Racing

Vincenzo Nibali joins long list of Grand Tour DQs

Getting towed, cadging lifts, fighting and other non-doping disqualifications

Chris Froome (Giro d’Italia, 2010)

Vincenzo Nibali's Vuelta a Espana is over after the Astana man was disqualified (pic: Sirotti)
Chris Froome was disqualified from the Giro d'Italia in 2010 after grabbing onto a police motorbike on the Mortirolo (pic: Sirotti)
Eduardo Sepulveda's Tour de France ended early after he took a lift in the Ag2r-La Mondiale car (pic: Sirotti)
Maurice Garin, pictured, was the first ever Tour de France winner having won Paris-Roubaix twice in 1897 and 1898, but was disqualified from the 1904 Tour

Chris Froome (Giro d’Italia, 2010)

Chris Froome’s maiden Giro d’Italia for Team Sky ended with a disqualification after the Kenyan-born Brit hitched a ride with a police motorbike.

Froome – who was suffering with a knee injury – found himself off the back on the Mortirolo climb on stage 19 and grabbed the bike to get a pull to the top.

He said post-stage his intention was only ever to reach the summit, where a soigneur awaited, and then climb off but after being spotted by a commissaire he was sent packing instead.

A 200 swiss francs fine accompanied the DSQ but Froome of course bounced back strongly after ridding himself of the injuries and illness that held him back during his early career.

This year’s Tour de France win was his second victory, and the fifth Grand Tour podium place of his career.