Cyclist withdraws from race after officials find a hidden motor in her bike

Cyclist withdraws from race after officials find a hidden motor in her bike, Cycling has the best cheating. Hands down. Added sports ability try to footfall to the champ with their abandoned assurance and recorded practices, but NOTHING compares to accepting a motor in a bike that's declared to be propelled by a person. Femke Van den Driessche was affected to abjure from the under-23 chase at the cyclo-cross apple championships if admiral fabricated a analytical analysis while analytical her bike afterward automated problems.

A motor was army central the bike with cables and apartment begin beneath the bike's saddle. Van den Driessche was a admired in the chase and claims she had no abstraction the motor was central her bike -- adage she purchased it from a friend.

"It's not fun if you are accused of something. But I would never cheat. I absolutely like cycling and I adulation my sport, but I realise that I now accept a actual big problem," she said.

That "big problem" is automated fraud, which carries annealed penalties -- depending on how cycling's administering physique rules. This isn't the aboriginal time cyclists accept been accused of application motors to cheat. It was accounted Tour de France compeditior Chris Froome acclimated a motor on Stage 14 of the world's a lot of acclaimed race.

This isn't about whether a cyclist acclimated a motor or not and added about added sports defective to lift their games. We charge these levels or cartoonish cheating in all sports. Ability we advance magnets central of accepting gloves and footballs funn of metal filings? Perhaps a gyroscope central a golf ball? Let's do this.

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