Hidden Motor Found In Bike Of Cyclist Competing In World Championship

Story out of Belgium: 

The electric motor was discovered inside the frame of the machine being used by teenager Femke Van den Driessche at the world cyclo-cross championship in Belgium, Brian Cookson, president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), said.

‘It’s absolutely clear that there was technological fraud. There was a concealed motor. I don’t think there are any secrets about that,’ Cookson told a news conference.

The 19-year-old Van den Driessche denied suggestions she had deliberately cheated in the women’s under-23 race and was in tears as she told Belgian TV channel Sporza: ‘The bike was not mine. I would never cheat.’ Cont.

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