Skyfall: My new investigation into British cycling's dark past begins tomorrow

This story has been 12 years in the making and will change the way you think about the golden age of Team Sky and Team GB

I’m excited to tell you that tomorrow (Tuesday) sees the start of my latest investigative series for Sporting Intelligence.

The story is about an ingrained culture of dopers within the staff at both Team Sky and Team GB during a golden era of British cycling.

It’s a story I started work on 12 years ago. It took five years of investigations before lawyers at the newspaper I was working for at the time were willing to publish any of it. And then, despite mountains of research and hours of interviews, the story was killed at the last minute.

I am now unconstrained by the politics of that “spiking” and for the first time will reveal all I discovered about the doping past of key members of the juggernaut teams that delivered gold and glory for British cycling.

I’ll tell you how - at a time when the figureheads of these teams claimed that they were proof that you could win clean - insiders and whistleblowers were telling me about the hypocrisy, misinformation and obfuscation at the centre of the project. And about the omertà that kept all the secrets secret.

And I’ll examine the implications of all this for the alumni of British cycling’s golden age - including individuals who became sporting superstars.

Like all my investigative series, this reporting will be fully available only to paid subscribers - those readers who support me in this work. Please consider joining them to receive this latest series - starting tomorrow.

In one of the many investigative features I wrote or worked on around drugs in cycling, this piece with Teddy Cutler attempted to map quite how widespread doping was in the EPO era heyday. How on earth did Team Sky think they alone could be clean? Perhaps they never did, they just wanted you to think they were.