Richard Freemanwho was a doctor for the Sky team between 2009 and 2015 and was accused of ordering testosterone for doping purposes in 2011, has been handed a four-year suspension, the British anti-doping agency (UKAD) reported on Tuesday .
Freeman, who was provisionally suspended in December 2020, is ineligible for any professional sports-related activity until December 2024.
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The former Sky doctor has been the subject of two UKAD accusations: one for possession of testosterone, a banned substance in cycling, and another “for falsifying or attempting to falsify an element of an anti-doping test”.
Richard Freeman, who was struck off the British medical register in January, admitted 18 of the 22 charges against him but denied the main allegation relating to the subject of an order for Testogel, a hormone treatment used to treat the symptoms associated with the deficiency. testosterone.
He claimed at the time that testosterone was prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction by former performance director Shane Sutton, which Sutton denied.
Tuesday’s sentence “proves that Richard Freeman has breached the United Kingdom’s anti-doping rules,” UKAD executive director Jane Rumble explained on the British agency’s website, adding that “the rules are established to guarantee that the whole world contributes to keeping sport clean and that all athletes are on an equal footing”.
Source: La Verdad

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