A chain delay that leaves fines and complaints in the women’s return

The Female return has rolled in Barcelona With a team counter. An eight -kilometer route through the streets of the city that has left Ellen van Dijkof the Lidl-Trekas the first leader of the race. The American team has completed the CRE at 9:30 ‘, three seconds faster than the SD Worx and that the LIV-Alula-Jayco.

An inaugural stage that has been marked by the problems at the exit of Uno-X y Visma-Lease a Bike. A chaos on which more details have been known once the stage is over.

Both teams had to start the chrono without being prepared. One-X He did it with a few seconds of delay, while the Comma He started without all his runners on the exit ramp. An incident that caused the complaints of one of its leaders, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. The French uploaded an image to her social networks explaining what happened. “We arrived 20 minutes in advance to the review of the bicycles. We insisted on the jurors that we had to go to the exit, but they took it easy and two of our cyclists did not arrive on time. So much effort and preparation, at all,” wrote the winner of the Paris-Roubixin a publication that later deleted.

In statements to proclyclingguk.com, Anouska costsfrom one-x, confirmed that “we were late because of the team that came out in front of us. They were late for the review of the bicycles and we had to wait.”

The UCI He made public a statement in which he pointed out to the cause of said delay. It’s about Movistar Team. “The team did not appear for review at least 15 minutes before the time of the team,” he clarifies. It is for that reason that he sanctioned with 200 Swiss francs (214 euros) to his seven runners and its director Eusebio Unzué.

Kelvin coverssports director of the Telephone Training, also wanted to give its version. “When our runners arrived, the jury was still busy with the team that preceded us, which climbed the podium about 10-20 seconds before the exit. We did it 5 seconds before and then everything went worse. We did not arrive with the 15-minute margin, but still we had to wait,” he wrote in X.