Former British Cycling and Team Sky physician Richard Freeman has been banned from all sport for 4 years for violating anti-doping guidelines.
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) stated he had 30 sachets of a testosterone gel delivered to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester in May 2011 and lied about it.
The watchdog stated the National Anti-Doping Panel resolution to ban him was made in July.
Freeman was in his position at British Cycling and what was Team Sky when Bradley Wiggins turned Britain’s first Tour de France champion in 2012, a time when UK biking soared to the highest of the game.
The Testogel that Freeman ordered is a prescription-only remedy and banned beneath anti-doping guidelines because it accommodates testosterone, which might enhance efficiency.
Freeman instructed UKAD he ordered the gel for a “non-rider” member of British Cycling workers, however refused to call them resulting from affected person confidentiality.
He stated he had requested them a number of instances to waive their confidentiality however they refused.
However, UKAD stated this was false, as was his declare the gel had been returned to the provider.
In 2021, Freeman was additionally struck off the medical register after a tribunal dominated he knew or believed the gel was meant for a rider to enhance their efficiency.
During that tribunal, he additionally admitted destroying a laptop computer with “a screwdriver or blunt instrument” earlier than giving it to consultants to look at.
He misplaced a High Court enchantment in opposition to being struck off in January.
The newest resolution by the anti-doping panel stated it was happy Freeman had “intended to make available to one or more of his athletes the prohibited substance delivered to the Manchester Velodrome”.
His ban run from 22 December 2020, when he was provisionally suspended, to 21 December 2024.
British Cycling chair Frank Slevin stated the organisation had supported the investigation and that Freeman’s conduct “bore no resemblance to the high ethical and professional standards which we, our members and our partners rightly expect”.
Source: information.sky.com”