Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar Group) grew to become the tenth individual to obtain a yellow card from the UCI for security rule violations. The Portuguese rider was penalised for a “deviation from the chosen line that obstructs or endangers one other rider or irregular dash” throughout stage 2 of the Tour of Oman on Sunday.
Guerreiro was initially awarded the identical time because the chasing group behind stage winner Louis Vervaeke (Soudal-QuickStep) after being concerned within the incident together with a number of different riders however was later given the yellow card below the UCI’s new security measures.
If Guerreiro have been to be given a second yellow card on the ultimate Tour of Oman stage on February 12, he could be topic to a seven-day suspension and disqualification from the race.
Movistar rider Ivan Roméo was additionally given a yellow card over the weekend for shoving Gianni Vermeersch (Alpecin-Deceuninck) off the highway throughout Saturday’s stage of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana.
The Spaniard instructed Het Nieuwsblad, “I settle for the punishment as a result of it’s justified. Though this stuff occur on a regular basis.”
To this point this 12 months, the UCI has handed out 11 yellow playing cards, together with three to riders, with Danny van Poppel (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) the primary at Tour Down Below. 4 have been issued to group employees, two to mechanics, and two to different drivers. Mockingly, one was driving the security motorcycle on the Volta a Valenciana.
All 11 people have been allowed to proceed within the competitions as all have been first offences. A second yellow card solely results in disqualification and suspension inside the identical race.
Below the principles, a 3rd yellow card acquired inside 30 days will end in a 14-day suspension, whereas six in a one-year interval will end in a 30-day suspension.
