Jiffy bag

noun

a thickly padded but light envelope in which articles such as books are placed for protection in the post

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What was in a 'Jiffy bag' sent to him via a Team Sky doctor at a race in 2011?

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In 2018, Brailsford appeared before a parliamentary committee to answer questions on the contents of a mystery "jiffy bag" Freeman had instructed be delivered to Wiggins before a 2011 race, amid an allegation it contained the banned anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone.

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Freeman and Brailsford maintained the bag contained legal flu medication, and ultimately a parliamentary committee said it was unable to determine what was inside the jiffy bag.

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The next day a jiffy bag of pens was pushed through the school's letter-box.

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Freeman was at the center of an investigation into a jiffy bag ordered on behalf of former Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine cycle race in France.