Spare Bike

Flanders, Belgium, Saturday, January 30, 2016, 4:00 pm. In the white tent of the Cyclocrosscyclocross Bike racing on a looped course of mud, sand and grass, with sections where riders dismount and run carrying the bike. World Championships commissairescommissaire In cycling, an official who enforces the rules and inspects equipment during a race., a mud-caked bicycle is clamped in a workstand, its saddle removed.

At 1:52 pm, Lotte Ameel, a 19-year-old Belgian, won the under-23 race by 40 seconds over Saar Wuyts. But at 1:38 pm a commissairecommissaire In cycling, an official who enforces the rules and inspects equipment during a race.'s tablet had pinged on her spare bike, just handed back to the pit.

The federation suspended the podium and called the police: if there was a motor hidden in that frame, someone stole Saar's title.

Three people know where that bike came from. One of them knows who switched it on during the sand climb.

Commissairescommissaire In cycling, an official who enforces the rules and inspects equipment during a race.' tent at a Belgian cyclocrosscyclocross Bike racing on a looped course of mud, sand and grass, with sections where riders dismount and run carrying the bike. course, with a muddy bike without a saddle.