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  "description": "MyWhoosh, the virtual cycling platform that is used for the UCI Esports World Championships, will introduce anti-doping controls starting this month for its Sunday Race Club events.\n\nA random selection of competitors within a testing pool of around 700 athletes will undergo blood and urine testing each week, and MyWhoosh intends to test at least 10% of the athletes in the pool over the course of the year. Athletes will be told to stay where they are for up to three hours for the tests to take pl",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T19:03:15.000Z",
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  "textContent": "MyWhoosh, the virtual cycling platform that is used for the UCI Esports World Championships, will introduce anti-doping controls starting this month for its Sunday Race Club events.\n\nA random selection of competitors within a testing pool of around 700 athletes will undergo blood and urine testing each week, and MyWhoosh intends to test at least 10% of the athletes in the pool over the course of the year. Athletes will be told to stay where they are for up to three hours for the tests to take place.\n\n\"If someone’s cheating, they’re probably mechanically cheating,” MyWhoosh director of esports and game operations Matt Smithson told The Guardian. “But we’ve got a lot of verification to try to stop that now. Riders have to use a specific trainer to race, with two ways of showing their power. We also get our athletes to do what we call a power passport test. That includes a film test, so we know it’s that person. We can see their power, we can see their heart rate. We can see all of those things. And that gives us a physiological print of who they are.\n\n“Our drug testing, which is the first of its kind, is another way to help everybody feel that they are racing on a level playing field.” [The Guardian]",
  "title": "Drug testing comes to MyWhoosh racing",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-07T19:03:17.517Z"
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