Samuele Battistella was declared the winner of the U23 road race at the World Championships after Dutchman Nils Eeckhoff was disqualified for ‘illegally drafted behind a team car’.
The 21-year-old crashed early on the race, a fall that also caused a dislocation of the shoulder that he put back himself. In the footage he seems to grab a sticky bottle and then he used some drafting to return to the peloton.
Full video of the #eekhoffgate episode
UCI had a 124 kilometers to take action.@nilseekhoff is the ??U23 World Champion to me pic.twitter.com/NihEw5cqm4— Alex Rasmussen (@alexfalkeman) September 27, 2019
