FREEMAN’S FALL
May 16, 2011
As doctor for British Cycling and
Team Sky, Freeman orders 30 Testogel sachets from Fit4Sport to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester.
Feb 28, 2017
Freeman fails to report to the Parliamentary committee hearing into doping, claiming he is too ill to attend.
Oct 20, 2017 Freeman resigns from Team Sky, citing ill-health.
Oct 28, 2019
Start of Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing to investigate whether Freeman ordered the sachets for an athlete, if he lied when claiming to UKAD he ordered the sachets in error and subsequently returned them to Fit4Sport and if he took precautions to protect his medical records. He admits to 18 of 22 charges including that he asked Fit4Sport to state that the sachets were sent in error but says Shane Sutton bullied him into ordering Testogel for the GB coach’s erectile dysfunction and not for athletes, which Sutton denies.
Oct 7, 2020
Freeman claims he had not read the World Anti-Doping Agency’s rules on ordering Testogel and thought it would be permitted for nonathletes. He then admits he destroyed the sachets and that he damaged his laptop containing key medical records before turning it in to the General Medical Council in 2019, but that he has ‘nothing to hide’.
Feb 12, 2021
UKAD charge Freeman with two anti-doping violations: possession of a prohibited substance and tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control. He admitted the tampering charge.
Mar 12, 2021
Medical practitioners tribunal concludes that Freeman ordered testosterone knowing or believing it was to dope a rider. The hearing will resume on March 17.