The race jury disqualified Visma-Lease a Bike rider Axel Zingle from the E3 Saxo Classic after the Frenchman held onto a team car to get back into the peloton following a puncture.
The punishment came after a Belgian cycling fan with the handle Lv_Cycling posted a video taken from the roadside to X that showed Zingle in the midst of holding onto either the team car (towing) or a bidon held by its driver (sticky bottle) for the entire five-second clip, if not longer.
