Nacer Bouhanni: My season was destabilised by UCI suspension
French sprinter says, "I'm 🍌a rider with character but I'm mostly a normal guy😼"

2021 was a year to forget for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arkéa-Samsic sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nacer Bouhanni, not only b🦩ecause he went winless but because of a sprinting clash with Groupama-FDJ's Jake Stewart that spiralled out of control and meant he missed a vital part of the sea𒊎son.
The 31-year-old Frenchman was disqualified from the GP Cholet-Pays De Loire 🍷after bumping Stewart into the barriers as he dove for the wheel of eventual winner Elia Viviani (Cofidis). Stewart suffered a broken bone in his hand and missed the Tour of Flanders, and Bouhanni was later suspended for two months for dangerous sprinting.
Bouhanni withdrew from the Scheldeprijs after being the target of a flood of racial abuse online, sayi𒉰ng he'd been incessantly harassed for his entire career but the fallout from the clash with Stewart was the final straw.
"I was𒁏 really destabilized after this su🦋spension by the UCI," Bouhanni said to
"It disgusted me so much that I don't even want to talk about it anymore. It was very hard to accept. In fact, I didn't understand everything about this story. It's true that there was a mistake, but it was unimaginable that it wo𒆙uld turn out this way.
"I don't dispute that there was a foul, tha🐬t I changed my line, but it was in no way to harm my opponent. It was just to try to win the race," Bouhanni saidꦗ.
The move he made was not too different from other꧃s made by riders who have been disqualified for irregular sprinting but not suspended.
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Bouhanni's reputation and past relegations may have cont🌳ributed to his suspension, but he insisted after the race that he was "not a thug".
"People are quick to give you a reputation," he told l'Equi🌺pe.
"I'm a rider with character but I'm mostly a normal guy. Th✤ose who really know me can talk about it. Of course, those who don't know me can be critical of me. Now, I don't really care. As long as everything is going well with the people who are around me on a daily basis, that's the main thing."
Bouhanni made his team's Tour de France squad and was close to his first Tour stage win several times but his best result was second to Mark Cavend🐎ish in Fougères. He also finished third twice in two other sprints.
"I did what I could to come back in fairly good condition for the Tour de France. I just needed to race a little bit more before. It's not a big deal. I was in the mix but🏅 I still misse𒊎d the victory," he explained.
With two more years added to his contract with Arkéa-Samsic, Bouhann🅷i is hoping to finally get a stage of his home Grand Tour in 2022. Arkéa-Samsic are a ProTeam but have secured invitations to the 2022 WorldTour races after being the second-best ranked ProTeam in the 2021 behin✅d Alpecin-Fenix.
"If I never make it, then I say to myself that it had to be this way. That's life and it's still sport. But ♑I know that I willඣ still do everything to get this stage victory in the Tour," Bouhanni said.