Demi Vollering drafted a little too much behind her SD Worx team car on the way back to the bunch during stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The commissaires were not impressed and handed her a 20-second penalty!
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26 Comments
100 % right cheating..
CHEATING LITTLE BEEATCH 🫵🏻👊🏻💥🫵🏻
I mean it's normal to use SOME Draft while coming back after a defect and the car was actually the number 1 car, which was meant to be right behind the peloton but this was a bit extreme, they were even overtaking other riders.
Cycling needs to clear up the drafting rules. Same with sticky bottles. It's odd because the UCI loves making arbitrary rules to remind the riders who's in control. Whether you have to get stickers on your frame, or riders prohibited from holding handle bars in certain positions, etc. Yet drafting and sticky bottles continues to be an enormous gray area.
If she would have been French, nothing would have happened
blatant
Les bidons collantes 😂. Superbe, non?
& the sticky bottle collection later was cheating, should have been given another time penalty & fine.
Cheating cheating cheating
She's my favourite woman rider, but this is pure cheating. Simple as
Ignored those whistles for a bit huh 😂
That's normal in cycling. To get back in the peloton is hard without some help…I would change the rules about that if it is just a few seconds…
That finger wag said "Next time don't make it so obvious, dummy."
Sorry, dipping in and out is okay, and moving up through the cars, but to sit on her own car all the way up is scandalous. People have been dq'd in the WC road race for this.
lol
The problem is using your own car to accelerate massively back to the bunch. If you made it back then worked through the cars it is fine.
she got off easy. it should have been 1
Hope that guy tumbles off the back of that moto bike
What a cheat 😂
Newbie snail cyclist. Haha.
you draft as you approach and swing out around a car, you don't tuck in behind a car and let them pull you up to the peloton
These 20 seconds penalty is a shame and a joke. Male riders do that all the time after a crash or flat tire…😮
DQ for Danny Stam is a joke too…..
They're all cheating.
sure, way to end this nonsense is to let them use the cars to get back on all of them have bad luck. You’ll have to fine tune it but why not?
Check the rules: she is allowed to draft, but not by a car overtaking the line-up. Therefore and only therefore is the penalty justified. All comments on drafting in general are by dummies.
As deserved, the rules on drafting is very clear. They will turn a blind eye if you are jumping from one car to the next, but sitting behind is a no, no.
They knew. She probably safes more with drafting in this case even with a penalty