2023-07-29 04:07:08
Following his remarks after the 20-second penalty imposed on Demi Vollering, Danny Stam, the sporting director of SD Worx has been excluded.
The SD Worx team will now have to deal without Danny Stam, its sports director, on the roads of the Tour de France Women. While the duel at the top between Demi Vollering and Annemiek van Vleuten will end this weekend with two capital meetings, on the slopes of Tourmalet this Saturday then around Pau this Sunday for a final time trial, the boss of the Dutch formation was excluded by the commissioners.
The former track racer pays a high price for his comments made on Thursday after the 20-second penalty imposed on Demi Vollering for taking shelter behind his car after a puncture. « It’s ridiculous. I hope that on Sunday, (the judges) will be able to look at themselves in the mirror with a satisfied face and that they will not say to themselves: “We have screwed up the Tour for a few seconds”», he cursed, adding: “If we lose 20 seconds because of this, with the UCI supporting the decision, I wonder if these people are capable of leading a race. »
The SD Worx formation welcomed the exclusion of Danny Stam with more restraint. “We are surprised, but accept the measure. We may have reacted too emotionally to the penalty at the time,” the team said in a statement. While Demi Vollering will try to turn the Tour around this Saturday, SD Worx will continue the race with Anna van der Breggen as its first sporting director.
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