On an otherwise sleepy day at the Tour de France, where Marcel Kittel's dominance of the bunch sprints continued, things were livened up somewhat by the emergence of video footage showing an altercation between Nacer Bouhanni and Jack Bauer. Bouhanni was soon fined CHF200 and docked one minute for swinging his arm at Kittel's teammate. The morning after, however, both parties were keen to play down any sense of rising controversy.
Bouhanni would not talk about the incident in Eymet ahead of stage 11, with Cofidis manager Yvon Sanquer instead sent out to deal with questions from the media.
"First of all you have to respect the decision of the commissaires," he began, though it soon became clear he did not consider his rider the only guilty party.
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"You have to watch the six-second video, and look really closely at the first two seconds of it in order to have the complete picture," he told Cyclingnews.
Indeed, as the incident – as is customary these days – was spliced up into looping videos, what caught the eye was Bouhanni's right arms leaving his bars to lash out sideways at Bauer, though it would appear that the Quick-Step Floors rider had already given the Frenchman a nudge of his own.
"It's always easy on Twitter and what not, to cut videos, and see what you want to see, and then add your own comments." Despite the refusal to face the media, Sanquer said that the incident – the latest in a long line of indiscretions for his big money rider – had "not really affected" Bouhanni and that, with a stage win to fight for, "there's no energy to lose on these things."
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