Punch-ups at the Vuelta a Espana: The one you didn't see

"Rodriguez turned towards me and punched me full in the face" says Sky's Philip Deignan

Phillip Deignan on stage fifteen of the 2014 Giro d'Italia

(Image credit: Watson)

If one set of fisticuffs wasn't enough for a bike race, Team Sky's Philip Deignan has said that Katusha's Joaquim Rodriguez "turned towards me and punched me full in the face" during stage 15 of the Vuelta a Espana.

The incident happened just one day before Gianluca Brambilla (Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) and Ivan Rovny (Saxo-Tinkoff) were both excluded from the grand tour for throwing punches at each other while in the breakaway on stage 16.

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Richard Windsor