Remco Evenepoel calls for action against Benoit Cosnefroy as he's blocked out in De Brabantse Pijl men's race

It was an incident packed day on the roads of Belgium for home cyclist Remco Evenepoel after he was involved in a number of flashpoints during the men’s event of De Brabantse Pijl. A coming together with British rider Ben Turner saw the 22-year-old receive a hostile reception from pundits after he pushed Turner while jostling for position. Ad/> Eurosport pundit Adam Blythe said Evenepoel should have been kicked out of the event for his actions, and called him a “spoilt little brat”.

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Evenepoel hopes for retrospective punishment for Cosnefroy. “I hope they rewatch it because it was really dangerous”, he said. “If I don’t break, I crash, and we all crash.

We’ll see what they do with it, but in the end I didn’t have the legs to win today.” Speaking after the race, Evenepoel was gracious in defeat, saying, “Ineos, what can we say, strongest team. Three guys in the front. When they let one guy go like this, and you jump behind and they jump on the wheel, you cannot really do