The Medical Practice Tribunal Service hearing over Dr. Richard Freeman's actions in the delivery of 30 bags of test gels, a banned drug, to British Cycling and Team Sky's headquarters in Manchester continued Thursday without Freeman present.

Instead, Dr. Steve Peters, the former medical director of both organizations, took the stand but was unable to answer any questions about why drugs banned in and out of competition were ordered and stored at the facility, or for whom they were used.

Freeman claimed that former technical advisor Shane Sutton ordered the drugs for his personal use, but Sutton denied that claim.

"I don't know what happened here," Peters told the Guardian's Sean Ingle, who live-tweeted the hearing with the BBC's Dan Roan. 'There are two men and obviously one of them is lying. There has to be an answer, but I'm not in a position to say it."

GMC claimed that Freeman ordered testosterone to improve the performance of an unnamed athlete, but Peters also questioned that claim, calling the allegation by GMC a "leap."

"When I started speculating, it seemed so unfair that a great team that had worked so hard for 20 years would come under such a cloud."

"What didn't make sense was that if someone cheated, they wouldn't go through British Cycling's suppliers, who have a paper trail," Peters told The Independent.

"We were aware that we were beating our chests about clean competition. We know how hard the players worked. We were going to have a clean team, and we did. This [the Test Gel incident] overshadowed that.

Questions also focused on the character of Shane Sutton, who flew out of the hearing on Tuesday after being accused of being a "serial liar" and "dope player" during his career in the 1980s and 1990s.

Freeman has admitted to all but four of the General Medical Council's 22 counts of misconduct, all controversial allegations about why he ordered Testogel in 2011.

In his testimony, Freeman claimed that Sutton bullied him into ordering drugs so that he could treat his erectile dysfunction, but Sutton vehemently denied this charge.

In 2016, when a delivery of test gels was discovered as part of a UK anti-doping investigation into the team, Freeman lied to Peters, telling him it was a mistake by the medical supplier and that he returned the delivery.

But after learning of Freeman's lie that the shipment was made in error - a lie that Peters himself repeated to the media in 2017 - Peters "asked him why he lied to me. He said it was for his staff. I said, 'Who,' and he replied, 'Shane.' I didn't ask him why."

When Freeman asked if Sutton told him he was bullied into ordering it, Peters said, "No."

Peters suspected that Sutton had concealed a personal condition that would have been the basis for ordering testosterone. Peters said, "Shane was a very open man and confided a lot to me," and concluded that Freeman must have ordered it for him. He said, "If he had prescribed it to Shane, Shane would have told me."

Peters was told that the package also contained Viagra and reasoned that it could not have been for athletes, since studies have shown that Viagra does not improve sports performance.

According to The Independent, he said, "It would be picked up very quickly. It would be very difficult to do this."

Asked again who he thought ordered the test gel, Peters said, "I feel like I'm being forced to solve a crime. What I'm trying to say is that there is one man who lied to me and another man who I don't trust. I was speculating that it was more likely that Richard [Freeman] used [testosterone] for himself."

Freeman's lawyer then tried to establish the possibility that Sutton had bullied Freeman into ordering the test gel. Peters agreed that Sutton was emotionally unstable and prone to outbursts.

"He could run for two months without incident. It was a repeat of that

"He couldn't control his emotions very well. He gets very intense about standards and performance" Especially during the build-up to the Olympics, British Cycling was under pressure to win medals.