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@Roydest@lorenawiebes Point of structure: While @rcssport organizes the event, technical and equipment regulations are enforced exclusively by the independent UCI Commissaires’ Panel appointed for the @UCI_WWT
Federations and local organizers have no jurisdiction over these sporting sanctions.
4 questions for UCI regarding the @lorenawiebes scale discrepancies:
Where is the official calibration certificate for the scale?
What is its exact margin of error given the 50g drift?
What protocol eliminates wind/uneven ground?
Why did this exact bike pass previous checks?
Statement from Team SD Worx–Protime regarding the disqualification of Lorena Wiebes
Team SD Worx – Protime is astonished by the decision of the UCI commissaires' panel that Lorena Wiebes' bicycle did not comply with the minimum weight limit after the first stage of the Giro d'Italia Women, in accordance with UCI Article 2.12.007–2.2. According to the jury, the bicycle weighed 6.78 kilograms and therefore did not meet the UCI's minimum weight requirement of 6.8 kilograms.
The team has serious questions about the bicycle-weighting procedures at the Giro d'Italia Women. For example, there was a weight difference of more than 50 grams between the first and second weighing of Wiebes' bicycle after the finish of the stage in Ravenna.
Wiebes has ridden this bicycle on multiple occasions this season, always with the same setup. She achieved numerous victories on this bike. Moreover, earlier this year, the bicycle was weighed by UCI officials after several races in which Wiebes won sprint finishes convincingly. On each occasion, the bicycle's weight was found to be comfortably above the 6.8-kilogram limit. The team therefore does not understand how the very same bicycle could now suddenly be measured below the minimum weight requirement.
Team SD Worx – Protime believes that Wiebes' disqualification is an exceptionally severe sanction. In a flat sprint stage, unlike a mountain stage, a small reduction in weight provides virtually no advantage. This is certainly true for a rider like Wiebes, who won the sprint in Ravenna by three bicycle lengths.
Team SD Worx – Protime, a leading team in the women's peloton for the past fifteen years, has no explanation for why Wiebes' bicycle was found to be under the minimum weight on this occasion.
@kingblem@lorenawiebes You can’t make this up, Gary.
The official UCI Clarification Guide (Article 1.3.019) literally uses a photo of a scale hanging off a gazebo/partytent to illustrate their official procedure. Your exact point from the Froome era, documented by themselves.
https://t.co/wq4RO5aJjS