Team RadioShack’s fashion faux pax in the finale to the 2010 Tour de France has not gone unnoticed by the UCI, which on Monday announced that it will open disciplinary proceedings against the team “for breaching the regulations governing riders’ clothing.”

The team showed up for the start of stage 20 wearing black kit bearing the number 28, for the estimated 28 million people worldwide living with cancer, as part of Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong campaign against the disease.

But the UCI took umbrage and required the team’s riders to change back into their approved kit, delaying the start of the stage — and in the process attracting a great deal of attention to Team RadioShack and Livestrong.

The kit got even more attention when RadioShack’s riders and staff wore it on the podium, as they collected the prize for winning the team competition.

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