Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) has launched a pointed attack on the way race results were changed not once but twice after stage 3 of Itzulia Basque Country, which saw the Frenchman promoted from second to the stage winner, only to lose that top spot again and drop back to second.
Spanish National Champion Alex Aranburu, first across the line at Beasain, was finally declared the winner of stage 3, after an initial penalisation deprived the Cofidis racer of the victory. It was claimed Aranburu had taken a 'short cut' in the final kilometre by taking a right, not a left, round a roundabout.
