Aigle, Switzerland, Nov 10.- The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) named Frenchman Jean-Christophe Peraud as the new director of the fight against technological doping in the bicycles.
The UCI already has an effective policy in the fight against technological fraud, but I am convinced that it can still be improved. That's what I'll do now, Peraud said.
Peraud, second overall in the Tour de France-2014, is currently 40 years old and ended his professional career at the end of the 2016 season.
Training engineer, the retired French cyclist was also a silver medalist in the Olympic Games in Beijing-2008 in mountain biking.
According to the UCI, its mission will be to deal with 'the processes of approval of the material used in the competition, the management of projects related to the use of new technologies in cycling tests and the fight against technological fraud.'
By its part, the president of the entity, the French David Lappartient, considered Peraud the ideal man to work in close collaboration with the ad hoc commission of the UCI.