The Danish Cycling Union (DCU) has reinstated the elite males’s time trial title of Alpecin-Deceuninck rider Johan Price-Pejtersen seven months after he was disqualified from the occasion for using on the pavement.
25-year-old Price-Pejtersen, then using for Bahrain Victorious, gained the title with a 47:06 time on the 41km course in Herning final June, beating Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) to victory by simply two seconds.
However, after the race, the previous under-23 world time trial champion noticed his newly gained title stripped after he was caught racing alongside the pavement by the street within the late levels of the race.
Price-Pejtersen, who additionally gained European under-23 time trial titles in 2019 and 2021, was stripped of fifty UCI factors for successful and handed a advantageous of 200CHF.
On Tuesday, the DCU introduced the reversal of the disqualification, which got here after Price-Pejtersen had appealed towards the choice.
“The DCU’s disciplinary committee has thought of the case relating to Johan Price-Pejtersen’s disqualification and advantageous on the Danish Championships time trial and the next ruling is made,” learn a statement issued by the DCU.
“The case towards Johan Price-Pejtersen, the place the Danish Cycling Union’s Commissioner panel on 21 June 2024 issued an order, ‘DM Communiqué No. 1, time trial’, by which Johan Price Peitersen was sentenced to the next sanction: Disqualification, advantageous CHF 200,- and 50 factors from the UCI rating checklist’, is put aside and reversed, in order that Johan Price Peitersen is simply sentenced to a sanction in keeping with the UCI rules, Article 2.12.07: §7.6 with a advantageous of CHF 200 and deprivation of 25 UCI factors from the UCI rating checklist.”
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In quick, Price-Pejtersen has now been handed again his nationwide time trial title, whereas his UCI factors deduction has been lowered to 25 factors, and his advantageous has remained in place.
Following the disqualification final summer season, Skjelmose took to Instagram to write down that he had “nice sympathy” for Price-Pejtersen, noting that he did not push for the choice – “fairly the other”. He provided the jersey and medal to Price-Pejtersen, who he referred to as a “good buddy”.
“I want to categorical my nice sympathy for Johan, who will not be solely a implausible time trialist, as we noticed yesterday, however whom I contemplate buddy within the peloton. I’ve due to this fact provided Johan that he can have each the Danish Championship jersey and medals that I used to be offered with – to acknowledge his achievement, in order that it doesn’t go down in historical past as a pure annoyance,” Skjelmose wrote.
On Tuesday, Skjelmose advised Danish information company Ritzau through textual content message that he’s focussed on the brand new racing season and had not been concerned in Price-Pejtersen’s enchantment.
“I solely know in regards to the new resolution through the media, however regardless, I’ve not been concerned within the proceedings for the reason that race, and I cannot achieve this now,” he wrote. “I’m at present focussed on the season that’s about to begin and haven’t any additional feedback on the choice.”
According to UCI regulation 2.2.025, “It is strictly prohibited to make use of sidewalks, paths or cycle paths that don’t type a part of the course as outlined in article 2.2.015, separated by kerbs, verges, stage modifications or different bodily options.”
Penalties for infringements (dependant on race stage) embrace a CHF200-1,000 advantageous plus a deduction of 15-25 UCI factors, a yellow card, and a possible time penalty, downgrading of outcome, or disqualification of the rider’s outcome “in severe circumstances of benefit, endangerment, repeated infringements or aggravated circumstances.”