UCI President David Lappartient accused Team Visma Lease-a-Bike boss Richard Plugge of spreading fake news last night in response to the Dutch team’s boss criticising a team radio ban being trialled at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Pologne.

The Polish WorldTour event is one of two UCI stage races, alongside last week’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Burgos, to trial a restriction on radio or ‘earpieces’ communication durin♌g certain stages.

According to the UCI, the trial 🐷will limit the information riders receive from their team vehicles and directeur sportifs mid-race, encouraging them to make tactical decisions o꧒n the bike, while also staying alert to any safety hazards.

However, Plugge believes th💜e trial has turned races “into a complete farce.” 

He voiced his opinion on after images surfaced of an injured rider at the WorldTour race🅺 lying on the roadside without medical attention. 

The 54-year-old d𝓀escribed the situation as “chaos”, adding that the UCI should cut short their trial scheme. He cont𝓡inued: “We saw in the Olympics where riders cannot call the car for basic assistance (in case of a mechanical). 

“Hopefully, no one⭕ was too badly hu🃏rt today.”

It comes just a week after riders competing in the Paris Olympics road races - an event where race radios ha🌌ve never been used - had mixed reactions to racing🌸 without constant team car communication. 

While there were instances of riders struggling to flag down their support vehicle after a mechanical, many riders praised the type of racing it s♋erves up. Women’s road race silver medallist 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marianne Vos admitted: &l꧂dquo;you have to think on your own, so that makes it interesting.”

In response to Plugge’s 🐠꧃comments, UCI chief Lappartient was adamant that the Dutchman was trying to push his own agenda. 

“You are caught in the act of fake news! Today's crashes at the Tour de Pologne have nothing to do🌸 with the abs✃ence of radios and you know it,” he retorted.

Lappartient went on to state that the riders in questio🅠n “were taken care of according to standards” and that cycling’s governing body’s key priority is safety.

The Frenchman the♛n accused Plugge of wanting to keep team radios for tactical uses and not for safety precautions, insisting the team boss “take responsibility for it!”

He r⛦ounded out his response by calling for Plugge to “continue working together!” in a bid to keep the peace and find an amicable solut🦩ion to the issue.

Hours after Lappartient’s response, EF Education-EasyPost general manager Jonathan Vaughters weighed into the debate, adding &༺ldquo;I’m with Richard.”