- GMC case summary against Dr Freeman begins
- ‘We submit there is a pattern of lies to protect himself’
The former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman “crossed the line and went way beyond it” by purchasing banned testosterone for an unnamed rider – and then used a “pattern of lies” to cover up his tracks, a fitness-to-practice medical tribunal was told on Friday.
Beginning the summing up of the General Medical Council’s case against Freeman, Simon Jackson QC painted a picture of an ambitious doctor driven to take risks – and prepared to break anti-doping rules to succeed. “There is a truism in life that it isn’t the lie that gets you, it’s the cover-up. And what a cover-up it has been,” Jackson said.
