According to the BBC, Richard Freemen was outraged by weekend reports and did not attend the resumed medical tribunal on Monday. The medical tribunal assessing Richard Freemen's fitness to practise medicine, a former doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, decided last week to admit Shane Sutton's evidence and was considering postponing the hearing.

The hearing is scheduled to conclude on December 20, but may be carried over into the New Year.

The BBC reported that Freeman's lawyer, Mary O'Rourke, said that her client had been prescribed ski leave by her doctor and would not be able to attend court if the hearing were extended until the New Year. O'Rourke said that the corresponding media coverage "pained Freeman."

"He was supposed to be with us today, but as a result of being upset about what was reported over the weekend, he was unable to come," O'Rourke added, according to a BBC report.

Freeman has accepted 18 of the 22 charges, including ordering 30 bags of banned substance test gel and lying to UK Anti-Doping in an attempt to cover it up. He denies the accusation, which was formally announced by the UK General Medical Council, that he ordered the test gels knowing that the unnamed athletes were taking trace amounts of testosterone.

Freeman's lawyers are trying to have the remaining four charges dismissed. Freeman argued that the test gels were for Sutton, the former head coach of Team Sky and British Cycling.

Freeman alleged that Sutton bullied him into ordering the pills for personal use to treat erectile dysfunction. Sutton denied the condition and claimed that he had never heard of Testogel until the incident was reported.

Sutton walked out of a medical court hearing in November after O'Rourke accused him of "doping," being a "serial liar," and being a "bully."

The next day, Freeman also failed to appear at the medical court hearing, citing an "adverse reaction" to his cross-examination the previous day.

O'Rourke wanted Sutton's testimony ignored as incomplete, but the tribunal ruled to admit Sutton's evidence, according to a BBC report on Friday.

O'Rourke also asked the tribunal to explain its earlier cross-examination of Sutton and whether the panel felt she had bullied Sutton.

Chair Neil Dalton confirmed that O'Rourke had not bullied Sutton. However, as reported by the BBC, the panel explained that "Sutton's unwillingness to continue with the cross-examination arose directly from his perception of unfairness and bullying caused by Ms. O'Rourke's approach to him."

Ms. O'Rourke initially stated that she might drop the case if the panel found that she had bullied Sutton, but now intends to continue the case in order to have the four remaining charges against Freeman dismissed.