{"id":56961,"date":"2022-07-02T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/k-ng-plays-down-helmet-grab-on-guerreiro-at-tour-de-france"},"modified":"2022-07-02T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:24:50","slug":"k-ng-plays-down-helmet-grab-on-guerreiro-at-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/k-ng-plays-down-helmet-grab-on-guerreiro-at-tour-de-france","title":{"rendered":"K&#252;ng plays down helmet grab on Guerreiro at Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan K&#252;ng (Groupama-FDJ) has sought to play down any sense of controversy after he appeared to grab EF Education-EasyPost&#8217;s Ruben Guerreiro by the head on stage 2 of the Tour de France . With 36km to go on a treacherous opening road stage , as the peloton made their way down narrow coastal roads, K&#252;ng was caught on camera raising his arm and grabbing the back of Guerreiro &#8216;s helmet. He appeared to hold it in place for a second, before Guerreiro broke free and waved his arm in remonstration. Read More Tour de France: Fabio Jakobsen wins crash-marred sprint stage 2 in Nyborg Great Belt Bridge chaos brings down Tour de France leader, Ur&#225;n Yves Lampaert concerned about catching COVID-19 during Tour de France K&#252;ng was later sanctioned by the UCI officials. He was not ejected from the race but was fined 500 Swiss Francs and docked 20 points in the UCI World Ranking. At the finish line in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss rider fined and docked UCI points but says &#8216;it&#8217;s all good&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[522,58,71],"class_list":["post-56961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}