The first stage of the Vuelta female gave rise to an exceptional situation on the occasion of the team time trial this Sunday for the Visma-Lease Bike. Completely disorganized and late, only five out of seven runners were present when starting. Imogen Wolff and Femke de Vries have been delayed by bicycle checks.
In the precipitation, a first runner arrived alongside his teammates when he was launched. While the last one has landed from the cars’ access route.
The formation of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, finally took 10th place this Sunday. The Dutch team therefore pointed out the organization of the race (ASO) through a statement: “Despite the situation in which the ladies were, they rolled a very good time trial,” said sports director Jos Van Emden. Later in the day, the team filed an official complaint with the UCI jury. Visma and Lead a Bike explained: “Although the runners arrived well in time for the compulsory bike control before the team time trial, delays occurred due to the late arrival of another team. In addition, the control was first carried out by a single official, which still extended the waiting time. A second inspector was deployed later, but at that time, the Visma team | Lease A Bike Women was no longer able to benefit from this additional capacity. Consequently, some runners received their bike so late that they could not reach the departure in time. »»
A counter-time that did not fail to react the Olympic champion who published an Instagram Strory before quickly deleted: “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 on time. »»
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On the regional side, the Iséroise Evita Muzic and the FDJ – Suez took 4th place. Marion Borras and Cofidis are 13th. The Drômoise, Laura Asencio and Arkéa are 20th.
