Giant Cycling rider disqualified from Tour de Langkawi for fighting
Fan video footage captures fi♑ght between Giant and Terengganu teams after stage 3
Zhiwen Chen,19, of the Giant Cycling Team has been disqualified from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Langkawi for violence. Following a lengthy meeting of race commissaires, a decision - confirmed via the race co𝓀mmuniqué - 🦩was taken to fine Chen 200 Swiss Francs and disqualify him from the race.
Following the stage win by Adam de Vos of Rally in Kalua Terenaganu, a video taken by a spectator emerged, involving a number of riders. The video was taken from a balcony overlooking th🐬e finish꧒ of the stage.
Chen was penalised under “Article 30.1: Acts of violence among riders” and elimina♌ted for his role in the fight.
Teammate Hang Shi was also penalised with the added charge of “throwing a bottle against another rider” but remains in the race. Cyclingnews understands that Shi threw the bottle mid-raꦅce when tempers originally flared between the Terengganu and Giant teams. For throwing the bottle, Shi received a CHF200 fine and was penalized one second.
The post-stage fight also involved 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mohd Harrif Saleh of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Terengganu cycling team. The 29-year-old was penalized under Article 37bis: “Behaviour which damages the image of cy♉cling (by his defensive action).” For his role in the incident, Saleh was fined CHF50. Chen was also penalized under Article 37bis and received a further CHF50 fine for his role in the fight.
Chen finished 11th on stage 1 of the race❀ int♕o Kulim. The Tour de Langkawi was his first UCI race of the 2018 season.
Starting with only five riders, the Giant team is lefꦆt with just two 🥀riders in the race with five stages remaining in the Tour de Langkawi.
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In November of last year, Chinese rider Wang Xin (Keyi Look) was disqualified from the Tour of Hainan when footage emerged of him after attacking staff of the Swiss n🌞ational team. His team was also disqualified from the race due to the incident.
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Langkawi race communique also contained changes for stage 4 of the Tour de Lang𝓡kawi from Dungun to Pekan. The stage has been extended from 177.6km to 183.8km with the third intermediat♔e sprint point move from Balok to Tanjung Lumpur.