Trek suspends one of its runners for his "incendiary and nefarious" tweets in support of Trump

The Trek-Segafredo team suspended their rider

, 19,

"until further notice"

after tweets in favor of

"inflammatory and disastrous" for professional cycling.

The reigning junior world champion en route had become entangled with a Dutch journalist who advised supporters of the US president not to follow him on this social network.

Simmons, one of the young promises of world cycling, responded to

with a brief "goodbye", accompanied by a black hand.

This emoticon elicited the reply from another American cyclist,

: "You can discuss everything about politics, but use a black hand?"

The journalist also referred to Simmons as a "trumper", to which the former runner was quick to reply: "That's right", with an emoticon of an American flag.

All of this conversation from Been, which started shortly after the first election debate between Donald Trump and

, was later deleted from his Twitter account.

"His words and actions"

Racism has been one of the axes of the electoral campaign in the US, which will hold its presidential elections on November 4.

In recent months, the entire country was inundated with demonstrations protesting the deaths of

, the black woman killed by police, and

, who was suffocated in the neck by another officer.

"Trek-Segafredo is an organization that values ​​inclusion and supports a more diverse and equitable sport for all. While we support the right to freedom of expression, we will hold people accountable for their words and actions," commented the training in a release.

In this way, Simmons must end his classic season, which continues this month with the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix (October 18 and 25).

His participation in the Flecha-Walloon on Wednesday had resulted in 135th place.

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