Demi Vollering and two of her teammates were fined by the UCI for peeing in public on Friday at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift<\/p>\n
And they were only three of many who fell victim to a regulation crackdown on Friday\u2019s hotly hyped 7th stage to Mont Ventoux.<\/p>\n
UCI commissaires issued a total of 2,200 CHF ($2,700 USD) in fines across 15 separate offenses on the \u201cqueen stage\u201d of the race. That\u2019s a long naughty list that made Friday the most heavily regulated stage of the race so far.<\/p>\n
Only the stage 1 sanction crackdown rivals the volume of misdemeanors spotted by eagle-eyed officials on Friday.<\/p>\n
Vollering and her FDJ United-Suez domestiques C\u00e9lia Gery and Juliette Berthet were hit with 100 CHF fines for \u201cunseemly or inappropriate behavior \u2013 urinating in public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Five riders and five corresponding team DSs were slapped with similar loose-change sanctions for \u201csticky bottles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gravel ace Rosa Kl\u00f6ser and an FDJ Suez sport director were also caught out by UCI commissaires on Friday\u2019s stage across Provence.<\/p>\n
Full details can be found below.<\/em><\/p>\n Mid-race nature breaks became problematic for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s peloton this season.<\/p>\n There was a full pee-gate controversy at the men\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia that later trickled across to the Giro Women.<\/p>\n Racers told Velo\u2019<\/em>s Andy McGrath at the men\u2019s Tour de France that it was becoming increasingly difficult to find the opportunity to pull over for a \u201cnature break.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s rarely the right moment as crowd sizes and racing intensity increase by the year at the biggest bike race in the world.<\/p>\n Clothing logistics make mid-race pee breaks exponentially more complicated in the women\u2019s peloton.<\/p>\n Velo<\/em> understands there have been complaints on a riders\u2019 WhatsApp group this week of athletes letting loose in their bibs as a quick but soggy workaround.<\/p>\n The huge crowds that came out to watch the race take on Mont Ventoux on Friday no doubt heightened problems for riders with brimming bladders.<\/p>\n Stage 7 was the first time that jurors caught riders taking mid-race pee breaks at this Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n Also Friday, Charlotte Kool missed the time cut at the summit of Mont Ventoux and was booted from the race.<\/p>\n The Dutch sprinter crossed the line 55:55 back on stage-winner Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney, little more than three minutes behind the 52:35 time limit.<\/p>\n Kool\u2019s late finish wrapped up a stage that saw three-non-starters. Anna van der Breggen, Kiara Lylyk, and Katrine Aalerud abandoned before the stage rolled out.<\/p>\n Article 2.12.007-4.9: Irregular assistance of a rider within the same team<\/strong> Article 2.12.007-4.11<\/strong>: Irregular feeding (\u201csticky bottle\u201d for a short distance, etc.)<\/strong> Article 2.12.007-8.1<\/strong>: Failing to respect the instructions of the commissaires.<\/strong> Article 2.12.007-8.6<\/strong>: Inappropriate behavior (urinating in public during the race)<\/strong> [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france-femmes\/vollering-peeing-public-uci-overdrive-tour-de-france-femmes\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Z8A_9547.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 8, 2026 03:59AM Demi Vollering and two of her teammates were fined by the UCI for peeing in public on Friday at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift And they were only three of many who fell victim to a regulation crackdown on Friday\u2019s hotly hyped 7th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2083979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Pee problems in the pro peloton<\/h2>\n
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Charlotte Kool loses battle with Ventoux time cut<\/h2>\n
UCI sanctions: Tour de France Femmes stage 7<\/h2>\n
\n24- KL\u00d6SER Maria Rosa \u2013 CANYON\/\/SRAM<\/p>\n
\n37- SQUIBAN Maeva \u2013 UAE TEAM L\u2019IMAD
\n114- KOREVAAR Jeanne \u2013 LIV-ALULA-JAYCO
\n125- GRIFFIN Mia \u2013 TEAM PICNIC POSTNL
\n132- FRANZ Heidi \u2013 ST MICHEL \u2013 PREFERENCE HOME \u2013 AUBER93
\n163- EISEN Malou \u2013 VOLKERWESSELS CYCLING TEAM
\nDS- COSNIER L\u00e9onard \u2013 ST MICHEL \u2013 PREFERENCE HOME \u2013 AUBER93
\nDS- KEMNA Rudi \u2013 TEAM PICNIC POSTNL
\nDS- PRIDHAM Ch\u00e9rie \u2013 UAE TEAM L\u2019IMAD
\nDS- STROETINGA Wim \u2013 LIV-ALULA-JAYCO
\nDS- VAN WANROIJ Marieke \u2013 VOLKERWESSELS CYCLING TEAM<\/p>\n
\nDS- MAIRE Nicolas \u2013 FDJ UNITED \u2013 SUEZ \u2013 10051744733<\/p>\n
\n11- VOLLERING Demi \u2013 FDJ UNITED \u2013 SUEZ
\n12- BERTHET Juliette \u2013 FDJ UNITED \u2013 SUEZ
\n13- GERY C\u00e9lia \u2013 FDJ UNITED \u2013 SUEZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n