The Worldwide Cycling Union (UCI) have introduced they are going to be utilizing Thermal Cameras to check for mechanical doping on the Tour de France.
The cameras will assist catch any rivals trying to cheat utilizing hidden motors inside their bikes. Mechanical or technological doping has develop into a problem that the UCI has began to deal with in 2016.
The 103rd Tour de France is about to start on July 2nd. The race is by far the most important occasion within the sport of biking, making it the right venue for the UCI to proceed their struggle towards the most recent wave of dishonest of their sport.
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We coated technological doping in February when the UCI first began testing for it. They carried out these preliminary checks through the use of magnetic resistance scans. The exams took roughly thirty seconds and are designed to detect hidden magnets, batteries and motors inside a motorcycle.
The thermal cameras on the Tour de France might be arrange all through the two,200 miles of the course. The UCI declare they’ve the assets to conduct as much as four,000 checks through the 21 days of competitors.
Since they started testing roughly six months in the past the UCI has examined hundreds of bikes. They hope to check round 12,000 bikes by the top of 2016 and have been met with little resistance to the testing. The biking group can also be trying to be proactive towards this latest wave a dishonest. Race organizers and groups everywhere in the world have begun to buy UCI scanners to assist curb the prevalence of technological doping.
The president of the UCI, Brian Cookson could be very excited concerning the testing and has a transparent message to ship to potential cheaters. “Because the starting of the yr, we’re sending a transparent message which is that there’s actually no-the place to cover for anybody silly sufficient to aim to cheat on this means. A modified bike is extraordinarily straightforward to detect with our scanners and we’ll proceed to deploy them extensively all through the Tour.”
There has solely been one excessive-profile occasion of a mechanical doper being caught utilizing the UCI testing strategies. However with the biking world simply days away from the beginning of an important competitors of their sport it won’t be lengthy earlier than others are caught.
For a sport that has had its justifiable share of dishonest scandals, the UCI appears poised to battle its latest one head-on.
