Cookson warns cheats as UCI showcases motor detection method

Johan Kucaba, Equipment Coordinator at UCI holds a tablet using magnetic resonance technology to detect a bike equipped with a motor during a media event at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in Aigle, Switzerland May 3, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

AIGLE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Cheats will not prosper was the message of International Cycling Union (UCI) president Brian Cookson on Tuesday as the governing body stepped up its fight against mechanical fraud by showcasing a new method to detect hidden motors in bikes.

Earlier this year, Belgian rider Femke van den Driessche was handed a six-year ban for mechanical doping after it was proven her spare bike contained a motor at the cyclocross Under-23 world championship in January.