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An 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:urgent appeal by Peter Sagan and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bora-Hansgrohe team to have the world champion returned to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France peloton wa🐽s rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday🌠.

Sagan was excluded from the Tour de France on Tuesday evening after his manoeuvre on the stage 4 finish se🥂nt Mark Cavendish crashing into the barriers. Cavendish was forced to abandon the race with a broken shoulder blade. Other riders were injured in the knock-on effects of the crash.

The decision to expel Sagan has proved a controversial one, but in an ap𒆙peal heard on Thursday, CAS upheld the UCI commissaires' decision to remove the Slovak fromꦺ the Tour.

In a typically brief statement from CAS issued just minutes before the♚ end of the Tour's stage 6, the Swiss arbitration body said it had rejected the a꧒ppeal by Sagan and the Denk ProCycling team. "Accordingly, Peter Sagan remains disqualified from the 2017 Tour de France."

After the crash on Tuesday evening, Sagan s♕aid he accepted the UCI decision but disagreed with it and 🤪he has since issued an apology for what happened.

The Bora-Hansgrohe team were adamant that Sagan had done no wrongdoing, claiming that Sagan was denied a hearing w🏅ith the race jury before being expelled. They said in an earlier press statement before the appeal was heard that, "The team and Peter Sagan would like to reiterate their position that Peter Sagan did not cause, let alone deliberately, the fall of Mark Cavendish on the last 200m of the fourth stage on July 4, 2017."

"Peter Sagan stayed on his line a🏅nd could not see Mark Cavendish on the righ🀅t side."

Bora-Hansgrohe have yet to commentℱ on the fi♔nal decision.

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• Tour de France: Sagan sparks C🉐avendish c🅺rash - Gallery
• Rolf Aldag: This is a loss💧, loss, loss situation for all
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• Peter Sagan: A look at previous disqualific🌠ations at𒅌 the Tour de France
• Tour de France: Cavendish, Sagan ꦇfinal words o🐻n crash
• Bora-Hansgrohe appeal to CAS to reverse Sagan'🉐s Tour de France expulsion

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