Seven of the eight UAE Team Emirates riders on the Vuelta a España have been fined 500 Swiss Francs and docked 15 UCI factors apiece for sporting an unauthorised jersey through the crew presentation in Lisbon on Thursday.
Jay Vine, who missed the presentation, is the one UAE rider to keep away from the sanction, which was introduced by the race jury within the communiqué printed after stage 1 on Saturday night. Directeur sportif Marco Marcato was additionally fined 500 Swiss Francs.
The communiqué said that the UAE riders had been sanctioned for “Non-compliant clothes throughout crew shows. (Not autorhized jersey by UCI) [sic].”
UAE Team Emirates took to the rostrum on the crew presentation on Thursday night sporting a particular version package with pink and yellow particulars on the chest and sleeves to mark Tadej Pogačar’s Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double.
Pogačar opted in opposition to trying a Grand Tour treble on the Vuelta, preferring to give attention to constructing in direction of the World Championships highway race in Zürich on September 29.
Despite Pogačar’s absence, UAE Team Emirates have a powerful likelihood of finishing a sweep of Grand Tour victories this season, thus emulating Jumbo-Visma’s feat of a 12 months in the past.
João Almeida and Adam Yates – who positioned fourth and sixth general, respectively, on the Tour – lead the UAE Team Emirates line-up on the Vuelta, the place the thrilling neo-professional Isaac del Toro additionally strains up for his Grand Tour debut.
And though their crew presentation jerseys didn’t cross muster with the commissaires, UAE Team Emirates claimed an important garment of all on stage 1, as Brandon McNulty proved quickest on the time trial course to Oeiras to take possession of the maillot rojo.
McNulty units out from Cascais on stage 2 with a lead of two seconds on Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek) and three on dangerman Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike).
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