UCI sanctions Cynisca Cycling after mechanic fradulently posed as rider

Cynisca Cycling
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The UCI has sanctioned women’s Continental Team Cynisca Cycling afte𝐆r 🎉they were deemed to have participated in fraud with a team mechanic presenting as one of their riders at the start of the Argenta Classic last July. 

In the governing body’s reconstruction of events, the Ameri🤪can team were required to have five riders to compete at the race, but the four “physically present at the venue” were instructed to “lie about the whereabouts of a fifth rider” under instructions from Sports Director, Danny Van Haute to state she was present but ill.

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