Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo) could only watch angrily from behind the podium area as Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) pulled on the blue leader's jersey after stage 3 at the Dubai Tour.
The young Dutch sprinter finished 10th in the sprint behind stage winner Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) but was confident he would keep the race lead. However, he was soon informed by race officials that he had been penalised 20 seconds for taking a tow in the slipstream of his LottoNL-Jumbo team car with 60km to go following a bike change as the race was splitting into two echelons.
The penalty meant Groenewegen slipped to 42nd in the overall classification, 18 seconds down on Viviani. He kept the lead in the points classification and so pulled on the red jersey but with only two stages left to race his chances of overall success were gone.
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Groenewegen tried to ride away from the podium area without speaking to the media but when Cyclingnews asked him to stop and speak, he did.
He sportingly accepted the judge's decision but he was angry that problems with his bike had cost him dearly. He dropped the F-word four times in just four sentences.
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