LONDON (Reuters) – Former British Cycling and Team Sky chief medical officer Richard Freeman has been banned from all sport until Dec. 21 next year, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) said on Tuesday.
UKAD said in a statement that the independent National Anti-Doping Panel found Freeman committed rule violations of “possession of a prohibited substance” and “tampering” on two distinct occasions.
The four-year ban was effective from Dec. 22, 2020 — the date of his provisional suspension.
Freeman, who was found guilty of ordering 30 sachets of banned testosterone for a rider in 2011, has been permanently struck off the medical register after losing an appeal last January.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)
