Two riders disqualified from the Tour of Flanders for getting confused

Fedorov (blue jersey) couldn't finish the 2021 Tour of Flanders. -

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Two Tour of Flanders riders, the Belgian Otto Vergaerde and the Kazakh Yevgeniy Fedorov, were excluded for dangerous behavior from the first hour of the race.

At ... 240 kilometers from the finish in Oudenaarde, Vergaerde (Alpecin), a teammate of the outgoing winner Mathieu van der Poel, shoved Fedorov with his shoulder, who wanted to revive the pace of the peloton pointed at about forty seconds off the breakaway.

Yevgeniy Fedorov and Otto Vergaerde have been disqualified from # RVV21 for the below incident 👇 pic.twitter.com/bxf3LFnWZt

- Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) April 4, 2021

In response, the Kazakh team Astana sought to cut him off, resulting in a comparable sanction from the stewards.

: “Fedorov wanted to try something behind the breakaway, but he braked.

He almost brought me down.

I reacted.

It's a shame to let the team down.

I was the one who was assigned to ride behind the breakaway, ”commented Vergaerde hot.

Sure that his leader did not appreciate. 

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