{"id":54625,"date":"2026-04-23T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:30:08","slug":"tom-pidcock-fined-at-the-tour-of-the-alps-for-crossing-the-finish-line-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54625\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock fined at the Tour of the Alps for crossing the finish line twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tom-pidcock\" title=\"Tom Pidcock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Pidcock<\/a>\u2019s resurgence continued this week, but the Briton\u2019s latest day at the race ended with an unexpected fine after a post-stage mistake near the finish line.The <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/pinarello-q365-pro-cycling-team\" title=\"Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team<\/a> rider has looked increasingly sharp since a difficult opening day, when he crossed the line after stage one and admitted it had been \u201cthe worst day on the bike of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>After completing the stage, Pidcock began the usual recovery routine. He cooled down, drank his recovery shake and then rolled back onto the road for some post-race pedalling.<\/p>\n<p>That is where the problem began. While spinning the legs out after the finish, Pidcock passed through the finish line area once again, travelling in the same direction as the race had done earlier. He was still wearing his race number, and officials quickly noted the infringement.<\/p>\n<p>Under race regulations, once a rider has finished, and while the time limit for the remaining riders is still running, competitors are not permitted to cross the finish line in the race direction while still displaying their race number or using a bike carrying the frame number.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour of the Alps<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourofthealps.eu\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> race jury later confirmed the sanction<\/a>: Pidcock breached Article 1.6: \u201cTo cross the finish line in the direction of the race whilst still wearing the race number or frame number\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The offence resulted in a fine of 100 Swiss francs, with no further sporting penalties applied and no impact on points or overall classifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock\u2019s resurgence continued this week, but the Briton\u2019s latest day at the race ended with an unexpected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,88,3638,3636],"class_list":{"0":"post-54625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-pinarello-q36-5-pro-cycling-team","11":"tag-tom-pidcock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116456628112909092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}