Officials check the KTM bikes o𒁏f the Delko Marseille-Provence 𓃲KTM team. (Image credit: Directvelo.com)
Several bikes were subject to inspection by UCI personnel ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 🍌on Saturday, with scanning equipment used to make sure there was no mechanical dopi๊ng at the race.
The UCI staff had a hand-held scanning device, which was used to check for motors that might have been hidden in the frames of bikes. The same device was also used to scan riders' rear wheels, after electromagnetic wheels were said to represent the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:'new frontier' of mechanical duplicity.
The LottoNL-Jumbo team posted a video on Twitter of one of their b💜ikes being checke💃d, which you can watch below.
Mechanical doping, rumoured since around 2010 but without substantial evidence it was going on, became a hugely pressing issue for the UCI and the sport in late January when 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a motor was found in the bike of cyclo-cross rider Femke Van den Driessche. In the aftermath, UCI president Brian Cookson vowed to increase the scale and number of checks at races, u🥂sing more sophisticated technology, saying: "Please don’t🎀 delude yourself that we haven’t been taking this seriously."
