Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) has been penalised by the Tour de France jury after being caught swatting at a Quick-Step Floors rider during the run-in to the finish of stage 10 to Bergerac on Tuesday.
The incident was caught by an overhead camera and shared widely on social media. In the footage, the Quick-Step Floors team is along the right side of the road with around 7.2km to go, when one rider moved into the peloton slightly, bumping into Bouhanni. The Frenchman then raised his right hand off the bars and swung at him.
After the stage, the judges issued Bouhanni with a penalty of one minute in the general classification and a fine of 200 CHF, but did not relegate him from the final sprint in Bergerac, where he finished sixth behind Marcel Kittel.
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It has been an otherwise anonymous Tour de France for Bouhanni, whose best sprint finish of the race has been a fourth place in Vittel.
"I was lacking my legs," Bouhanni said. "Christophe Laporte brought me up to third place at 200 metres, I gave it the maximum, but simply I didn't have the legs. Kittel's won four but I'll just have to keep trying."
A bit longer footage of this incident: http://pic.twitter.com/AOyDgQtAqF
— Karel de Zoete (@kareldezoete) July 11, 2017
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