UAE Team Emirates react to Giro d'Italia TT time penalties
23 May 2018 03:55
UAE Team Emirates reacted to the time penalties given to three of their riders following the stage 16 time trial at the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday night. Team leader Fabio Aru was given a 20-second penalty, while Diego Ulissi and Valerio Conti were both handed two-minute penalties. Aru – who fell entirely out of contention for the general classification by losing almost 20 minutes to race leader Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) on stage 15 to Sappada on Sunday – played down any inference that he had tried to gain any sort of advantage during the TT. "Thanks to the support of the tifosi when I got off the bus [ahead of the stage], I decided to give it everything in the time trial," Aru said, who had started the day in 22nd place overall, 25:14 minutes behind Yates.ADVERTISEMENT "I respect the commissaires' decision," Aru continued, "but there was no intention to gain an unfair advantage. During the race, I caught some riders and in those sections of road there were motorbikes and cars. The commissaires may have decided to punish me while there was unintentionally a vehicle a short distance ahead of me."
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