The cheating wasn't in the rider. It was in the bike

For decades, professional cycling looked for cheating in athletes' bodies—blood tests, urine samples, hotel minibar audits. But according to Boing Boing, the real advantage may have been hiding in plain sight: inside the bikes themselves. Scanners discovered hidden motors concealed in seat tubes, mechanical doping that turned the sport's entire anti-cheating playbook upside down. The cheat wasn't the rider. It was the machine.

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