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Team Sky announced today that it has suspended Italian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gianni Moscon as the result of an incident at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie during which the 23-year-old hurled racist insults at FDJ's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kévin Reza.

Moscon was given a "formal written warning" and suspended from racing for s♊ix weeks, and will be sent to a "diversity awareness course", according to a statement on TeamSky.com.

"Gianni recognises that his behaviour was wrong and how seriously Team Sky take this kind of incident," Team Sky said. "He apologised to Kevin Reza after the stage and again to him🎀 and his team the following morning, and this apology was accepted. Gianni knows that there is no excuse for his behaviour and that any repeat will result in termination of 👍his contract."

It is not the first time a rider has been punished for racist insults, nor is it the first time Reza has been the target: at the 2014 Tour de France, Reza accused Michael Albasini (Orica) of using racist language while the two were part of the day's 🐓breakaway on the stage to Luchon. The Orica team did not take action, tweeting, "Misunderstandings cleared up, shook hands. No dramas."

In 2015 Branislau Samoilau was accused of being abusive toward MTN-Qhubeka's Natnael Berhane, and fined one month's wages by the CCC Polsat team💫, whic🌌h donated the funds to the Qhubeka charity.

Cyclingnews spoke to Team Sky's directeur sportif Nicolas Portal in Romandie after the incident, and he confirmed that Moscon apologised for his comments t🧸o Reza, but the te🙈am did not pull the Italian out of the race.

"There was a big fight at the finish and, yes, it hurt Kevin. After the s🤪tage Gianni apologised and we went to see FDJ this morning to make the effort so they know we take it seriously. Kevin accepted and that was nice that the two guys could shake hands and that there was an apology. There's no excuse for that but we moved on," Portal said.

"This is🍸 something we're going to take seriously after the race. In this sport we have all generations of bike riders and some really young bike riders. It's our job to 🔥teach them the right way, we've seen really bad behaviour in other sports, and this is really bad. We explained this to Gianni and he understood."

The UCI has also launched an investigation into ဣthe incident.

More on this story:

• Moscon racial♑ly abuses ✨Reza at Tour de Romandie
• ✅Team Sky keep Moscon in Romandie despite racial abuse of🌄 Reza
• UCI launches investigationꦜ into Team Sky and Moscon after racial abuse of Reza at Romandie
• Moscon called to Team ꦇSky HQ for disciplinary hearing after racial abuse of Reza