Peter Sagan’s Bora-Hansgrohe team lose appeal against Tour de France expulsion to CAS
Written by News on 06/07/2017
Peter Sagan’s Bora-Hansgrohe team have lost their appeal against his expulsion from the Tour de France to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Sagan was thrown out of the race on Tuesday for his part in a pair of crashes on stage four which saw sprint rival Mark Cavendish forced out of the race by a fractured shoulder.
The world champion appeared to elbow Cavendish into the barriers and the Briton was unable to avoid coming down, also causing John Degenkolb and Ben Swift to crash.
He was initially penalised points, but a ruling came down later in the day that he had been disqualified.
His German team appealed to CAS in the hope of having Sagan re-instated in the race, which continued with stage six on Thursday, but they soon knew their fate with the result coming a couple of hours later.
A statement from CAS read: "The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) issued a decision rejecting an urgent request for provisional measures filed by the Slovak cyclist Peter Sagan and the Denk Pro Cycling team in the afternoon of July 5 2017.
"The rider and team appealed the exclusion of the rider by the UCI Commissaires Panel on 4 July 2017 following an incident during the sprint phase at the end of the 4th stage of the 2017 Tour de France (Mondorf-les-Bains to Vittel).
"Accordingly, Peter Sagan remains disqualified from the 2017 Tour de France."
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