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Old 01-29-2017, 05:29 PM
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Even in the biggest races, you're talking about less than 250 riders. So even if each of them have 4 bikes, you're looking at under 1000 bikes that could be tested. Should be pretty straightforward to catalog the bikes in some way, so that teams can't move bikes in and out of the race, and then inspect a random number after each stage plus those in the top 10 or 20 for that stage and on GC.

As noted above, if the testing protocol is accurate, it is a much easier thing to control than doping.

It is much more bounded than the issues with out of competition testing that you have to deal with in PEDs.
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