The UCI issued extra yellow playing cards than ever earlier than on the weekend, with riders punished with eight yellow playing cards and a swat of fines for using on footpaths, sparking crashes, and even throwing a bidon that bounced off a automotive again into the peloton.
The UCI has issued greater than 50 yellow playing cards to this point through the 2025 season, itemizing all of them on a particular web page of the UCI web site.
Group workers, directeur sportif and even photographers and tv crew motorbikes might be punished and given yellow playing cards as a part of measures that purpose to enhance security inside the peloton. On Monday, the UCI confirmed that crew workers can be given yellow playing cards for inflicting hazard within the feed zone throughout races.
Two yellow playing cards throughout the identical occasion result in disqualification and suspension for seven days, and the penalty for 3 playing cards in 30 days is a 14-day suspension. Six playing cards over 52 weeks can result in a 30-day suspension.
Danny van Poppel (Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) are the one riders to be slapped with two yellow playing cards, for a mix of deviating from the sprinters line, celebrating a teammates victory and so attainable endangering different rides, and different misdemeanours.
On Sunday, Jordi Meeus (Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was given a belated yellow card after he rode up the within of the peloton on the footpath earlier than a nook after which sparked a crash at Gent-Wevelgem. Eurosport Netherlands described Meeus’s manoeuvre as ‘kamikaze’ in a clip on social media.
The USA’s Lily Williams took a memorable seventh within the girls’s Gent-Wevelgem race however was then given a yellow card for “Throwing of objects in a careless or harmful method onto the street or spectators.”
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Williams tried to throw a bidon in the direction of some spectators, nevertheless it hit a bar and bounced again into the peloton. The UCI guidelines state {that a} yellow card can solely be awarded for a second bidon offence, however William’s yellow card is confirmed on the UCI web site.
Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) completed second in Gent-Wevelgem however was punished with a yellow card, docked 25 UCI rating factors and fined 500 Swiss Francs ($560) for using on a footpath. Giousè Epis (Arkea-B&B Resorts) was given the identical punishment, with a sway of directeur sportif fined 500 Swiss Francs for an unidentified rider utilizing the footpath through the race.
These included Christophe Roodhoft (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Ken Vanmarcke (EF Schooling-EasyPost), Gino Van Oudenhove (Uno-X Mobility), Maarten Wynants (Visma-Lease a Bike), Stefano Zanini (XDS Astana), Jurgen Roelandts (Movistar), Dimitri Claeys (Intermarche) and Hans De Clerq (Lotto). Iljo Keisse (Soudal-Quickstep) was hit with a 1000 Swiss Franc nice for 2 unidentified riders utilizing the footpath.
Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease A Bike) was given a 500 Swiss Franc nice and docked 25 UCI factors for littering outdoors a waste zone, whereas a photographer’s bike pilot was given a yellow card and disqualified from the race for failing to respect the directions of commissaires.
Corbin Robust (Israel-Premier Tech) was given a yellow automotive on Saturday after stage 6 of the Volta a Catalunya for deviating from his line within the dash, whereas Juan Pedro López was punished for celebrating and so decelerating throughout teammate Quinn Simmons‘s victory.
Julius Johansen (UAE TRam Emirates-XRG) was additionally punished on the Volta a Catalunya on Sunday for utilizing “a non-compliant place or level of assist on the bicycle that represents a hazard to the rider or opponents,” likely for utilizing an aerotuck place through the quick descent of the Montjuïc circuit.
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