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The USA television show CBS 60 minutes has confirmed it will broadcast an investigation into 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:mechanical doping in cycling on Sunday, exactly one year after a rudimentary hidden motor was found at the 2016 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI cyclo-cross wꦐorld championships.

CBS 60 Minutes is famous for its investigative reporting and has won over 100 Emmy awards. For the report into mechanical doping, CBS reporter Bill Whitaker travelled to Hungary last summer to speak to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Istvan Varjas, who showed him how hꦿe makes his commercial mechanical doping motor sy🍒stems. Greg LeMond and others were also interviewed about the issue.

Varjas spoke to the French newspaper 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Le Monde in mid-December and hinted about the US television investigation, with the French newspaper suggesting the revelations could have as big an impact as the Festina Affair, which exposed wide-spread doping in the peloton and almost brought the Tour de France to a halt in🧸 1998.

Varjas confirmed that he sold one of his first motor p♔rototypes at the end of 1998, and as ꦜpart of an agreement he could not talk about the technology or continue to develop it for 10 years.

In its online presentation for Sunday's programme, 60 minutes suggests that Varjas was paid $2 million. Asked whether he belie𝔍ves hidden motors like his haveꦉ been used since then, he answered: "I think. Yes."

Varjas dismissed any responsibility for mechanical doping in professional cycling, telling 60 Minutes "If a gr🍸andfather came and buys a bike and after it goes to... his grandson who is raci🐎ng, it's not my problem."

Asked if he would sell a motor to a person who told him he was going to cheat with it, he re🍌plied: "If the money is big, why not?"

In October, when ൲rumours of the CBS 60 Minutes investigation first emerged, Lance Armstrong denied ever using mechanical doping during his career. When quizzed by Ger Gilroy of the Irish Off the Ball radio show. Armstrong said: "Are you out of your mind൲? I know its topical but are you crazy?"

He later told Le Monde: "I've never put a motor in my bike and I've never met Varjas." Other big-name riders in professional racing hav�🔜�e also denied mechanical doping.

More on this story:

• 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mechanical doping: A brief history
• CBS 60 Minutes investiga꧂tes mechanical🦹 doping in professional cycling
• Femke Van den❀ Driessche denies using motor at cyclo-cross World C🌺hampionships
• 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:What is mechanical doping?
• ♓UCI refutes mechanical doping allegations, Motors in use since⛄ 1999? A 'big story' coming soon

The history of mechanical doping 

Suspicions of mechanical doping first emerged in 2010, with further reports focusing on several mysterious bike changes and high cadences on climbs during major races, i♊ncluding Grand Tours. The UCI discovered one case of mechanical doping involving the bike of Belgian Under-23 rider Femke Van den Driessche at the UCI ๊Cyclo-Cross World Championships. She was later banned for six years.

The UCI has introduced ♈simple bike checks using a tablet de𒀰vice to detect the magnetic fields that are created by mechanical doping.

Last spring the French television show Stade 2 and Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera carried out a detailed investigation into mechanical doping and used a heat gun to claim that hidden motors had been used in several races. There are reports that motors have become old hat, with hidden magnets in wheels now the cutting edge of 🦩mechanical doping. These are reported to cost 200,000 Euro.

The UCI played down the investigation but was forced to up its controls and also began to use x-rays and heat guns at the Tour de France. French police also investigated during the Tour de France but their powers were limited. A motor has never been discovered in a professional ro♐ad race.

Greg LeMond has spoken to Cyclingnews several times about the use of hidden motors and suggested that heat guns should be ⛎used. He also spoke to 60 Minutes.

"This is curable. This is fixable. I don't trust it until they figure out... how to take the motor out. I won't trust🌜 any victories of the Tour de France," 60 minutes repo𝔉rt LeMond as saying.