On the identical day that new CPA President Adam Hansen appealed to sports activities administrators to make use of extra warning in races, Jay Vine was virtually taken down by his personal UAE Workforce Emirates automotive throughout stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia.
Hansen spoke out on Tuesday after AG2R Citroën’s Lawrence Naesen claimed he was struck from behind by the Groupama-FDJ automotive throughout Sunday’s Tro-Bro Léon, accusing sports activities director Frederic Guesdon of knocking him down.
In the course of the Giro d’Italia stage to Lago Laceno, Vine was behind the peloton driving alongside the motive force’s aspect of the UAE Workforce Emirates group automotive, resting his proper hand on the door body of the automotive. The motive force made a sudden veer to the left to maneuver round one other group automotive, leading to Vine shedding his steadiness.
In a tremendous feat of luck and bike dealing with, Vine was capable of relaxation his physique in opposition to the automotive and push himself again into steadiness earlier than driving again to the peloton.
The incident was far much less egregious than the one involving Naesen throughout Tro-Bro Léon the place the automotive bumped into Naesen, inflicting him to crash after which “driving off as if nothing occurred”, in line with a witness.
Vine completed the stage in sixteenth place, together with the entire GC favourites behind stage winner Aurélien Paret-Peintre (AG2R Citroen), to carry onto tenth place total behind new chief Andreas Leknessund (Workforce DSM).
:bicyclist::it: | Wat een gepruts! Van Vine, de ploegwagen of allebei? Het loopt met een sisser af… :sweat_smile::sweat_smile: #Giro:television: Koers kijk je op discovery+ pic.twitter.com/YvZL5ZY6s7Might 9, 2023
