Jan-Willem van Schip appeared to be in combine for a medal within the males’s Elimination race on Sunday on the UCI Monitor World Championships. Relatively than dash within the three-up lap towards eventual winner Tobias Aagaard Hansen (Denmark) and silver medallist Elia Viviani (Italy), Van Schip was relegated for “harmful driving”, then disqualified for “insults, threats, improper conduct”.
Following the misconduct in public show, nationwide coach Nick Stöpler changed Van Schip with Vincent Hoppezak within the males’s Madison, the ultimate occasion of the Monitor Worlds on Sunday, the place the feisty rider would have been in a position to defend his title with Yoeri Havik. Hoppezak and Havik completed sixth within the 200-lap race.
The frantic Elimination race was the third of 5 medal occasions on Sunday at Ballerup Tremendous Area in Denmark, the place a lot of the 23 riders contended with crashes and a variety of controversial rulings by the jury.
Jules Hesters (Belgium) was eliminated in an early spherical for “harmful driving” in a detailed go and a push towards Edibaldo Maldonado Rayas (Mexico). Three laps later Blake Agnoletto (Australia) was relegated for inflicting a crash.
Then with 5 riders remaining on the monitor, Jan-Willem van Schip (Netherlands) crossed the road fourth in entrance of Diogo Narciso (Portugal), having made a detailed go moments earlier than. On the following lap with Van Schip driving forward of Dylan Bibic (Canada), the jury relegated the Dutchman for “harmful driving” towards Narciso and eliminated him from the race.
As a substitute of transferring into the medal spherical, the place Bibic went on to take the bronze, Van Schip stormed off the monitor. However as a substitute of departing the world, he was reported to have cursed on the UCI and directed an obscene hand gesture in the direction of officers, in each situations in entrance of spectators.
Van Schip was then disqualified for “for assault, intimidation, insults, threats, improper conduct directed at some other particular person”.
Van Schip was famous on social media by Staff Netherlands as a medal hope on the ultimate day of competitors, trying “to take revenge” for a disappointing efficiency on the Paris Olympic Video games the place he was additionally disqualified. In that occasion, he was competing within the Madions with Yoeri Havik and was disqualified for inflicting Oliver Wooden to crash utilizing his head to push the British rider.
Hesters was very sad along with his relegation, ending a good distance from medal rivalry in 18th, however saved his reactions for out of doors the sector of play.
“I really feel robbed,” was the blunt response Hesters gave to Sporza afterwards.
“I’ve accomplished issues mistaken within the race myself and I do know that. However now I actually really feel like I’ve been robbed. I’m not even touching that rider. It’s incomprehensible.
“Now my World Championship is over and I am at an obstacle. There are riders who get away with every part after which I am singled out for one thing like that. I am going to should recover from it, but it surely does really feel like a reckoning.”
He referred to a disqualification he obtained two years in the past in the identical occasion on the European Championships, and stated, “That was honest then. Since then I’ve the sensation that I’m being unfairly scrutinized. At the moment I actually do not get it. I believe it’s completely unfair.”
Van Schip’s behaviour was the destructive a part of the tumultuous conclusion. The Danish crowd most well-liked to rejoice a second gold for the nation on Sunday, Hansen successful proper after Julie Leth took the gold medal within the girls’s Factors race.
With these two gold medals, Denmark took two gold medals on the fifth and last day of competitors on the Ballerup Tremendous Area outdoors Copenhagen to match Nice Britain and the Netherlands with 4 gold medals for every nation.
