Not only the two motorcyclists who hindered Pogacar during his breakaway on the Col de Joux were penalized, the yellow jersey wearer Jonas Vingegaard was also fined by the competition jury after stage 14. The reason: the Jumbo-Visma leader went to pee on the way.
‘If you have to pee, you have to pee’, Jonas Vingegaard must have thought during stage 14 to Morzine. The yellow jersey wearer was fined for urinating in public. According to the UCI, he made that mistake after 81 kilometers into the race. The Dane has to cough up 200 Swiss francs.
Sports director Rik Verbrugghe of Israel-Premier Tech was also fined 500 Swiss francs. The caretaker Dymtro Borysov was too far down the road and was a danger, the competition jury ruled.
And fines: sports director Steve Cummings of Ineos-Grenadiers was fined 200 Swiss francs for a sticky bottle. Because Michal Kwiatkowski was the man who held the drinking bottle too long to be sucked by the car, he received the same penalty.
