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Ubuesque scene on the first stage of the Vuelta, where two runners from the Visma-Lease A Bike team could not start at the time of the first stage, a team trial.
An unusual scene took place this Sunday during the first stage of the Vuelta in Barcelona, where two runners of the Visma-Lease team in Bike could not appear in time on the starting line of the team time trial. Two in seven women therefore missed the call: the first arrived right when his teammates were rushed, while the second had to start via the access road for cars to make up for the others.
CHAOS at the start of La Vuelta Femenina for Visma – Lease a bike!
TWO of their riders missed the team’s TTT start time. What is going on? ud83eudd14 pic.twitter.com/O65EbFhC4h
-— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt)
The Dutch team has pointed out the organization, ASO (which also organizes the Tour de France) and filed a complaint with the UCI. “They recognized errors were made in the organization of the starting procedure but they ruled that no suite would be given” wrote the training of Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, the French Olympic champion, who pushed a rant: “Did the jury sleep by checking our bikes?! We were there 20 minutes before the verification of the bikes and two of our daughters did not arrive at the time” She wrote in an Instagram story, which she then deleted.
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According to Visma, the Couac was caused by the presence of a single official, instead of two, at the compulsory verification of bikes, and by the late arrival of another team to this verification, which would have caused the wait. Visma-Lease A Bike finally ranked 10th in this first stage of the Tour of Spain.
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