The Int'l Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed that it tested extensively for technological fraud on this year’s Tour de France. All tests were carried out unannounced, prior, during or after racing, throughout the 21 stages of the three-week event. All checks have been negative. The 3,773 tests were performed using magnetic resistance technology. Since first deploying this new scanning method in January, the UCI has tested more than 10,000 bikes at many races (UCI).
The British Horseracing Authority committed to publishing a review of the way its disciplinary panel works "and expects to do so in September." The news follows criticism of the BHA over "a lack of openness in the way it has responded to the Matthew Lohn debacle." This latest of several BHA reviews was announced in March "as the result of the integrity review and increased enormously in significance the following month," when it emerged that Lohn had been paid to advise the BHA "while also chairing its disciplinary panels." That raised an "appearance of bias which led to the quashing of two guilty verdicts against trainers" and may yet lead to "similar outcomes" in seven other cases (London GUARDIAN, 7/27).