http://www.businessinsider.com/bike-investigated-technological-fraud-cycling-world-championships-cyclocross-2016-1 Cycling officials just busted a Belgian rider in the first case of 'bike doping' ever [20160130] Daniel McMahon
[tweets (Dutch>translate.google>English) https://twitter.com/sporza/status/693470192446369793/photo/1 sporza @sporza The Cycling Federation confirms that it is of Femke Van den Driessche. http://sporza.be/permalink/1.2559655 ... #WKzolder 8:25 AM - 30 Jan 2016 https://twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/693486196899647489/photo/1 José Been @TourDeJose The allegedly motorized bike #CXzolder 9:29 AM - 30 Jan 2016 images http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/560408929dd7cc24008bcb51-1520-1328/vasil_kiryienka_uci_bike_check_motor.jpg This photo, provided to Business Insider during the road worlds in September, showed the device used to inspect the inside of Kiryienka's frame / Alexander Bauer/LeXXi Sports http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/56ad0d00c08a8037018bdf13-768-468/bike%20doping%20uci%20rules.png bike doping UCI rules and penalties regarding technological fraud http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/Rulesandregulation/16/26/68/12-DIS-20160101-E_English.pdf videos dated https://youtu.be/twzXs6lxSOs IS THERE A MOTOR ON THE CONTADOR'S BIKE AT THE GIRO D'ITALIA? Cycling Pro May 29, 2015 How can we define the UCI control on the Alberto Contador bike (Giro d'Italia, Stage 18) to check if there is a motor in the frame (why non in the wheels) of is Specialized Tarmac? Sophisticated? Or ridiculous? https://youtu.be/ideiS-6gBAc (rear wheel driving bike after a fall) Hesjedal motor bike? (Doped bike with engine) / Bici a motore? Vuelta 2014 MicheleBufalinoCycling Sep 4, 2014 www.20min.ch said Hesjedal used doped bike. Is it true? http://www.20min.ch/ro/sports/cyclisme/story/Le-v-lo-de-Ryder-Hesjedal-avait-il-un-moteur--17648779 https://youtu.be/8Nd13ARuvVE Bike with engine (doped bike) and Cancellara (Roubaix - Vlaanderen) MicheleBufalinoCycling May 29, 2010 Video done by Michele Bufalino. Subtitles by Alberto Pinsino. in first part of this video Images from Rai but in second part, investigation by Michele Bufalino. This video shows how mechanic doping may be done. Do any professional cyclist use a bike with engine? In the video taken out from RAI, we'll see how the bike works. And we'll analyse recent great performances of Fabian Cancellara in Tour of Flanders and in Paris Roubaix, with images thay may be considered as incontrovertible evidences. ] Cycling officials just busted a Belgian rider in the first case of 'bike doping' ever If confirmed, it is believed to be the first official case of "mechanical doping" or "bike doping," which on social media and in online forums has been long speculated to exist but never officially proved. The International Cycling Union (known by its French abbreviation, UCI), published the following statement: The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) confirms that pursuant to the UCI's Regulations on technological fraud a bike has been detained for further investigation following checks at the Women's Under 23 race of the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. This does not concern any of the riders on the podium. Further details will be shared in due course. A UCI representative later told Business Insider by email that it was sticking to its statement and that its president, Brian Cookson, would address the issue at a press conference on Sunday at 10 a.m. CET. The Belgian site Sporza said the country's cycling federation reported that the bicycle was raced by Femke Van den Driessche. Van den Driessche was among the race favorites, but she was forced to withdraw from the women's under-23 race because of a mechanical problem toward the end. "Our auditors detected mechanical fraud — it quickly became apparent that something was wrong," UCI race coordinator Peter Van den Abeele told Sporza, according to the AFP. But Belgian state television claimed that a small motor had been discovered in the bicycle frame. Sporza also reported that there were "electrical cables" seen coming out of the bike. AFP reported that Belgian coach Rudy De Bie said he was "disgusted." "We thought that we had in Femke a great talent in the making but it seems that she fooled everyone," he told Sporza. Sven Nys, a veteran of cyclocross and one of its best riders, said he was shocked and disappointed. UCI taking 'bike doping' seriously The UCI has been taking the possibility of technological fraud seriously over the past few years. New penalties include disqualification, a suspension of six months, and a fine of up to 200,000 Swiss francs (about $195,000). Teams could be fined 1 million francs (roughly $977,500). Business Insider reported in September from the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia, that the winner of the elite men's individual time trial, Vasil Kiryienka of Belarus, had his bike inspected for a motor after he crossed the finish line. No motor was found. When asked by Business Insider about the inspection in Richmond, the UCI replied: The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) takes extremely seriously the issue of technological fraud such as concealed electric motors in bikes, and has therefore added far-reaching sanctions in its Regulations. We have been carrying out controls for many years and although those controls have never found any evidence of such fraud, we know we must be vigilant. We have carried out several unannounced checks on this year’s Tour de France and other Grand Tours. The 2015 UCI Road World Championships in Richmond is the latest event where bikes have been controlled this season, including all top 3 riders of each race. These are extensive controls and nothing was found. At the 2015 Giro d'Italia, the most important stage race after the Tour de France, an official was shown on video checking eventual race winner Alberto Contador's bike: There are videos on YouTube that purport to show images of mechanical doping, and they show that the matter goes back some time actually. This clip, for instance, shows Canadian Ryder Hesjedal's bike after he wiped out during the 2014 Tour of Spain. His rear wheel appears to keep spinning after the crash, so much so that it whips the bike around on the ground after he himself comes to a stop: The video [above] — which has over 3.8 million views on YouTube — claims to show "how mechanic doping may be done," with images of Swiss pro Fabian Cancellara that "may be considered as incontrovertible evidences." It's important to note that Cancellara and his team denied all of this long ago, and they were never penalized or fined. [© 2016 Business Insider] http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/30/hidden-motor-bike-world-cyclo-cross-championships Rider implicated after motor found on bike at world cyclo-cross championships 30 January 2016 William Fotheringham [image https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/361be61e97834241be55b08e0bac0ed3e30949d8/0_136_3826_2296/master/3826.jpg?w=620&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=722e1ae5a0f87f7e8c83f8b15c4b75d9 Crowds watch the men’s juniors race at the world cyclo-cross championships, where a hidden booster motor was found on a bike reported to belong to the women’s U23 favourite, Femke van den Driessche. Photograph: Tim de Waele/Corbis ] • Inspectors find hidden booster motor in bottom bracket ... Almost six years since the first allegations of “mechanical doping” in cycling, on Saturday a hidden booster motor was finally found in a bicycle being used at a major event, when an inspector at the world cyclo-cross championships in Zolder, Belgium, located a small motor in the bottom bracket of a machine reportedly belonging to the pre-race favourite in the women’s under-23 event, the European champion Femke van den Driessche of Belgium. The gold medal went to the British cyclist Evie Richards, who has the honour of being the first-ever champion in the category. The GB academy rider, who took a silver medal in last year’s junior world mountain bike cross-country title, escaped on the opening lap and remained clear until the death, but her success was overshadowed by the scandal that broke afterwards. The Union Cycliste Internationale said in a statement “that pursuant to the UCI’s Regulations on technological fraud a bike has been detained for further investigation following checks at the Women’s Under 23 race of the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. This does not concern any of the riders on the podium. Further details will be shared in due course.” The Belgian media outlet Sporza reported that the Belgian Cycling Federation had confirmed that the detained bike belonged to Van den Driessche. Ironically, Van den Driessche had abandoned the race due to a mechanical issue shortly before the bike was scrutinised. Van den Driessche’s name did not feature in the official results on the UCI website on Saturday evening. However, the rider’s father told the newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that the bike was not his daughter’s. “It’s not Femke’s bike,” he reportedly said. “Someone from her team, who sometimes trains with her, brought the bike to the pit. But it was never the intention that she would ride it … Femke has absolutely not used that bike in the race. We are strongly affected by what’s happened. Femke is totally upside-down.” The UCI’s head of off-road racing, Peter van den Abeele, said that the governing body had been testing a new detection system, not because it had any particular indication that fraud was going on, but because this seemed a good opportunity. The offence is officially termed “technological fraud” and carries a minimum six-month suspension and a fine of between 20,000 and 200,000 Swiss francs. Rumours of “mechanical doping” first surfaced in 2010, when the Classic and time-trial specialist Fabian Cancellara was forced to defend himself against apparently unfounded allegations that he had mechanical help. At the time, a consultant to the governing body said that he estimated that the use of a small electric motor hidden in the bottom bracket could save between 60 and 100 watts as the rider pedalled, a considerable boost to performance. Not long afterwards the UCI began examining machines on a random basis, using a scanner and later a small camera. There have been high-profile searches for the boosters but nothing has ever been found, as was the case last year at the Tour de France, for example, when half a dozen machines including that of Chris Froome, were examined after the finish of stage 18 through the Alps. 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