Doping

He was telling us that Britain’s top cyclists, famous for the zero-tolerance approach to doping imposed by their managers, are no strangers to substances that become banned.

You make that sound more suspicious than it needs to be. Let's say, for the sake of argument, the BC medical staff issue the riders with a list of approved OTC cold remedies to take if they get the sniffles during the winter. Would it not be wise, under those circumstances, to draw attention to anything which had to be deleted from the list as a result of a change of policy at WADA? Rather than just issue a new list each year and leave it to athlete to pay attention, actually issue a specific bulletin saying that if you have a particular product in your bathroom cabinet, bin it now because it's not on this years approved list.