If there’s one thing you can count on regarding professional sports it is that if one can improve one’s standing in their sport by cheating while -of course- not getting caught, they’ll do so.

Sports is a cutthroat business measured coldly with fraction of a second stop-watches and fractions of a millimeter tape.

We’ve dealt with steroids, under-inflated balls, corked bats, etc. etc. but the story below may well take the cake.

In an article by Chris Mills for Gizmodo.com, he notes how a young, professional cyclist was found to have hidden engine in one of her racing bicycles.  The terminology used for this form of cheating is amusing, to say the least:

Cycling Has Moved From Actual Doping to ‘Mechanical’ Doping

What did Femke Van den Driessche, the 19-year-old Belgian cyclocross star at the center of this controversy have to say about this?  From the article:

(Van den Driessche claimed) the bike (with the hidden motor) belonged to a friend, and mistakenly found its way into her race-day bike lineup.

Uh huh.

I’m sure that’s exactly what happened.