David Skretta

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USA Cycling, bike manufacturer Felt and several component partners spent more than two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars — if not millions — to build the cutting-edge track bike.
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In this May 18, 2016 photo, a bicycle is inspected after arriving in Asolo, Italy after the 11th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. There is perhaps no Olympic sport as dependent on technology as cycling, where space-age, feather-light carbon fiber bikes can cost more than a car _ and make the difference between a gold medal and nothing. That has also made the sport ripe for a new kind of doping: mechanical doping.
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