Race officers relegated and fined Demi Vollering for celebrating behind FDJ-SUEZ teammate Loes Adegeest on the ultimate stage of the Volta a Catalunya Feminas in Barcelona on Sunday.
The gesture violated a new-for-2025 UCI rule that bans riders from endangering their rivals by celebrating or intentionally slowing down throughout a dash end.
“Oops, this end photograph prices me a 100 Swiss franc nice, UCI factors [3 -ed] and my sixth place,” Vollering posted on Instagram.
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Vollering was relegated to 58th place, nevertheless it didn’t have an effect on her standing within the last total classification, which she gained by 2:08 over teammate Elise Chabbey. Visma-Lease a Bike’s Marion Bunel was third.
“However one heck of a photograph, do not you assume?” Vollering wrote atop a replica of the photograph above. “No, severely, I will not do it once more, at I will least attempt. It is a arduous rule to get used to, however I promise. I perceive the significance of those guidelines round security.”
Vollering’s staff gained all three levels of the Volta a Catalunya. Chabbey gained the opening stage forward of Vollering, who turned across the subsequent day and soloed to the win on the Coll de Pal. Lastly, Adegeest gained the bunch dash in Barcelona.
The general win was Vollering’s fourth of the season in Spanish stage races after she claimed the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana in February, and the Vuelta España Femenina and girls’s Itzulia final month.
