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Bobridge, who was forced into retirement last
year because of the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, was
arrested after police raided his home in the western Australian
capital on Wednesday, the ABC reported.
"The investigation led detectives to charge the 28-year-old man
with two counts of sell and supply a trafficable quantity of
MDMA and three counts of sell and supply MDMA," Perth police
said in a statement to the national broadcaster.
Bobridge was bailed to appear at a Perth magistrates court to
face the charges next month, ABC added.
In a highly successful career, Bobridge rode in four versions of
the Giro d'Italia and won the Australian road race national
title for the second time in Ballarat in January 2016.
On the track, he competed in three Olympics, won three world
championship gold medals, four Commonwealth Games titles and
still holds the world record for the 4km individual pursuit with
the time he set in Sydney in 2011.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford)
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