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FORMER Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman has pulled out of his muchanticipated appearance before today’s meeting of the UK Culture, Media and Sport select committee.

Freeman emailed the committee’s chairman Damian Collins yesterday to confirm he was too ill to attend the Westminster session on ‘Combating Doping in Sport’.

The doctor was expected to face questions from the panel about a mystery package that was delivered to the end of the Criterium du Dauphine race in France in 2011, won by Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins.

Meanwhile, next year’s Tour de France Grand Depart will take place in the Vendee region of western France, organisers announced yesterday.