every winning bike goes in to X ray, wont matter to some posters here, so why we even bother with reality
Thats what the UCI is claiming but what they really do is another thing as we could see at the giro 2023. They claimed to check every bike. Despite claiming that they test at every mens and womens worldtour race, the uci testing is highly inconsistent, something that some journalist exposed. At the giro they didn´t test a single bike in the first two time trials despite saying so. in the vuelta the x-ray machine wasn´t use until the final week.
The UCI can claim many things, but unfortunately this does not always correspond to the facts, as we have seen in this example.
Furthermore, one should also ask oneself whether the UCI would really be interested in finding a motor in pogacars bike. The star of the uci business. Would you seriously risk a scandal if you were making money from cycling? That would be just as stupid as scoring an own goal. Do you want to mess with the best and richest team that organizes UCI races? History has also shown us that the UCI likes to protect riders like Armstrong.
And then there is the technical part. As with almost any kind of cheating or doping, the detection methods always lag a few years behind the cheating itself. But even if you could, you still have to ask yourself whether you are interested in finding anything at all
I'm still waiting for logical answers as to how a lightweight like Tadej Motorcar can keep up with 500w FTP riders even on flat races.
I'm still waiting for a logical explanation as to how, for example, in the 2022 Tirreno Adriatico time trial, Pogacar finished third behind Ganna and Evenepoel, even though the live watt figures only showed an average of 320w and even the Dutch commentator had no explanation. He was in the red for 2% of the race whereas Ganna was 86% in the red and averaged 530watts. How can it be that Pogacar finished third and was only 17 seconds slower than Ganna despite being only 2% in the red?
And does anyone here really think it's a coincidence that he didn't use a power meter for his alien performance on La Planche des Belles Filles 2021? I think every cycling fan remembers the shock and amazement they felt when Pogacar made the other riders look like little kids. Tom Dumoulin (second with 1:21 up on pogacar), made some comments afterwards that could be interpreted to mean that something wasn't quite right: “My performance was similar to my world championship, so his performance must be out of this world”, "I'm coming second to a rider who sits on his bike like a mountain man. I just don't understand how that's possible“, ”Pogacar had something special today".
Well, it takes something special to create things that the human body cannot naturally create. It takes something special to be the only rider not to arrive at the finish line tired, even though everyone else is destroyed.
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