Mary O'Rourke, attorney for Richard Freeman, former doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, alleged that British Cycling's current coach covered up Shane Sutton's past doping violations.

This claim was part of a series of questions O'Rourke attempted to pose to Sutton in cross-examination.

O'Rourke outlined the questions he planned to ask Sutton at Tuesday's medical court hearing, which is assessing Freeman's fitness to practice medicine. The Press Association reports that the allegations and questions will be treated as "assertions, not evidence."

According to a report in The Guardian, O'Rourke specifically alleged that the current British Cycling coach gave Sutton a soda can filled with urine in an attempt to break a doping test during the Tour of Ireland. She said the two were caught and the team withdrew from the race to prevent the issue from being pursued.

The Guardian reported O'Rourke's further claim that Sutton had taken drugs in a McDonald's bathroom in Edinburgh around the time of the 1986 Commonwealth Games. She also confessed to Dr. Freeman that Sutton had been using amphetamines as a rider and stated that she used her partner's phone to lash out at Dr. Freeman after he blocked her number.

Sutton stated that he never tested positive.

Sutton is the former head coach of Team Sky and British Cycling and was one of the key witnesses in the medical court hearing evaluating Freeman's fitness to practice medicine.

Sutton was called by the General Medical Council to testify, but walked out of the hearing in November after O'Rourke accused him of "doping" and being a "serial liar" and "bully."

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.

Freeman admitted 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 charge, formally announced by the UK General Medical Council, that he knowingly ordered the test gels for an unnamed athlete to take 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 drugs for personal use to treat erectile dysfunction. Sutton denied the condition and claimed that he had never heard of Testogel until this incident was reported.