The UCI announced Wednesday that it condemned the behaviour of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dylan Groenewegen (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jumbo-Visma) following a high-speed crash during the final sprint of stage 1 at the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Tour de Pologne.
The crash caused half a dozen riders to go down including Dutch champion Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-QuickStep), who was airlifted to a spe🥃cialist hospital in Sosnowiec in serious condition.
The severity of☂ the incident prompted the sport’s international governing body to immediately refer the matter to the Disciplinary Commission with a request to impose sanction againsꦍt Groenewegen.
"The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) strongly condemns the dangerous behaviour of rider Dylan Gro🍷enewegen (Jumbo-Wisma), who sent Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-Quickstep) into the barriers a few metres from the finish, causing a collective crash at the end of the first stage of the Tour of Poland," the statement from the UCI read.
Groenewegen was disqualified from the race ꦯby the commissaires' panel and fined 500CHF.
"The UCI, which considers the behaviour unacceptable, immediately referred the matter to the Disciplinary Commission to request the 🗹imposition of sanctions commensurate with the seriousness of the facts," the press release stated.
"Our Federation is wholeheartedly with the aff💜ected riders."
The crash happened during𝓀 the final metres of stage 1 at the Tour de Pologne where Groenewegen and Jakobsen were sprinting for the finish line in Katowice. Video footage shows Groenewegen deviated from his line toward the righthand side of the road and Jakobsen ꧙crashing through the road-side barriers.
Groenewegen barely crossed the line first while losing control of his bike, crashing after the line. Half a dozen riders also went down including Marc Sarreau (Groupama-FDJ), Jasper Philipsen (UAE Team Emirat𒉰es), Damien Touze (Cofidis) and Eduard Prades (Movistar).
Jakobse🐓n was immediately attended to by medical services on-site and subsequently airlifted hospi🗹tal in a serious condition, as was a course-side official who was impacted by the crash.
Sarreau damaged ligaments i𓆉n his shoulder in the incident and his team said he would not continue the race.
Jumbo-Visma have issued a statement following the crash, apologising for the incident, and෴ confirming that they will address the matter internally before making any further public statements.
"Our thoughts go out to Fabio Jakobsen and other people involved in today’s terrible crash in the To๊ur of Poland. Crashes like these should not happen," Jumbo-Visma published to its social media channel.
"We offer our sincere apologies and we🔯 will discuss internally what has happened b🧜efore we may make any further statement."
