The long-running fitness to practice hearing relating to the former doctor with Team Sky and British Cycling, Richard Freeman, has concluded he ordered a testosterone product knowing it would be used on an unnamed cyclist to boost performance.
The verdict was announced on Friday by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in Manchester and came after Dr Freeman denied the allegation.
He said former coaching and manager Shane Sutton bullied him into ordering the Testogel to treat erectile dysfunction, which Sutton very strongly denied.
According to The Guardian, chair of the MPTS Neil Dalton
said: “The tribunal had found that you, Dr Freeman placed the order, and
obtained the Testogel, knowing or believing it was to be administered to an athlete
to improve their athletic performance. The motive for your action was to
conceal a conduct.”
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Dr Freeman worked for Team Sky and British Cycling for
over eight years to 2017 and had admitted 18 of the 22 charges against him at
the protracted hearing.
However, he vehemently denied four of the charges, which all related to the delivery of Testogel sachets to the offices of British Cycling and Team Sky in Manchester 10 years ago.
The reaching of the guilty verdict against him will prove very damaging to the reputation of British cycling. Dr Freeman also faces a UK Anti Doping Agency investigation. Furthermore and separately, a decision has not yet been taken on his fitness to practice as a doctor.
More to come.
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