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Was anyone in the team aware/complicit? Was she a willing cheat or pushed into it? Who made the motor? How long she'd been using it? Does she know of other riders using them? We know most of the details, but it'd be good to get the full skinny.
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How could the team mechanic not know? There's additional wires/buttons and cross bikes are going to be dismantled and cleaned more than most.
So if the mechanics have to know, so do the management and I'd guess this is something the UCI will be making enquiries about at the moment but again, are you ever going to get the full skinny unless the UCI incentivises this over the public appearance of zero tolerance? If they had a whisleblower scenario and the ability to protect someone from being permanently shunned from the sport I guess that's when we'd get the detail we need but the truth is its easier to hang it all on one 19 year old girl and try to make it go away as fast as possible as there's no easy way to displace the entire management of the national cross team and it's entourage.
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Don't we though? Her dad's got a dubious record, her brother's a documented cheat, and she got busted with a motor in her bike. What else do we need to know? As a family they've tried to game the system and it's imploded spectacularly-it's unfortunate the UCI were'nt more focused on getting the mia culpa rather than the PR of a lifetime ban but I don't really think it's needed in this case anyway as the excuse was so fucking poor.