On Wednesday, the sixth day of a resumed medical tribunal in Manchester, former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman admitted that his laptop was stolen in Greece in 2014 and that last week he used a screwdriver to prevent data from falling into the wrong hands, another Following his revelation that he destroyed the laptop, he admitted that this was the third loss of data in regards to records management.

According to Wednesday's Guardian, General Medical Council (GMC) legal counsel Simon Jackson QC said that after the UCI requested data on Team Sky riders from the 2011 Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, Freeman's email to the UCI It read.

"I have lost my hard drive and a lot of data regarding blood monitoring of athletes in the Giro and tdf (Tour de France). Everything is fine and I will forward a new hard copy from the hospital when it arrives," Freeman wrote in the email.

"This is unfortunately the third time I have lost or broken a hard drive. So what happened? Jackson asked Freeman, according to the Guardian.

"I don't remember this email, but now that I read it, I think it was about access; I didn't lose my hard drive in 2011," Freeman replied.

"If you lost access, you would have said you couldn't access the data," Jackson said. 'Or am I being pedantic?' [said Freeman.

The doctor also admitted Wednesday that he began his work in cycling without much knowledge of past doping incidents in the sport.

"Someone said: 'For God's sake, what do you get involved in cycling for? ' I said: 'It's for the challenge. I didn't realize there were so many landmines,'" Freeman said.

He took on the GMC, contesting four of the 22 allegations and accepting the other 18, but faces termination of his medical registration after the court session.

Freeman admitted ordering testosterone gel from the National Cycling Center in Manchester in 2011 and later destroying it, but disputed the central charge that he ordered it "knowingly or believing" that the banned substance would be administered to athletes. He stated.

He also denied Wednesday that he "went from poacher to gambler" at Team Sky after learning more about past doping cheating in cycling.

According to The Guardian, Freeman said, "I like to think of myself as a gambler for Team Sky. Yes, I would like to know more about inspections and EPO." It was a sharp, steep learning curve at Team Sky. As a gamekeeper, you know? I never considered myself a poacher, so I can't comment as a poacher.'