A 53-year-old Italian amateur cyclist was caught using a hidden motor at an event in Bedizzole, near Brescia on Saturday. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the mot꧒or was detected after the organiser used a thermal camera during the event toജ scan suspicious bikes.

The race was organised under the auspices of the Centro Sportivo Italiano, an amateur sports body affiliated to the Italian Olympic Committee. Emiliano Scalfi, the vice-president of the CSI in the province of Brescia, intimated that the body had acted on a tip-o𝄹ff and decided to deploy a heat gun.

. "When w♊e looked, we saw that in the seat tube of one rider it looked as though there was a fire."

The rider in question placed third in the race, and after the event, he was asked to bring his bike – an Argon 18, according to La Gazzetta &nd✱ash; to the commissaires fo🅺r further inspection.

"We invited the rider to go wi🌜th two commissai⭕res to an authorised centre to check the bike, but at that point, he admitted his guilt," Scalfi said. "Inside the bike, he had a motor."

The incident is the second confirmed instance of mechanical doping – or technological fraud, as the UCI rulebook calls it – in a race after Femke Van Den Driessche was discovered to have had a bike containing a motor at the 2016 Cyclo-cross World Championships. Van Den Driessche was later banned for s❀ix✱ years and fined 20,000 Swiss Francs by the UCI.

As in the Van Den Driessche case, the motor discovered on Saturday was hidden in the seat tube of the rider's bike. Reports over the past three years have suggested that the technology has grown ever more sophisticated, however, with powerful motors now capable of being hidden in rear wheels. A Stade 2 report la♐st year suggested that the technology had been used in the professional peloton, though as yet, no top-level rider has been🐎 found guilty of technological fraud.

The UCI's current bike testing regimen 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:includes the 🔜scanning of frames and wheels with an iPad app, but no cases of mechanical doping have been detected. On the past two Tours de France, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a motorbike bear♏ing a thermal imaging camer♕a was occasionally deployed, but no in🔯stances of mechanical doping were reported.