New UCI President David Lappartient has promised to bring mechanical doping’s time as a hot topic in cycling to an end. Speaking with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Lappartient promised tighter controls to remove suspicions that the UCI is not up to the task of rooting out possible fraud.
“We don’t want technological fraud to continue as a hot topic,” Lappartient told the newspaper. “An investigation has recently been opened in France. There hasn’t been a lot of trust in the UCI’s strategy, and that generated suspicions. With tighter, more efficient controls we can protect the riders and their image.”
Belgian U23 cyclo-cross rider Femke Van den Driessche is the only athlete to have been sanctioned by the UCI for mechanical doping to date, and she was handed a six-year ban after a motor was discovered in one of her bikes at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
ADVERTISEMENT
In July of this year, a 53-year-old amateur rider was caught using a motor at a race near Brescia in Italy, while a 43-year-old French amateur was found to have used a motor in a race in the Dordogne last month.
Read more:
- 139 mechanical doping checks carried out at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- UCI continue checks for mechanical doping at Tirreno-Adriatico - News Shorts
- UCI checks all Tirreno-Adriatico time trial bikes for mechanical doping
- UCI check ten teams for mechanical doping at Paris-Roubaix
As yet, there have been no confirmed cases of mechanical doping at the professional level on the road, and Lappartient downplayed the idea that cheats might already be several steps ahead of the testers.
- Mechanical doping inventor says UCI obstructed police attempts to find cheaters at this year's Tour de France - October 13, 2016
- Mechanical doping inventor promises major revelation in January - December 16, 2016
- CBS 60 Minutes investigates mechanical doping in professional cycling - December 28, 2016
- Tour de France to continue thermal imaging checks for mechanical doping - January 17, 2017
- CBS 60 minutes to broadcast investigation into mechanical doping on Sunday - January 27, 2017
- Claims of mechanical doping at the Tour de France in CBS 60 Minutes investigation - January 30, 2017
- Bruyneel blasts LeMond for 'obsession' with Armstrong and mechanical doping - February 8, 2017
- 53-year-old amateur rider caught using hidden motor at Italian race - July 30, 2017
- Italian amateur denies using mechanical doping - July 31, 2017
- Report: Four ways to hide motor doping in a race bike - August 1, 2017
- Doubts raised over effectiveness of UCI tests for mechanical doping - September 3, 2017
- UCI's mechanical doping tests called into question - Video - September 4, 2017
- UCI defends mechanical doping testing procedure - September 4, 2017
- French veteran rider reportedly caught using mechanical doping - October 2, 2017
- French veteran racer defends his use of mechanical doping - October 3, 2017
- Madiot: Lappartient must follow through on mechanical doping promises - October 3, 2017
- Lappartient: I need to be sure there's no mechanical doping - October 20, 2017
- Lappartient pledges more stringent testing against mechanical doping - November 7, 2017
- Gaimon calls Cancellara mechanical doping accusations a 'red herring' - November 8, 2017
- UCI to investigate Gaimon's Cancellara mechanical doping accusations - November 9, 2017
You can read more at Cyclingnews.com
via Cyclingnews Latest News http://ift.tt/2zmpQEf
No comments:
Post a Comment