Hasn't that been the trend for years though? If you're not clear cut favourite, the amount of risk taking diminishes so you don't risk losing ground in the fight for secondary places? Not saying that Roglic and Evenpoel were eyeing each other, they lost out to inattention, but I don't think...
Don't want to hijack the thread, but I find this very interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_doping#Others
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3731603
This is from 2012 mind you.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/is-mitochondrial-therapy-the-next-sports-doping-scandal-8s9skd7cm
Undetectable for the foreseeable future. Not in perpetuity.
Remember how long it took to develop tests for autologous blood transfusions compared to how long the method had been...
These modern medical developments make a lot more sense to me as explanations for alien results than motors and "classic" drugs.
They're undetectable now and in the foreseeable future, only people in the know can expose it. Theoretically the only people who need to be involved is the rider and...
I'd imagine there's still an element of omerta going on in wider pro cycling circles. Add to that the UK libel laws, and you have a recipe for journos and commentators keeping schtum if they don't have concrete evidence, even if they had their suspicions.
Re: Moto-fraud: first rider caught
I reckon someone has convinced them that even when the motors are off they will electromagnetically distort the screen on the 'pad...