Jean-Christophe Péraud has lost his job as International Cycling Union (UCI) manager of equipment, just weeks after a French probe into mechanical doping in cycling closed without finding evidence it is a problem in the sport. 

A French probe into mechanical doping in cycling has closed without finding evidence it is a problem in the sport.

A recreational French cyclist caught mechanical doping in a local race has claimed he used a motor in his bike to reduce pain from injury during competitions.

Thermal cameras are set to be used at this year’s Tour de France as the International Cycling Union (UCI) revealed that additional methods would be utilised to combat the threat of technological doping.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) will investigate whether emails sent by their technical manager Mark Barfield hindered a police investigation after claims made in a French television programme on mechanical doping.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) expressed their belief here today that they have chosen the most “effective and efficient” system to detect technological fraud.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced that 507 bike tests have taken place at the ongoing Tour de Romandie in the battle against technological fraud - and that no offences have been detected.

Femke Van den Driessche has been handed a six-year suspension by the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) Disciplinary Commission after they announced their decision in the technological fraud case involving the Belgian rider.

Two contrasting but deeply controversial incidents have taken place in sport in recent weeks.

The first concerned 19-year-old Belgian cyclist Femke Van den Driessche, a European cyclo-cross champion last year who, after failing to finish the women's under-23 race at the World Championships in Heusden-Zolder, was reportedly found to have had a motor concealed within her bike.