Sapstead says that from records Ukad have seen relating to Triamcinolone, more product was ordered than was needed to administered the TUEs (Thereputic Use Exemptions) which Dr Freeman administered to Sir Bradley Wiggins.

"Yes. Specifically in relation to Bradley Wiggins there was far more than," she says.

"I can't speculate about how it used and whether it is used in or out of competition. My understanding is Triamcinolone is considered, not a serious product, but you don't treat conditions with it lightly. 

"For that reason you would either think there was an excessive amount of it for one person or quite a few people had a similar problem.

"It's difficult because of a lack of records to see what duration these orders were lasting for."

Nicole Sapstead, Chief Executive, UK Anti-Doping:  "Dr Freeman wore two hats. He wore the hat as employee within British Cycling but he was also employed by Team Sky as the Team Sky doctor. 

"We have seen invoices and records that indicate when he was ordering medical products he was wearing one of those two hats. 

"When those medicine and products were delivered they were all delivered primarily to the Manchester Velodrome. They were kept in one area and there was no segregation of the products that were designated for British Cycling, as opposed to Team Sky. 

"Neither, from what we have obtained, do we have any clear records of what was going in and out of that medical supply and how those various products were being administered."

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Nicole Sapstead says that the lack of medical records have caused a problem for her organisation.

"In the first instance we have met with a degree of resistance, I understand why with doctor-patient confidentiality, but it has caused a delay to our efforts and we have had to find various routes around wanting to access individuals' record.

"It is my understanding doctors are expected to keep as contemporaneous as possible records of treatments they are giving to their patients."

Nicole Sapstead says that there are no records of any treatment during the course of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine

"Our inquiries have established Dr Freeman kept medical records on a laptop," she explains. "He was meant to, according to Team Sky policy and a policy that other doctors followed, to upload the medical records onto a Dropbox that all doctors had access to. 

"He did not do that for one reason or another. In 2014 we had been informed his laptop had been stolen while he was on holiday in Greece and that's why we've not been able to access those records."

Sapstead: "We have received one account of what was in the package, that was that the package contained Fluimucil - not a prohibited substance and used for treatment of build up of mucus, common in endurance sports.

"No one has any recognition of what was put in the package.

"We have asked for inventories and medical records to confirm that, but have not been able to ascertain that because there are no records."

Next up to face the committee is UK Anti-Doping boss Nicole Sapstead.

Cope is questioned as to whether he was put in a difficult position by British Cycling and whether his reputation has been damaged.

"Potentially, yes," he says. "I have told you all I know. Any job I was asked to do, I would do it.

"My role was not full-time so I was trying to secure a job so any little job I was asked to do, I would do."

Cope said that he had never seen what was described as 'dodgy' substances given to an athlete but that he had heard gossip during his career.

However, he insisted that there was no cheating in British Cycling.

"I've never heard anything at all," he said. "No rumours, no gossip. Team Sky and British Cycling have zero tolerance. I totally believe that is their philosophy.  

"In the sport in general I would believe there are some people that cheat, yes. I say that in general sport. I believe there is people in cycling who do cheat. I'm not saying British Cycling, I'm saying cycling as a whole.

"There's been systematic doping within the Soviet Union, hasn't there? That's come out. I would say individual riders potentially would take the risk because there is financial gain. As for British Cycling, I've never seen it."

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More from Cope: "If something is being made up for you to be given to the doctor you assume the doctor has ordered it. Shane Sutton did not say it was for the doctor. He said can you pick it up and give it to Richard Freeman. He was the doctor at British Cycling."

Cope is asked what would sometimes be in packages which are transported? 

"It could be licences, every rider needs a licence," he says.

"If a guy in the street gave me a package I think I would be suspicious. But this is our national governing body, I had no reason to be suspicious at all.

"I don't know whether it was normal practice, I was just asked to take the package and didn't know what was in it.

"i didn't think it was anything to worry about. I trusted my colleagues."

BBC Sport journalist Richard Conway is one of those listening to the hearing.

Cope is asked if Dr Freeman gave him the the impression that he knew what was in the package? 

"I just gave it to him and I assume he said thank you like most common, decent people would. 

"I didn't think it was anything untoward, anything secret, anything underhand. it was just like me handing a bit of paper like you guys have been handing paper around now."

Cope denies that his failure to ask what was in the package was not because of a culture of fear.

"I just didn't ask. You might think I'm stupid or whatever," he says.

"I had a role in 2010 that was a full-time role. I suddenly moved into a role that I could see down the line and that did happen, I was made redundant. I was doing everything possible to keep people happy. What would you do?"

Cope is asked whether he was questioned at airport check-in about whether he packed the bag himself and whether he may have misled the check-in staff.

"I can't remember if I'm honest but probably yes and I said yes," he says.

Cope is asked whether he should have asked questions about the contents of the package.

"I would probably have asked what was in the package, but at the time I didn't think it was untoward," he says.

"The other day I drove down to Spain with 40 boxes in the car. I presumed they were helmets. We do travel from A, B and C with a lot of stuff."  

Cope: "It is normal in our world [bringing back bikes]. If you understand the sport we are in people do unusual thing, like flying detergent out to a race because one rider is allergic to it."

He also confirms that he gave the package to the doctor.

Cope also says that when he gave the package to the doctor, that was the last he saw of it.

He also said that he didn't ask what was in the package.

"No. Why would i ask if there was anything untoward. Its a national governing body, why would I question the integrity of our governing body? I didn't ask."

Cope is asked, given his experience as a former cyclist and ex-British Cycling employee, if he was the most over-qualified delivery boy in history.

"I was asked to go out in logistical role and that's it," he says. The boss asked me to go and do something. I don't question my boss."

He is also asked what could he undertake in three hours?

"That was for them to decide. I needed to bring Shane back to the airport. I delivered the package to the doctor, helped sort a few bikes here and there. I was under the impression I had to bring some bikes back but that never happened."

Cope says that the package, which was sealed, was left on a desk in the British Cycling office in a little jiffy bag with a little Post-it note saying for Simon for Richard Freeman [former Team Sky doctor]

Cope is asked how the message to deliver the package got to him and why it was him who delivered the package.

"I couldn't remember at the time, but since it, after reading everything, it would have been Shane Sutton who asked me the bring a package out," he tells the committee.

"It could have been via a phone call or a text message.

"I was a gap filler. It could be deliver a package or could you take a bike to someone, could you do this, do that. 

"If you're paying someone a salary you want to get your pound of flesh."