Bradley Wiggins finally breaks silence on doping allegations

Sir Bradley Wiggins is the subject of doping allegations Tim De WaeleMVH/Tim De Waele/Corbis via Getty Images

Five-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins has hit back at doping allegations but has predicted future developments will further "shock a few people."

The 36-year-old Londoner stands accused of being injected with triamcinolone, a powerful corticosteroid, at the end of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine race but insists he is a man of "integrity."

Speaking to Sky Sports, Wiggins said: "It's been horrible, but fortunately there is an investigation going on. It's the worst thing to be accused of when you're a man of my integrity, if you like, what I believe anyway, and what I've done to get where I am today.

"Fortunately there's an investigation and I obviously can't say too much because that will run its course and then I'll have my say. There's a lot to say and it's going to shock a few people."

Wiggins' former team, Team Sky -- winners of four of the last five Tours de France -- has also been the subject of a wider UK Anti-Doping investigation.

Thanks to the Fancy Bears computer hackers, it emerged last September that Wiggins was given permission for jabs of the otherwise-banned drug before his three biggest races in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The now-retired rider did not have permission to use it at the Dauphine, though.

Central to the mystery surrounding what happened at the Dauphine is the claim that Dr Richard Freeman, the former Team Sky medic, cannot find any records to prove he actually gave Wiggins a legal decongestant called Fluimucil because he failed to follow team policy by sharing those records with colleagues. He then lost his laptop on holiday three years later.

The Press Association contributed to this report