Richard Freeman said he feels he has been made a scapegoat in a new claim by Shane Sutton about the infamous Jiffy Bag scandal, warning that Freeman, Dave Brailsford, and Bradley Wiggins are "all finished."

Formerly known as "The Boss

A medical tribunal for Freeman, a former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor, continued Monday, with Freeman being questioned about testosterone and triamcinolone and insisting, "I never doped any athlete."

Monday's hearing came after new eyewitness testimony was released by Freeman's lawyers over the weekend. The new testimony reveals that the unregulated medical treatment of staff members was "considered a small benefit," and claims that former coach Sutton leaked the Jiffy Bag story in apparent retaliation for Freeman's perceived involvement in his "downfall."

In April 2016, Sutton resigned from British Cycling, having been suspended over an investigation into allegations of discrimination.

Subsequently, a jiffy bag was couriered from the National Cycling Center to a Team Sky bus at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphiné, containing triamcinolone, which is banned without a TUE, and was allegedly administered to Bradley Wiggins It was revealed through the Daily Mail that the bag allegedly contained triamcinolone, which was banned without a TUE, and administered to Bradley Wiggins. Brailsford later claimed that the drug contained the legal asthma drug Fluimucil, but this was never confirmed, and British Anti-Doping was forced to close the investigation due to a lack of medical records.

"In September 2016, I received several phone calls from him in an agitated state, blaming me for his downfall. On the last call he told me that he had spoken to a journalist who was trying to publish an article about illegal injections performed on a bus in Sestriere in 2011 and that we were done. He said it was about me, Sir Dave Brailsford, and Sir Bradley Wiggins. I was devastated. I blocked his phone number," Freeman revealed in a new statement, according to The Guardian.

"Shortly after, he called me from his partner's cell phone. She had earlier asked for medical advice and I answered it. Shane Sutton was ranting and threatening, so I hung up and blocked the number."

When the Daily Mail story ran in October 2016 regarding the 2011 race in Sestriere, I was not surprised that the allegations were made about me and I assumed Shane Sutton was the source of the information."

Freeman attributed Sutton's complaint to the British Cycling board for what he called "misuse of British Cycling's resources." Freeman alleged that Sutton received £6,000 in cosmetic dental work from the organization's dentist, funded a masseuse's three-year physiotherapy degree, and provided free MR scans to staff families.

"We now recognize that these whistleblowing attempts would very likely have been reported to Mr. Sutton, which would have resulted in further damage to our relationship," Freeman said.

"This was later confirmed by an email from Mr. Sutton "resending" to British Cycling from UK Sport a whistleblower letter about himself (which UK Sport treated as a complaint and sent back to British Cycling) that he mistakenly thought I or Phil Burt had sent."[19 I was reminded of this when he showed me the trail of the "I'm sorry." He confronted both of us together and stated that he knew it was one of us and would seize our laptops and cell phones to prove it. Both Phil and I were shocked by his outbursts and threats made during that intimidating exchange"

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According to the BBC, Freeman said Sutton demanded that he confess to being a whistleblower, adding: "When I refused, he said it was over.

When court resumed on Monday, Freeman, who is accused by the General Medical Council (GMC) of ordering the banned drug testosterone "knowingly or believing it was for the benefit of the athletes", was scapegoated in the British Cycling and Team Sky debacle He was asked if he felt he had been made a scapegoat.

"On second thought, I have no sense of entitlement. According to the Press Association, "I made a medical error, which I acknowledge. I don't believe I was the target of Jiffygate. So I feel I've been made a scapegoat."

On Monday, Freeman was questioned by the GMC about his testosterone and triamcinolone use. Referring to his time at Bolton Wanderers Football Club, he described looking for signs of lack of recovery as the "Holy Grail," but shot back when it was suggested that he was looking for low testosterone levels for the purpose of artificially elevating testosterone levels.

"I find such allegations and summaries offensive. 'I have never doped athletes. I have never even considered it. I never considered supplementing testosterone at any time."

Similarly, he denied that Sutton ever bullied him into doping riders. 'He never encouraged riders to dope. I had problems with Mr. Sutton and I still have a fear of him. Mr. Sutton has never encouraged me to dope."

Mr. Sutton has never encouraged me to dope.

As for triamcinolone (a corticosteroid), Freeman denied that it was a performance-enhancing drug, noting that he was given several TUEs by the British Anti-Doping Agency for allergic rhinitis in 2010. According to Sean Ingle of The Guardian, "Pseudoscientists and ex-dopers often talk about TUEs. I don't put much faith in their views."

Freeman insisted that he never crossed the "line," the title of his 2018 book, and was firm in his treatment of athletes, but acknowledged shortcomings in his treatment of British Cycling and Team Sky staff.

In new witness statements, Freeman admitted that his administration of free medication to 17 staff members (including triamcinolone injections for Brailsford, steroid pellets for another staff member, and blood pressure medication for a rider's wife) was beyond his duty of care.

According to the "BBC," "I could not refuse a call for help. He now accepts that he should only respond to staff, family and friends in an emergency."

Freeman argued that this was the result of an already existing culture in which such treatment was "seen as of marginal benefit to the management team." He pointed to Medical Director Steve Peters as "a promoter of autonomy that led to professional isolation" and further claimed that Peters demanded that his own treatment not be recommended to GPs.

"At the London 2012 Games, he instructed us to use our own clinical facilities in our accommodation wing, using our own equipment, instead of using that provided by the British Olympic Association [BOA]," Freeman said. This institutionalized attitude continued until Rio 2106 and did not foster a good relationship between BC [British Cycling] and the sports medicine facilities of the BOA or the EIS [English Institute of Sport]."

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