> “What the fuck! How can the organization of a Grand Tour be so amateurish?”, asks Paris-Roubaix winner Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in a message on social media that has since been deleted. “Was the jury asleep when they had to check our bikes? We were there 20 minutes before the start, for the check, and two of our riders weren’t ready in time. We kept telling the jury to go, but it looked like they were just chilling.”

> Ferrand-Prévot also has no good words for the UCI jury members. “We put so much preparation and effort into it, for nothing. We are now losing so much time in the general classification. Hey UCI, you want a fair sport, but this is not the way to do it,” says the French leader of Visma | Lease a Bike.

> Uno-X rider Anouska Koster also spoke out about the situation. “We arrived late at the start because of one of the teams ahead of us. We got to the bike checkpoint a good 15 minutes early, but because another team arrived later, we had to wait and our checkpoint wasn’t ready in time,” she told ProCyclingUK. “We had no idea we were supposed to start because no one was telling us the time. So we weren’t in the grid yet, so we weren’t clipped in and there was no countdown. We ended up leaving ten seconds late.”

Simmer down wagie, UCI works at their own pace