Video: Rider apologises as TV cameras show her throwing crashed rival's bike

Going, going and gone: The panic was in full flow and while her crashed rival was crawling off the road to safety Elisa Longo Borghini's temper got the better of her.

Elisa Longo Borghini has been forced to apologise after the red mist descended today and she threw one of her rival's bikes off the road after a crash

The owner of the bike, Lizzy Banks of the Bigla team, was
crawling off the road to safety when her bike was being flung away.

Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) and Banks had just crashed
in the Belgian one-day race Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne with 35km to go.

Banks appeared to come off the worst and it took her a few moments to gather herself due to the impact with the road.

However, other riders and team vehicles were coming behind
and as she was trying to get off the road, Longo Borghini  was anxious to get going again.

The two riders’ bikes had become tangled and Longo Borghini ‘s initial efforts to free her bike didn’t go too well.

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When she finally lifted Banks’s bike off her own, she picked it up and threw it off the road before getting on her way again.

However, she later took to social media to apologise saying
a stressful situation had gotten the better of her.

"Sorry for the bike throw today," she said on
Twitter. "It was done in the heat of the moment.

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“I was very frustrated because the bikes would not untangle.
It was unacceptable and I am truly sorry.

“My apologies… I would never intentionally cause damage to
someone else or their property."

Banks had veered off the road and came off her bike, which then
flew into Longo Borghini, causing her to crash.

While both of them got going again, Banks did not finish
despite getting a spare bike.

Longo Borghini finished the race in 82nd place, some 23 seconds down on winner Kirsten Wild (WNT-Rotor) after 134.4km.

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