[HN Gopher] Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists ...
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       Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny
       motors?
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2025-07-25 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/jwd4K
        
       | treetalker wrote:
       | Not as far as they can tell!
        
       | carlhjerpe wrote:
       | At that level of competition, just keep xraying bikes so it can't
       | become an issue? Drug testing is privacy invasive, having your
       | bike xrayed isn't if you're not cheating.
        
         | jerlam wrote:
         | At the top levels, there isn't much privacy already. In 2007,
         | the GC leader of the Tour was removed from the race because
         | they had lied about their location a month prior. Racers are
         | required to tell UCI, the cycling governing body, their
         | locations in order for doping controls.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rasmussen_(cyclist)#Un...
        
       | aaronrobinson wrote:
       | Motor doping has been around for ages. Nothing new.
        
       | jfghi wrote:
       | They could examine random bicycles plus those that did
       | extraordinarily well and issue lifetime bans for offending
       | parties.
        
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