For a sport that has seen its image take a massive beating due to several high-profile doping scandals over the years, president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), David Lappartient is well aware of how quickly credibility can be lost.
And while the 51-year-old head of the world governing body of cycling believes the sport has taken several steps forward in its perpetual battle against the menace of doping, including the May 1 hiring of a dedicated FBI investigator, he says it’s important to ‘be awake’ to the threat of ‘new technologies’.
