SAINT-LO, France (AP) — Tour de France cyclists suspected of using hidden motors will be stopped even in the middle of a stage, UCI president Brian Cookson said on Friday.
The International Cycling Union is deploying a magnetic resonance test and thermal cameras to catch any cheats.
"We can do the tests at the start, at the finish, we can take bikes during the race if there are any changes or so," Cookson said. "It's not just the bikes that the riders start off the race, we test the bikes on the cars, we test the bikes on the teams' trucks as well.