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Gianni Moscon (piture - Team Sky).JPGTeam Sky suspend Gianni Moscon for six weeks for racial abuse
Team Sky has suspended 23-year-old Italian rider Gianni Moscon from racing for six weeks for racially abusing the FDJ rider Kevin Reza at the Tour of Romandie last week.
in a statement released this evening, the UCI WorldTour team said:
Following a disciplinary meeting with Team Sky concerning an incident at the Tour of Romandie, Gianni Moscon has been given a formal written warning and suspended from racing for six weeks. He will also attend a diversity awareness course.
Gianni recognises that his behaviour was wrong and how seriously Team Sky take this kind of incident.
He apologised to Kevin Reza after the stage and again to him and his team the following morning, and this apology was accepted. Gianni knows that there is no excuse for his behaviour and that any repeat will result in termination of his contract.
The sanction is separate to any that may be imposed on Moscon by world cycling's governing body, the UCI, which said at the weekend that it is investigating the incident.
Moscon, who comes from Trento in north east Italy, is a rising star within Team Sky.
Last year he won the overall at the Arctic Tour of Norway, and just three weeks ago finished fifth at Paris-Roubaix.
While he wasn't named in the team's squad for the Giro d'Italia, which starts on Friday, his suspension comes at a busy time of the season and will rule him out of participating in races such as the Tour of California.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Inhumane system that now will be getting even worse.
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Didn't you just prove my point on lazy stereotyping...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Fuck off, you stupid idiot.
Ha ha ha ha... that was a valuable contribution!
Another example of how the people of this country have lost the ability to doiscuss and to educate, replaced by knee jerk name calling.
"you don't agree with me... well cleary you are a ...... (fill in with horrific expletieve / slur of choice)"
Out of interest, how does this approach work for you? Is it winning friends, or is it causing opinions to become ever more polarised?
How's it working for you? Please, let's "doiscuss" the matter.
Ah, you missed at least one more typo in my comment. Could have really shown me up there... really demonstrated that my comment was not worthy of discussion.
I'm confused as to why a 'grammar police' comment was worthy of 'likes'.
It's only a name Jimmy, like you said earlier - just move on. What's with the snowflake act son.
You ignored my question though, didn't you?
Argument lost much when you descend to the gutter. In fact you had no argument as you so colourfully proved.
Should have been an instant dismisal, racial abuse should not be tolerated in society. Team Sky have lost me as a supporter.
They probably never had you as one in the first place so nothing lost. Cheap words but deeds are harder. You overlook the obvious, i.e. the legalities of what can and cannot be done in a disciplinary matter. There is a contract between SKY and Moscon which is one level, the UCI regulations are the next level and at the top level there is the law in the relevant jurisdiction(s). This is a level one action and the suits will have mandated the limits and will also have written the external communication.
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