{"id":26586,"date":"2025-07-27T05:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26586\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:37:08","slug":"uci-fines-own-driver-after-dangerous-tour-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26586\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI fines own driver after dangerous Tour descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos unfolded on <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/another-australian-escapee-earns-a-tour-stage-on-penultimate-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stage 19 of the Tour de France<\/a> when a certain red race vehicle, carrying top UCI and Tour officials, nearly collided with French riders K\u00e9vin Vauquelin and Ewen Costiou on a descent. The duo, chasing the peloton after being dropped on the Col du Pr\u00e9, was nearly sideswiped as the car attempted a reckless overtake. <a href=\"https:\/\/sporza.be\/nl\/2025\/07\/25\/-wat-een-randdebielen-bestuurder-koersjury-krijgt-alsnog-gele-kaart-voor-gevaarlijk-manoeuvre~1753451990378\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Initially ignored in the official report<\/a>, the incident was only sanctioned the following day. Driver Ismael Mottier received a 500 Swiss Franc fine and a yellow card\u2014from the very UCI jury member seated beside him during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Classic.<\/p>\n<p>On the penultimate day of the Tour de France, Kaden Groves timed it perfectly out of a reduced breakaway to win Stage 20 into Pontarlier. The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider launched early and held off a scrambling group after a lumpy 184 km ride. It was the team\u2019s third stage victory of this Tour, each taken by a different rider. Behind, the GC riders played it safe. Tadej Poga\u010dar finished comfortably in yellow and looks set to seal overall victory in Paris, while Florian Lipowitz all but secured third place and a rare podium for Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Tour de France concludes with its traditional, but not traditional romp into Paris. Although the laps on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es will still happen, there\u2019ll be a bit of ouch as they do some of the Olympics course\u2014that means going up the tough and steep Montmartre climb 3 times. Sure, it\u2019s not like in 2024 when the riders went up that ramp 20 times\u2014but it might tenderize some already very, very tenderized gams. But meanwhile, the Tour de France Femmes has begun! So lot\u2019s more bike racin\u2019, sports fans.<\/p>\n<p>Anywho, check out the incident below.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"nl\">Voor wie in de illusie leeft dat organisatie\/jury ook maar iets om de veiligheid van renners geeft.. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TDF2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TourDeFrance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TourDeFrance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjINPe44xA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EjINPe44xA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John den Braber OLY (@JohndenBraber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohndenBraber\/status\/1948743954985353626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaos unfolded on Stage 19 of the Tour de France when a certain red race vehicle, carrying top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[16594,4985,101,16595,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2025-tour-de-france","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uci","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","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=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}