French pensioner caught motor doping during hill climb The 73-year-old aroused the suspicions of race organisers when he finished just three minutes behind the winner on the 10km-long climb cycling
Many of those intrepid hill climbers were shocked when the 73-year-old rider, the president of a local cycling club, passed them on the mountain, accompanied by a rather suspicious whirring sound emanating from his back wheel.
“Everyone knew about it, several people saw my bike before the start, and told me it was fine, no one tried to stop me from taking off,” the rider told Le Dauphiné Libéré. “And now they crucify me! In a statement, the event organisers responded to the rider’s disqualification by saying: “We were blown away. This is something that stains our race, which is first of all an appointment where the best can be measured against Sunday cyclists.
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