It has to come sooner or later and it is on Tour Down, first World Tour d racee season, where the first official yellow card was presented to a cyclist, after the season the new regulations of International Cycling Union (UCI) choose several races, including The Returnto test them but no official character.
It also entered Women’s Tour Down Under this year where the first yellow card was shown to the women’s platoon, in this case to the sports director of One-Xand this Wednesday the ‘punished’ was the Dutchman Danny Van Poppel.
The Dutchman, like the rest of his teammates Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohehe moved effectively to ‘climb up’ his partner Samuel Welsford the race leader, who crowned the good work of his teammates with a second victory in two stages of the test to become leader of the Tour Down Under.
But in the last meters, Van Poppel He moved a little to the right and placed himself directly in front of the German Henri Uhlig (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in a dangerous maneuver, preventing Uhlig from fighting to victory.
This action was not noticed by the race judges who gave the sanction Van Poppel, dropped from eighth place where he entered the finish line to 118th. There are four more stages and one sprint to go and if the Dutchman sees a new yellow he will be thrown out of the race and unable to compete again in seven. day.
Source: La Verdad
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