After being involved in one of the 2025 Tour de France‘s most controversial moments, Lenny Martinez has gone into more detail about his lack of intention to “cheat” when he gained a significant advantage using a sticky bottle, and offered a reaction to the criticism he received.
Martinez was filmed by TV cameras as he struggled up the Col du Glandon on stage 18 of this year’s Tour, and took three sticky bottles in quick succession from DS Roman Kreuziger to make it up to the group he’d previously been in.
As the criticism flowed in on social media, the race jury’s decisions from the stage followed, with Martinez – who was wearing the King of the Mountains jersey at the time of the incident – receiving a relatively light fine of eight KOM points, 200 CHF and 15 UCI points, alongside a 10-second penalty.
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