Greipel criticises moto driver for allowing Roglic to draft
Andre Greipel questioned the fairness of Primoz Roglic’s jump into the leader’s jersey at the Volta ao Algarve on Friday, posting a photo of a race motorbike closely in front of the Slovenian during the stage 3 time trial.
Greipel said he had no complaints with Roglic himself - "every rider would do the same" - but was unhappy with the marshal's failure to accelerate and prevent Roglic from entering the slipstream.
"FairPlay that is what we want @UCI_cycling?" Greipel wrote on Twitter with a photo of Roglic behind the moto. He then added: "Guys don't get me wrong-every rider-including me would do the same and use the slipstream.... so @rogla can't do anything about it."
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His complaints echo similar ones made recently by Dan Martin, who posted a photo of a two-man break behind a moto at the Tour of Oman, with the caption, 'Always great to watch another round of the Motorpacing World Series'. Tosh Van der Sande posted a similar photo from the Ruta del Sol on Thursday, saying "This has to stop! Either you buy a proper telelens or you ride on the other side of the road... #notfair."
¡El tras moto de @rogla! #valgarve2017 http://pic.twitter.com/EwfrODEjJE
— Alpe d'Huez B&T (@Alpe__dHuez) February 17, 2017
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