Two-year ban for Chinese cyclist

THE Chinese rider kicked out of the Tour of Hainan for attacking Swiss national team staff has been banned from professional cycling for two years, Chinese cycling chiefs said.

Wang Xin, his Keyi Look team and three of their staff were punished by the Chinese Cycling Association.

Race organisers on the island had already said that Wang and Keyi Look would never be allowed back.

Video footage posted online shows a rider, purported to be Wang, beating one staff member of the Swiss team to the ground and kicking him in the head, before attacking a second one, after the tour’s seventh stage on Friday.