( We wrote about this at length when Ironman was considering handing out world championship spots in their Ironman VR races.) However, as a survey of Zwift users showed, if athletes feel cheating is too common in their e-races, then they’re less likely to come back or to keep at it.
There are then a few obvious ways to cheat-or unintentionally cheat, as it were-by causing any of those inputs to be incorrect. While power is measured by a smart trainer and/or power meter, weight and height are up the athlete to input into the system. Zwift and nearly all virtual cycling platforms work on an algorithm that takes weight, height, and power into account for each ride. You can no longer change your weight while in the middle of an event doing so will now result in a generic error message. The company later walked back from that and announced a fix to the hack. Zwift initially issued a “shadow ban” against the athlete and was criticized for, in essence, shooting the messenger. Last week, Zwift found itself embroiled in a “weight doping” scandal after an avid user pointed out a lesser known way for athletes to cheat-by changing their weight or height once they were in the middle of a race. Two years, too, of growth in e-racing, and two years for the mega virtual platform, Zwift, to refine its anti-cheating protocols-which it’s been doing in bits and pieces, and sometimes in leaps. It’s been two years now of huge increases in the number of people riding inside. For access to all of our training, gear, and race coverage, plus exclusive training plans, FinisherPix photos, event discounts, and GPS apps,
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