Kathy LeMond, the wife of three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, says that the UCI is not doing enough to combat the threat of mechanical doping. She believes that if the UCI doesn’t step up their efforts in the fight against mechanical doping, it could pose a serious threat to the future of the sport.
LeMond’s comments come in the wake of allegations against the UCI’s technical director Mark Barfield. Emails obtained by the French television programme Stade 2 apparently showed that Barfield emailed Harry Gibbings -the CEO of Typhoon bikes, who helps the UCI with their testing methods, informing him that the French police were asking questions about someone trying to sell motors at the 2015 Tour de France. It was LeMond who informed Stade 2 of the email exchange, after she was claims she was shown the message from Barfield during the Tour de France.
Last year Greg LeMond called on the UCI to do more to fight the possible use of hidden motors. He told Cyclingnews that heat guns or thermal camera's where the best way to detect hidden motors in races. However the UCI has often been critical of the effectiveness of the devices. The UCI currently uses a expensive tablet device to detect the ‘magnetic flux density’ of motors. The UCI claim it was used successfully to find a motor hidden in the bike of Femke Van Den Driessche.
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However Kathy LeMond thinks that there could be more done to fight what she deems as the ‘greatest threat to cycling.’
“There are loopholes and these cheaters will look for any loopholes. Everything needs to be done to ensure that there are no loopholes. We have to do everything possible,” LeMond told Cyclingnews. “I don’t believe that they are doing everything that they can, and I think that it is the greatest threat to cycling."
“All I’m saying is if they don’t stop it then it will be just like doping… To me, they need to take it seriously and come down so hard so that it’s not an option, that is what has to be done."
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