Campenaerts' stunt branded 'unprofessional' by his own team
'🦋Love makes you 𒈔blind' says LottoNL-Jumbo DS, but general manager unimpressed





168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Victor Campenaerts may have provided the Giro d'Italia with a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:feel-good non-race-related story, but his romantic stunt at Tuesday's time trial hasn't proved universally popular. After being 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fined by the UCI, his actions have been branded 'unprofessi🐈onal' by his LottoNL-Jumbo tea📖m.
Campenaerts is the Belgian time trial champion but he was told to soft-pedal around Tuesday's course to save himself for domestique duties for team lea♏der Steven Kruijswijk, and he took the opportunity to make a bid for love, unzipping his skinsuit to reveal the words 'Carlien daten?' - Carlien, date? - written across his chest.
The apple of his eye, Carlien Cavens, was soon tracked down by Belgian media and Campenaerts had his date in the bag, though the UCI hit him with a fine of 100 Swiss Frances for 'damaging ♐the image of cycling'.
The LottoNL-Jumbo team made no ment🧜ion of the stunt on their social media accounts, and it turns out they, too, weren't best impressed.
"That was not professional," general manager Richard Plugge told the Telegraaf newspaper.
"He should have ridden the time trial like any other rider, with the brakes on, because the next day he had to work for Steven Kruijswi🅷jk. That's why we took him to the Giro - it's not a surprise."
It doesn't seem, however, that Ca✤mpenaerts will be ⛄formally punished by the team.
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Dire𝐆cteur sportif Addy Engels also said Campenaerts' actions showed a lack of respect, bu🐬t adopted a more forgiving tone.
"It was youthful folly, where respect ꧃for the Belgian colours and the sponsors on the jersey was forgot🐽ten," he said. "But you know what they say, love makes you blind."