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15 Feb ’12
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well that is a different spin on it, lance would have won 20 tours!
Following the earlier news that Belgian under-23 rider Femke Van den Driessche is under investigation over what the UCI has described as technological fraud, further details have emerged about what appears to have been a motor in her bike.
The European champion has been plunged into the scandal after a bike belonging to her was screened in the pits at the race and found to be in violation of the rules.
“Our auditors made checks at the start and during the race in the pit and they have established mechanical fraud,” stated UCI coordinator Peter Van den Abeele to Sporza.
The same publication has now elaborated on the circumstances. Journalist Martin Vangramberen explained how things unfolded.
“After one lap at the world championships the UCI checked Femke’s bike in the pits with some kind of tablet [electronic device – ed]. The bike was immediately sealed and taken away.
“When the saddle of the tube was removed, there were electrical cables protruding from the tube. When they wanted to remove the crankshaft, something that is normally easy, it was not possible because the crankshaft was stuck. The motor was in there.”
He added that the mood in the Belgian camp is very subdued, and that Belgian cycling federation director Jos Smets was seen crying.
more http://cyclingtips.com/2016/01/more-details-emerge-about-motorized-doping-at-cyclo-cross-worlds/
19 Feb ’12
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This video is from 5 years ago. Pretty interesting.
Kind of damning evidence.
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wow, I had no clue
Neither did I. On another forum I frequent, they were saying these types of things "trickle down". So if it's in the women's circuit, it's been on the men's circuit for a while now.
15 Feb ’12
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Wonder if they are going to start x-raying all bikes. I guess the old saying is true, if you ain't cheatin you ain't trying
15 Feb ’12
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lol, even the tour de france
Thermal cameras and other tools that can detect "mechanical doping" — small but powerful motors that boost riders' power levels — will be used in this year's Tour de France, in a change race officials announced just days before the prestigious race's start on July 2.
"This problem is worse than doping," France's Secretary of State for Sports Thierry Braillard tells Le Journal du Dimanche. "This is the future of cycling that's at stake."
The bid to keep professional cycling clean will rely on techniques developed by a large French government agency that also conducts nuclear research. In the Tour de France, the image tests can be done anywhere, officials say — and they add that they won't be publicizing the thermal cameras' locations.
The move is an attack on a method of cheating that had long been suspected but wasn't proven at the sport's highest levels until this year. If cycling still had any trusting and faithful fans in January of 2016, the scales fell from their eyes when Belgian Femke Van den Driessche, a promising 19-year-old cyclocross rider, was found to be using a motor during the U-23 World Championships.
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