The former chief doctor of Team Sky and British Cycling, Richard Freeman, has failed in a high court appeal against being struck off and now faces a UK Anti-Doping investigation.
Freeman was removed from the medical register in 2021 after being found guilty of ordering 30 sachets of banned testosterone to the National Cycling Centre, “knowing or believing” it was for an unnamed rider to improve their performance. He had appealed against the decision, arguing that a medical tribunal had been wrong to find his former colleague Shane Sutton a “credible and consistent witness” after he had stormed out of the original hearing.
