🎥 Huising takes a hard fall at Eneco Tour, but person responsible may get off with a lenient punishment
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Follow us on GoogleIt was a fantastic race in the third stage of the Eneco Tour. A thrilling battle unfolded in the hills around Sittard, with Visma | Lease a Bike celebrating their new leader, Victor Campenaerts. Menno Huising, however, was less than thrilled after being knocked off his bike by a fellow rider. That rider might have gotten off easy.
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Huising couldn't break away during the race
Visma | Lease a Bike set the pace in Limburg. Huising attacked several times early on but couldn’t break away. Campenaerts did manage to break away: with a select group of outsiders, he slipped away and rode on to join the leading group. There, he and Mick van Dijke proved to be the strongest. The Dutchman claimed the victory, but the Belgian took the leader’s jersey.
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Behind them, Huising and Laporte were extremely active. The Dutch rider, Huising, was tagging along with another group of favourites, including Finn Fisher-Black and Tomas Kopecky. The Kiwi was second in the standings and was hoping to make his move. He tried to surge ahead on a climb, but Huising played his role as a blocker perfectly.
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Mick van Dijke won the stage, and Victor Campenaerts became the new leader.
Huising took hard fall because of Fisher-Black's unusual move
Huising's role clearly frustrated Fisher-Black. He looked back and saw that both Huising and Kopecky were still in position. With a sudden jerk, he swerved to the right. Just at that moment, the Visma | Lease a Bike rider glanced back briefly. He couldn’t avoid a collision: his front wheel struck Fisher-Black’s rear wheel, and he took a hard fall. It made him furious.
“What the f*ck is this?” can be heard on the footage.
Lenient punishment for Fisher-Black
Was it a racing incident, or was the Kiwi's action intentional? The jury had to consider the matter and ultimately concluded that a penalty was the appropriate measure. But a fine of 250 Swiss francs and a 10-point deduction from his UCI ranking will hardly deter him.
He now sits in third place in the general classification, thirty points behind Campenaerts.
Because of his fall, Huising could forget about a good finish. He was 1.19 minutes behind the leader, Jakob Söderqvist, in the standings, but Söderqvist had already fallen through the ice. A solid top-10 finish was within reach, but in the end, the unlucky Dutchman finished 4.40 minutes behind the winner.
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Clarice has been following cycling her whole life, wroting about Thibaut Pinot (among others) for her university magazine while earning her masters in Journalism. She is passionate about furthering equality in sports coverage, and has taken huge inspiration from pillars of women’s cycling like Beryl Burton, Marianne Vos, and Laura Kenny.
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