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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The new leader of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rudy Molard (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Groupama-FDJ), has had his lead over Team Sky's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michal Kwiatkowski dramatically cut by a third following so-called 'illegal feeding' 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:on stage 5.

For safety reasons, riders are not allowed tꦯo take food or drink products from their team cars inside the last 20km of a race – unless a pre-announced lesser distance is decided upon by the race commissaires.

The rule prevents car෴s from coming up to their riders in the closing stages of a race when attacks and tactics are often in full swing.

Molard was handed a 20-second time penalty in the general classification – a normal punishment for the offence – for having taken a feed from his team car inside the permitted distance to the finish of stage 5 in Roquetas de Mar on Wednesday, which cuts 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:his ℱoverall lead to 🎃second-placed Kwiatkowski from the orig🍃inal gap of 1:01 to jusꦉt 41 seconds.

Cofidis sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nacer Bouhanni was also handed a time penalty on Wednesday, which was꧅ 30 seconds 🅺in his case.

It was reported in Spanish publication AS that Bouhanni's penalty had been for punching his directeur sportif and then the team car. Bouhanni denied it on twitter, saying that they were trying to make him out to be 'the bad boy that I am not'. Cofidis later published a statement categorically denying the incident, saying that Bouhanni's pe꧑nalty was for an illegal feed.

"The Cofidis Team formally denies the information repoꦺrted in the press concerning Nacer Bouhanni. There was never a fight between our leader and Jean Luc Jonrond, his sports direct🐭or during the 5th stage of La Vuelta 2018," the team wrote.

"Nacer was penalized for an irregular feed at the end of the stage yesterday, ridden under a very strong heat and at a fast pace.The Cofidis team also denies all the information about the conflicts between Nacer Bouhanni and his sports management, they are totally false. Nacer has our coཧnfidence and we rely on him."

The Frenchman finished last on stage 5, alone, 25:26 down on stage winner Simon Clarke (EF Eduౠ♊cation First-Drapac) and 8:02 behind the second-to-last-placed rider on the stage, Quick-Step's Dries Devenyns, who was part of a 47-man autobus group that also contained Deven꧙yns' teammate E🔯lia Viviani and Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe).

As well as the 30-second time penalty for Bouhanni – who has struggled with his team's ma🌺nagement this season – the Cofidis team car will also be relegated to last place in the c🐭onvoy of cars for stage 6.