The UCI has responded to accusations that its tablet device struggles to detect the latest forms of mechanical doping and may throw up false positives by claiming the simple technique of magnetic resistance scanning using a tablet device has “proved to be highly effective both in tests and in actual use".
The UCI claimed that "all stakeholders in cycling have a common interest to demonstrate that cheating has no place in our sport", and provided an email address for anyone to supply information about possible mechanical doping.
The effectiveness of the UCI’s tablet device has been doubted by another investigation from the French Stade 2 television show, with help from German television channel ARD and Italian journalist Marco Bonarrigo who writes for the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
The team of journalists managed to procure one of the UCI tablet devices and had it x-rayed and studied by the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-destructive Testing in Saarbrucken, Germany. Testing indicated a number of false positives for rudimentary motors hidden in the downtube and apparently failed to discover the more advanced electro-magnetic motors hidden in wheels.
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Stade 2 also revealed that the UCI’s tablet application was created by a tiny start-up company based in Britain, called Endoscope-i, which was created on the back of an iPhone app that works as an endoscope.
A political issue
The suspicions of mechanical doping have become a political issue because of the UCI presidential elections scheduled for September 21 at this year’s World Championships. French candidate David Lappartient, who has been the UCI vice-president alongside Brian Cookson for the last four years, was interviewed for Sunday’s Stade 2 show and called for multiple techniques such as x-rays and heat guns and the dismantling of bikes to be used alongside the tablet device to search for hidden mechanical doping.
The UCI responded to the latest accusations by pointing out that Cookson introduced the rules against what is officially called ‘technological fraud’ during his first term as president.
Responding to Stade 2
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