Former British Cycling doctor banned for four years for breaking anti-doping rules

Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman has been banned from all sport for four years for violating anti-doping rules.

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) said he had 30 sachets of a testosterone gel delivered to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester in 2011 and then lied about it.

The watchdog said the decision to ban him was made in July.

Freeman was in his role at British Cycling and what was Team Sky when Bradley Wiggins became Britain’s first Tour de France champion in 2012, a time when British cycling soared to the top of the cycling world.

The Testogel that Freeman ordered is prescription-only medication and banned under anti-doping rules as it contains testosterone.

Freeman told UKAD he had ordered the gel for a “non-rider” member of the British Cycling staff – but refused to name the person due to patient confidentiality.

He claimed he’d asked them several times to waive their confidentiality but they had refused.

In 2021, Freeman was also struck off the medical register after a tribunal ruled he knew or believed the gel was actually to be given to a rider.

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