Monday 19 December 2016 15:10, UK
Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford says the mystery package at the heart of a UK Anti-Doping investigation contained a decongestant called Fluimucil.
The package was delivered by British Cycling coach Simon Cope to the Team Sky camp at the 2011 Dauphine Libere, one of the key stage races ahead of the Tour de France.
At a Culture, Media and Sport select committee hearing on Monday, chair Damian Collins MP asked British Cycling president Bob Howden, chair of the British Cycling ethics commission Dr George Gilbert, and former Team Sky coach Shane Sutton about the package, but none of the cycling chiefs were able to offer any information.
However, when Brailsford appeared later, he told the committee: "[Team Sky doctor Richard] Freeman told me it was Fluimucil for a nebuliser.
"That was what was in the package. It was what Dr Freeman told me."
Fluimucil is a decongestant used for clearing mucus, which is not banned in or out of competition.
Brailsford was not party to the issue of the package at the time but subsequently launched an investigation and determined the particulars.
He also told the committee that the medical records of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky's lead rider at the event, had been made available to UKAD.
The anti-doping organisation are probing alleged wrongdoing at Team Sky and the package forms part of their investigation.
The Daily Mail has reported that it was delivered on the day Wiggins won the Dauphine Libere, giving him the biggest victory of his career at that point.
It has also emerged that Wiggins was granted therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs), allowing him to take the banned anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, the 2012 Tour, which he famously won, and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
But five-time Olympic champion Wiggins, Brailsford and British Cycling have all strongly denied breaking anti-doping rules.
Brailsford says he takes responsibility for the damaging episode and should have handled the fallout better.
"There's always lessons to be learned and you start with yourself," he said.
"I could have done a lot better quite frankly. They [Team Sky riders and employees] don't deserve to have this shadow cast over them.
"These are people who are performing fantastically well, who don't deserve that, and it pains me that they've had any doubt cast over them because of my actions."
Sutton, who stepped down from his role as British Cycling team director over sexism allegations earlier this year, said he was convinced Wiggins had not broken the rules.
"Knowing the kid for many, many years, as far I'm concerned he never worked outside any rules," Sutton said.
"Given the fact Dave Brailsford was probably the pioneer behind clean cycling and created what is probably the cleanest team in the world, there was no wrongdoing there.
"I can't state strongly enough there was no wrongdoing on any part of Brad and Team Sky."
