The UCI has announced that it will offer financial incentives in a bid to encourage whistleblowers to provide information on the use of motors in cycling.

The governing body outlined the details of its ‘rewards programme’ for information on technological fraud on Friday after the scheme was ratified by the UCI Management Committee at the Road World Championships in Zürich this week.

“The aim of the programme will be to encourage people with information on this subject to share it – confidentially – with the UCI in exchange for a financial reward,” the UCI said.

A whistleblowing programme with possible financial rewards was previously initiated across all sports by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2016. This new UCI policy, specific to technological fraud in cycling, was outlined in a document published on Friday, which stated that information to help target testing and investigations would be “facilitated through financial motivation, assistance, and/or reward for information".

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The rewards programme will be open to informants, whistleblowers and sources “who provide actionable information on technological fraud in cycling voluntarily and in good faith".

The UCI outlined three levels of compensation for informants – material assistance, financial assistance and monetary award.

The document did not specify the level of financial remuneration that would be offered for information, but it stated that the confidential disbursements “may include...

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