The UCI has delivered a hefty penalty to Lars Forster (Thömus maxon) and Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM) for defying the recent regulation change, which saw the UCI Whoop Mountain Bike World Series elite cross-country Olympic (XCO) podiums cut down from five to three riders.
The fourth and fifth-placed duo jumped onto the elite men’s podium at Brazil’s opening round on Sunday in a move to support a widespread rider campaign to keep the long-embedded five-rider podium alive.
