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French to English: UCI Doha 2016 Media Guide General field: Other Detailed field: Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Source text - French Bienvenue à Doha !
Deux mois après des Jeux Olympiques de Rio 2016 durant lesquels le cyclisme et ses quatre disciplines olympiques auront connu un franc succès tant auprès du public qu’en termes d’audiences TV et digitales, le Qatar accueille les premiers Championnats du Monde Route UCI jamais organisés dans la région du golfe Persique.
L’Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) et le Comité d’Organisation des Championnats du Monde Route UCI 2016 de Doha, au Qatar, ont le plaisir de recevoir les médias locaux et internationaux pour un événement qui marque chaque année le couronnement de la saison cycliste sur route.
Du 9 au 16 octobre, 12 titres de Champion du Monde UCI – sept pour le contre-la-montre et cinq pour la course en ligne – seront décernés. Les meilleurs coureurs de la planète iront chercher le fameux maillot arc-en-ciel sur les routes de Doha, notamment le long de son front de mer sur l’île artificielle de Pearl Qatar.
Pour répondre au mieux aux attentes des médias, l’UCI et le Comité d’Organisation ont déployé un dispositif sur mesure visant à offrir à ses représentants les meilleures conditions de travail tout en assurant la qualité du spectacle sportif et l’intérêt du parcours pour les athlètes.
Dans ce guide des médias, vous trouverez toutes les informations utiles concernant notamment l’hôtel des médias, le dispositif de transport, les cartes des parcours, les Centres d’Accréditation et des Médias, et la zone mixte. Une liste des contacts utiles vous aidera aussi à tirer le meilleur parti du dispositif mis en place.
Il ne nous reste plus qu’à vous souhaiter d’excellents Championnats, un agréable séjour, et à vous remercier pour votre soutien précieux dans le rayonnement de notre sport.
Sébastien Gillot
Chef de la Communication UCI
Translation - English Welcome to Doha!
Two months on from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where cycling and its four Olympic disciplines were hugely successful, both in terms of crowds and TV and digital audiences, Qatar welcomes the first-ever UCI Road World Championships to be held in the Persian Gulf region.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) and the Organizing Committee of the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in Doha, Qatar, are delighted to welcome local and international media for an event which each year marks the crowning moment of the road cycling season.
On 9-16 October, 12 UCI World Champion titles – 7 for time trials and 5 for road races – will be awarded. The best riders on the planet will be chasing the famous rainbow jersey on the streets of Doha, most notably along the seafront on the artificial island of Pearl Qatar.
The UCI and the Organizing Committee have designed bespoke facilities in order to better meet the needs of the media, with the aim of offering the best working conditions to its representatives whilst also ensuring the quality of the sporting spectacle and an interesting route for the athletes.
In this Media Guide you will find all the necessary information concerning the media hotel, transport facilities, maps of the courses, the Media and Accreditation Centres, the mixed zone, and much more. A list of helpful contacts will also assist you in making the most of the facilities that have been put in place.
All that remains is for me to wish you an excellent Championships and an enjoyable stay, and to thank you for your crucial support in spreading our sport.
Sébastien Gillot
UCI Head of Communications
Italian to English: Corriere della Sera article - 'Motorised doping' in cycling General field: Other Detailed field: Journalism
Source text - Italian L’INCHIESTA CICLISMO E IMBROGLI
Lo scandalo della bici col motorino
Tutte le prove di chi usa il trucco
Le gare, i controlli superficiali, le coperture, i pusher, i prezzi e le folli velocità raggiunte
di Marco Bonarrigo
PARIGI - Sette partecipanti a due importanti corse ciclistiche professionistiche italiane con un motorino elettrico nascosto nella bici. È successo lo scorso marzo alla Strade Bianche di Siena e alla Coppi & Bartali di Riccione. Controlli dell’Unione Ciclistica Internazionale? No, immagini di telecamere termiche camuffate da attrezzature di ripresa del canale pubblico France Télévisions che racconta la vicenda oggi pomeriggio nel settimanale sportivo Stade 2. In cinque casi i motorini erano nel movimento centrale e spingevano sui pedali. In due nel pacco pignoni, per fornire trazione posteriore alla bici. La telecamera termica mostra sensibilissime variazioni di temperatura: gli esperti interpellati la spiegano solo col calore generato da un motore.
Di doping a motore si parla dal 2010 quando Fabian Cancellara vinse in sequenza Giro delle Fiandre e Parigi-Roubaix con azioni atletiche impressionanti. Contro di lui nessuna prova. Da allora voci, sospetti e un solo caso smascherato: la belga Van den Driessche ai Mondiali di cross del dicembre scorso. Incastrata con tecnologie sofisticate, annunciò l’Uci. Beccata dalla polizia che indagava su altro, spiegano fonti giudiziarie. L’Uci utilizzò il caso per sbandierare l’efficienza dei controlli. Messa in discussione da Jean-Pierre Verdy, direttore uscente dell’Agenzia francese antidoping: «Lo scorso luglio ci arrivarono informazioni attendibilissime sull’uso di motori al Tour, con nomi e cognomi di atleti top. Avvertimmo l’Uci: nessuna risposta, nessun controllo».
Ma come funzionano i motori? Per scoprirlo partiamo dalla bottega di Alessandro Bartoli, a Empoli. Da qui, a 10 mila euro a modello, escono ogni settimana quattro bici da corsa indistinguibili da quelle normali ma con un propulsore cilindrico da 200 watt nel tubo obliquo. Brevettato in Austria, è il motore usato dai professionisti fino al 2014. L’abbiamo provato sulla salita di San Baronto: la potenza basta a un dilettante per staccare Chris Froome. Bartoli: «Ai clienti spiego che l’uso in corsa è vietato. Poi ognuno risponde alla sua coscienza». La maggior parte di queste bici esce senza marchi sul telaio: ognuno ci aggiunge quello che crede. Il motore austriaco oggi ha dei limiti: la potenza è troppa e non modulabile. Le telecamere termiche alla Strade Bianche evidenziano qualcosa di diverso: macchie arancioni nel movimento centrale, meno intense e più concentrate di quelle prodotte dalla bici di Bartoli. Macchie che si accendono in salita e si spengono in discesa.
Un chiarimento arriva a Budapest, nel laboratorio di Istvan Varjas, lo scienziato-stregone che rifornirebbe professionisti di vertice. Varjas accetta di mostrarci i motorini di ultima generazione, minuscoli (5 centimetri contro i 20 dell’austriaco) e leggeri, con potenza modulabile fino a 250 watt. Possono fornire trazione anteriore (nel movimento centrale) o posteriore, nel pacco pignoni, sono perfetti per atleti con altissima frequenza di pedalata.
Se l’Uci usasse la telecamera termica potrebbe scoprirli. E invece? E invece i federali (che rifiutano la nostra richiesta di esaminare la loro attrezzatura) si muovono al villaggio di partenza delle corse con tablet per verificare la presenza di motori spenti. Si chiamano teslametri. Li abbiamo testati: sono poco affidabili per la natura sfuggente del campo magnetico. Alla Roubaix l’Uci ha controllato 196 bici ma senza sfiorare quelle dei big o cercare ruote e telai nelle ammiraglie, da cui quelle taroccate vengono tirate fuori al momento giusto. Ma la tecnologia è già oltre. Varjas ci mostra un oggetto mitologico: una ruota a induzione magnetica. È una carcassa in carbonio con inserite all’interno placche magnetiche al neodimio. Grazie a un «ponte» generato da un magnete a spire nascosto sotto la sella, permette di guadagnare almeno 60 watt. La ruota, spiega Varjas, non è rintracciabile ai controlli se non si usa un rilevatore di campo potentissimo. Costa oltre 50 mila euro ed è nella disponibilità di pochissimi atleti.
Il reportage di France Télé-visions si chiude con immagini inedite. Sono state girate a Verbania, al traguardo della 18ª tappa del Giro d’Italia 2015 quando Alberto Contador vinse la corsa rosa guadagnando terreno su Fabio Aru. A pochi minuti dall’arrivo l’Uci lanciò un controllo a sorpresa sulla bici dello spagnolo, nel mirino per un misterioso cambio di ruota del giorno precedente. La bici venne sigillata con una fascetta e portata dietro al palco delle premiazioni, dove l’Uci aveva predisposto una tenda accessibile solo agli ispettori. Le immagini mostrano lo stranissimo armeggiare di Faustino Muñoz, storico meccanico del Pistolero, attorno alla ruota del fuoriclasse spagnolo e all’orologio che portava al polso. E poi, con una seconda telecamera nascosta, i «sofisticati» strumenti di controllo nella tenda: un martello con cui lo stesso Muñoz smontava il movimento centrale davanti a un ispettore distratto. E la ruota?
Translation - English INQUIRY INTO CYCLING AND FRAUD
The scandal of the bike with the tiny motor
All the evidence of those who are attempting the trick
The races, the superficial tests, the cover-ups, the pushers, the prices, and the crazy extra speeds
by Marco Bonarrigo
PARIS – There were seven competitors in two important Italian professional cycling races with electric motors hidden in the bike. It happened in March at the ‘Strade Bianche’ in Siena and the ‘Coppi & Bartali’ in Riccione. Was this a UCI test? No, these were thermal imaging television pictures disguised as recording equipment by the public television station France Télévisions, who told the story this afternoon in their weekly sports show Stade 2. In five cases, the motors were hidden inside the bottom bracket and were pressing on the pedals; in the other two they were in the cogset to provide the bike with rear traction. The thermal imaging camera shows extremely sensitive variations in temperature, and the invited experts could only explain it by the heat generated from a motor.
Motorised doping has been talked about since 2010, when Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix successively, with impressive feats of athleticism. There was no evidence against him. Since then there have been voices, suspicions and just one case uncovered: the Belgian Van den Driessche at the Cyclo-cross World Championships last December. It was fitted with sophisticated technology, the UCI said. Ignored by the police who were investigating other things, they cited legal sources. The UCI sued this case to boast about the effectiveness of their testing. Jean-Pierre Verdy, outgoing Director of the French Anti-Doping Agency, joined the debate: “Last July we received very credible information on the use of motors in the Tour, such as names and surnames of top athletes. We alerted the UCI, and got no response, no checks.”
But how do the motors work? To discover this we begin at Alessandro Bartoli’s workshop in Empoli. Every week, at €10,000 a go, four racing bikes leave here and look indistinguishable from standard bikes, but they have a 200-watt cylindrical motor inside the own tube. Patented in Austria, this was the motor used by professionals until 2014. We tried on the San Baronto climb: the power is enough for an amateur to leave Chris Froome behind. Bartoli says: “I explain to customers that using them in races is forbidden. After that, each person goes with their own conscience.” The majority of these bikes leave with no branding on the frame; each person adds what they want. The Austrian motor has its limits: the power is too high and cannot be modified. The thermal imaging cameras at the Strade Bianche show something different: orange spots in the bottom bracket, less strong and more concentrated than those produced by Bartoli’s bikes. Spots which light up during climbs and switch off during descents.
One explanation comes from Budapest, and the laboratory of Istvan Varjas, the scientific wizard who allegedly supplies top-level professionals. Varjas agrees to show the latest-generation motors, which are tiny (5 cm long versus the 20 cm of the Austrian version) and light, with modifiable power up to 250 watt. They can provide forward (in the bottom bracket) or rear traction, while inside the cogset they are perfect for athletes with exceptionally high pedaling frequencies.
If the UCI used thermal imaging cameras, they could discover them. But instead? Instead officials (who refused our request to examine their equipment) move around the starting venues of races with tablets to check for the presence of switched-off motors. They are called teslameters. We tested them, and they are unreliable given the elusive nature of magnetic fields. At the Roubaix race, the UCI tested 196 bikes, but without going near the elite or looking for any in the team cars, from where the fraudulent ones are pulled out at just the right moment. But the technology has already moved beyond this. Varjas showed us a mythological object: a magnetic induction wheel. It consists of a carbon shell with magnetic plates made of neodymium placed inside. Thanks to a ‘bridge’ generated by a coiled magnet hidden under the saddle, almost 60 watts can be generated. The wheel, explains Varjas, is not traceable in tests unless a high-power field detector is used. It costs more than €50,000 and is available to very few athletes.
The France Télévisions report closed with previously-unseen footages. It was filmed in Verbania, at the finish line of the 18th stage of the 2015 Giro d’Italia when Alberto Contador took the pink jersey by making up ground on Fabio Aru. A few minutes after his arrival, the UCI began a surprise test on the Spaniard’s bike, who was in their sights after a mysterious wheel change the previous day. The bike had a band attached and was taken behind the winner’s platform, where the UCI had erected a tent for inspectors only. The pictures show the strange fiddling of Faustino Muñoz, long-time mechanic for ‘El Pistalero’, around the Spanish star’s wheel, and the watch he has around his wrist. Then, via a second hidden camera, we see the “sophisticated” testing equipment in the tent: a hammer with which the same Muñoz dismantles the bottom bracket in front of a inattentive inspector. And the wheel?
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