{"id":122055,"date":"2025-09-08T03:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:53:09","slug":"remco-evenepoel-handed-fine-and-points-penalty-for-improper-conduct-in-tour-of-britain-stage-win-after-brake-checking-manoeuvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122055\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel handed fine and points penalty for improper conduct in Tour of Britain stage win after brake-checking manoeuvre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Belgian Olympic road race champion was leading a small group chasing two leaders inside the final 2km of the stage when he appeared to brake sharply.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel has now been sanctioned for improper conduct towards another rider, receiving a fine of CHF100 and a penalty of 10 UCI points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was not given a yellow card or a time penalty on the general classification, though, meaning his two-second deficit behind overall Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ) remained heading into Sunday\u2019s final stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evenepoel edged in front just over 300m from the finish line on Saturday, before out-sprinting Thomas Gloag (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL) to claim the stage.<\/p>\n

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Evenepoel sprints across line to win Stage 5 of Tour of Britain<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been quite a search for [a win],” Evenepoel conceded. “In the end I\u2019m happy to take a stage win here.<\/p>\n

“Last year I didn\u2019t get a stage win so it feels good to be here with some better legs and some better results as well. I was very happy with the stage win. I\u2019m very satisfied.<\/p>\n

“It feels really good [to win] with the headwind. I [started sprinting] from 200m so I was hesitating, [worried] that the guys would overtake me.<\/p>\n

“But in the end, I think my sprint was strong enough to make it to the line. Having won the sprint today, it\u2019s maybe a bit of a shame about my [performance] yesterday, because it would have been maybe a bit different in terms of general classification.<\/p>\n

“But in the end, that\u2019s cycling, so we have to look to tomorrow and enjoy this one.”<\/p>\n

When asked if the victory in Wales could be used as a source of encouragement ahead of the Road World Championships later this month in Rwanda, the Belgian said: “Yeah, for sure.<\/p>\n

“I’ve done quite some work for the team already – for our sprinter. Also I’m sometimes riding a bit more after the stages.<\/p>\n

“It’s not that I’m here only for the racing – I\u2019m really here to improve myself and test myself. So for the moment all goes well and I feel that I\u2019m on the right track, so that’s very positive.”<\/p>\n

Watch and stream the remainder of the cycling season, including La Vuelta, live on TNT Sports and discovery+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Belgian Olympic road race champion was leading a small group chasing two leaders inside the final 2km…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,7133,101,54818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-122055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-sports","tag-tour-of-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}