War on Hidden Motors Goes Undercover

ItsJustAPseudonym shares a Reuters story:The International Cycling Union (UCI) has intensified its fight against mechanical doping, employing intelligence-driven methods to combat increasingly sophisticated alleged cheating in professional cycling. ItsJustAPseudonym adds: They call the use of hidden motors 'mechanical doping'. In 2010 it led to the ban of a rider from Belgium who had a hidden motor in her seat-tube during a cyclocross event.

'It's a bit of a technological arms race. Components are getting lighter, smaller. Easier to conceal, which is harder to detect', according to Nick Raudenski, the UCI Head of the Fight Against Technological Fraud.

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