Freeman tribunal pushed back another day

Dr. Richard Freeman ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics
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The medical tribunal examining former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman has suffered a second 24-hour delay in the space of two days and has now been pushed back to Thursday.

With the original hearing in February having been scrapped, the tribunal reconvened last week and introductory statements were made, but the past week has been spent on private discussion of an amendment to one of the allegations against Freeman.

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