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I am inclined to believe her when she says it's not her bike. In legal terms, the chain of custody was likely broken, and a lookalike bike got accidentally brou

by Luc 11y ago

I am inclined to believe her when she says it's not her bike. In legal terms, the chain of custody was likely broken, and a lookalike bike got accidentally brought to the officials. We'll see soon enough. With the amount of cameras and witnesses around it shouldn't be too hard to get to the bottom of this. It will be interesting to see how the battery was hidden. In Dutch: http://www.demorgen.be/sport/van-den-driessche-fiets-is-van-vriend-zou-nooit-vals-spelen-b2bcd4b0/ http://www.demorgen.be/sport/van-den-driessche-fiets-is-van-...

ablation 11y ago
Her bike or not, it simply being in the pits/paddock area of her team is enough for serious punishment [0]. It doesn't even have to have been ridden in the event. It's collective responsibility, basically. [0] http://inrng.com/2016/01/the-electric-shock/ http://inrng.com/2016/01/the-electric-shock/
dmurray 11y ago
How could somebody have accidentally added a hidden motor and some electrical controls to a racing bike? Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? It seems quite clear that either there was cheating, or a very inventive attempt to frame her.
- DanBC 11y ago
  > Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? She's a fast cyclist. The pace rider who trains with her may need some assistance. However, that bike should have been painted bright pink so that it was obviously not a compliant race bike.
- Luc 11y ago
  > How could somebody have accidentally added a hidden motor and some electrical controls to a racing bike? I don't understand. Are you suggesting that's what I'm implying? > Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? Because it's a bike from a previous season she sold to them (a well known practice that even pro teams engage in to make some money on the side from bikes they get from sponsors), and they added the motor? And it's not someone on her team. > It seems quite clear that either there was cheating, or a very inventive attempt to frame her. There's no logical necessity for choosing only those two scenarios. Here's another one: some guy bought an old bike of hers, added a motor so he could seem like a tough guy (in case he kept it secret), and it got mistaken for one of her bikes.

by Luc 11y ago

ablation 11y ago

Her bike or not, it simply being in the pits/paddock area of her team is enough for serious punishment [0]. It doesn't even have to have been ridden in the event. It's collective responsibility, basically. [0] http://inrng.com/2016/01/the-electric-shock/ http://inrng.com/2016/01/the-electric-shock/

dmurray 11y ago

How could somebody have accidentally added a hidden motor and some electrical controls to a racing bike? Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? It seems quite clear that either there was cheating, or a very inventive attempt to frame her.

DanBC 11y ago
> Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? She's a fast cyclist. The pace rider who trains with her may need some assistance. However, that bike should have been painted bright pink so that it was obviously not a compliant race bike.
Luc 11y ago
> How could somebody have accidentally added a hidden motor and some electrical controls to a racing bike? I don't understand. Are you suggesting that's what I'm implying? > Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? Because it's a bike from a previous season she sold to them (a well known practice that even pro teams engage in to make some money on the side from bikes they get from sponsors), and they added the motor? And it's not someone on her team. > It seems quite clear that either there was cheating, or a very inventive attempt to frame her. There's no logical necessity for choosing only those two scenarios. Here's another one: some guy bought an old bike of hers, added a motor so he could seem like a tough guy (in case he kept it secret), and it got mistaken for one of her bikes.