Bahrain-Merida, Moreno apologise for Giro d'Italia incident
Copeland calls push on Rosa 'not acceptable', su🐷pports rider's expulsion from race
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bahrain-Merida team and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Javier Moreno have issued an apology to Team Sky and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Diego Rosa after a clash in stage 4 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia led to the Spanish rider's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:expulsion from the race.
Moreno explained that the riders were fighting for pos🗹ition heading into the final climb of the stagﷺe up Mount Etna when the incident occurred.
"My teammates and me were all in the line coming to the final climb, Team Sky came up on the left and Rosa wanted to get onto my teammate's wheel in front of me. When he realized I was resisting, he aggravated me to which I reacted by pu🃏shing him, unfortunately causing him to crash,"💞 Moreno said.
"I want to apologize for my✅ reaction and make it clear that it was not my intention for him to crash. I apologize to him and Team Sky, as well as to my teammates and sponsors."
Bahrain-Merida condemned the action and supported the race jury's decision to eject Moreno from the Gi🎀ro d'Italia. It means defending champion Vincenzo Nibali will be without one helper for the m🅷ajority of the race, but general manager Brent Copeland said the action was unacceptable.
"This was unfortunate situation which happened during a tense moment of the ra♉ce, however Javier's act is not acceptable," Copeland said. "On behalf of team Bahrain Merida we apologize to those involved."
Moreno is the second rider this season to be kicked out of a race because of a violent reaction to the inevitable fight for wheels:&n🌃bsp;Andriy Grivko is currently serving a 45-day ban for punching Marcel Kittel in the face during the Dubai Tour.
The latest race content, interv💟iews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, 🐼direct to your inbox!