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One Finger Salute from One Pro Cycling

One Pro Cycling team apologises over CiCLE Classic final sprint

British cyclist Dan Fleeman took the biggest victory of his career at the Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic, a race which ended in controversy.

One Pro Cycling rider Hayden McCormick showed his disgust at losing the sprint finish to Fleeman with a one-fingered salute in front of the cameras and hundreds of fans.

“With a few kilometres remaining he said to me ‘are you going to sprint?’,” explained Fleeman. “But I thought he said to me ‘can you sprint?’ and I responded no because I can’t but with 300 metres to go I jumped.

“I don’t know what he thought I was going to do as it’s the biggest one-day race in the country, of course I’m going to sprint.”

One Pro Cycling have released a statement, saying: “The management of ONE Pro Cycling are obviously fully aware of the incident with one of our riders, Hayden McCormick at the finish of today’s Rutland-Melton International CiCLE Classic.

“On behalf of the team we would like to apologise to the race organisers, Dan Fleeman and the Metaltek-Kuota team and all cycling fans and supporters for any offence caused.

“This behaviour will not be tolerated and the matter is being dealt with very seriously.”

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Apr 23 2017 - NEWS: One Finger Salute from One Pro Cycling