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Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by hinkley on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:18PM (#40868628)
Only one person has been caught. It's been a long time since I bothered to look into this, but LeMond suspected at least half a dozen people, with video evidence of varying degrees of plausibility. The thermal imaging and the fallen rider with the spinning wheels were especially damning.

But if you're analyzing old races how do you get a conviction? You can't.

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Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by freejazz on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:30PM (#40869256)
> with the spinning wheels were especially damning

No it wasn't. Wheels spin through crashes all the time.

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Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by matsemann on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:08PM (#40869544)
And if this is the Toms Skujins case, it spins for like 3 seconds on video after the video cuts to him. It's obvious that he just had lifted his bike up and spun the pedals to see if everything was in order before biking on. And when an alternate video later was released, this was proven to be true.
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