired his liking successful United but has returned to a cardinal domiciled astatine nan cycling squad and was coming astatine this year's Tour de France.

The 61-year-old oversaw a sustained play of occurrence astatine British Cycling and Team Sky and became synonymous pinch nan 'marginal gains' theory.

However, his profession has progressive respective controversies.

Dr Richard Freeman - nan erstwhile main medic astatine some British Cycling and Team Sky - was banned from each athletics for 4 years for violating anti-doping rules successful August 2023.

In 2018, Brailsford appeared earlier a parliamentary committee to reply questions connected nan contents of a enigma "jiffy bag" Freeman had instructed beryllium delivered to Wiggins earlier a 2011 race, amid an allegation it contained nan banned anti-inflammatory supplier triamcinolone.

This followed nan revelation Wiggins received therapeutic usage exemptions (TUEs) for triamcinolone to dainty asthma and allergies soon earlier 3 awesome races.

Freeman and Brailsford maintained nan container contained ineligible flu medication, and yet a parliamentary committee said it was incapable to find what was wrong nan jiffy bag.

In a last study successful 2018, nan MPs accused Team Sky of "crossing an ethical line" successful its usage of TUEs much broadly.

Brailsford, British Cycling, Team Sky and Ineos person ever denied immoderate wrongdoing.