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War on hidden motors goes undercover (www.reuters.com)

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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.

Is this really a thing?

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[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Here's a good podcast about it

Ghost in the Machine

“I truly believe that motors were used to win bike races” - Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France.

In January 2016, 19-year-old Belgian cyclist Femke van den Driessche was ...