Lieuwe Westra wins stage seven of the 2014 Dauphine-Libere
Police caught team Astana rider Lieuwe Westra on radar driving 189 kilometres per hour (118mph) in the northern part of the Netherlands on Wednesday evening.
"It is what it is," Westra told Dutch Leeuwarder Courant website. "I just drove too fast."
Vincenzo Nibali in "rage" after Astana doping revelations
Astana's WorldTour licence in jeopardy after another failed drug test
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