{"id":666821,"date":"2026-05-12T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:39:08","slug":"giro-ditalia-2026-fines-penalties-and-race-jury-notices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666821\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d’Italia 2026 | fines, penalties and race jury notices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the IDL Pro Cycling fines, penalties and jury notices page \u2014 planes, trains and automobiles was taken! We will be monitoring the Giro d’Italia<\/a> race jury report from the official organisation throughout the entire race. The report details the penalties handed out each day \u2014 in the form of time deductions and\/or points in the Giro’s classifications and\/or on the UCI ranking. Any important information for riders and teams issued in the jury report will be shared here.Giro d’Italia 2026 \u2014 fines and time penaltiesStage 4: Catanzaro – Cosenza (138 kilometer<\/p>\n

Stage 4: Catanzaro Cosenza (138 kilometers) It had been three turbulent days in Bulgaria, after which the caravan moved to Italy for the first stages in their home country. It started there with a tricky ride, but it was certainly not tricky for the jury. There were few incidents, and no crashes. This meant that no fines or penalties were handed out.<\/p>\n

Stage 3: Plovdiv \u2013 Sofia (175 kilometres)In the third stage, there were finally no crashes, and so we concluded the three-day race in Bulgaria with a classic bunch sprint<\/a> through the streets of Sofia. Was this a reason for the jury to take it easy? No, as the jury report revealed.Just like the day before, the organisers spotted a rider briefly removing his helmet during the race. The action by Hartthijs de Vries of the Unibet Rose Rockets<\/a> was noticed and, just like Kaden Groves on Saturday, the Dutchman was also given a warning.<\/p>\n

As this had happened two days in a row, the jury wrote in the report: \u2018Wearing a helmet during the competition is mandatory. If you need to take off your helmet for any reason, you must stop at the side of the road.\u2019<\/p>\n

In addition to warnings, fines were also handed out to riders who urinated whilst the neutralisation was still in progress and therefore in full view of the public. Max Walscheid (Lidl-Trek) and Victor Campenaerts (Visma | Lease a Bike) were fined 200 Swiss francs. Rasmus Pedersen (Decathlon) urinated at the wrong moment whilst on the road and received the same penalty.<\/p>\n

The final and harshest penalty was for Johan Price Pejtersen of Alpecin-Premier Tech, with a delayed finish. On Sunday, during the finale of stage 2, the 26-year-old Dane took off his rain jacket in the peloton and intended to throw it to the side. However, the jacket landed in the peloton. ‘Dangerous and reckless,’ stated the jury, which awarded Price Pejtersen the yellow jersey, a 500 franc fine, and a 25-point deduction in the UCI ranking.<\/p>\n

Stage 2: Burgas \u2013 Veliko Tarnovo (221 kilometres)Stage 2 was, of course, defined above all by the mass crash<\/a> in the finale \u2014 but the race jury also spotted infringements elsewhere in the stage. Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Premier Tech) received a warning after briefly removing his helmet during the race.Christian Scaroni<\/a> may have seen his penalty coming \u2014 but that doesn’t make it any less harsh. The Italian celebrated when he saw his teammate Guillermo Thomas Silva win the stage<\/a> from a reduced sprint, having just delivered his lead-out. Celebrating a teammate’s victory is no longer permitted under UCI rules and earns an automatic yellow card. A second yellow card means disqualification.<\/p>\n

Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Oliver Naesen (Decathlon CMA CGM) and Dries Van Gestel (Soudal Quick-Step) were also handed fines. All three were caught relieving themselves in view of spectators \u2014 each carrying a 200 Swiss franc penalty under the heading of “Inappropriate behaviour.”<\/p>\n

The jury report also addressed the criticism from, among others, Jasper Stuyven regarding the neutralisation following the crash. Stuyven claimed the race had resumed without ambulances still on scene \u2014 but the jury stated: “The stage was restarted once the medical service confirmed that two doctor’s cars and two ambulances had returned to the race.”<\/p>\n

Stage 1: Nessebar\u2013Burgas (147 kilometres)The jury had no penalties to hand out in stage 1, as confirmed in the post-stage report. The organisation confirmed that all riders caught behind the crash in the final kilometre were given the same time as stage winner Paul Magnier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A reminder was also issued that discarding food, bags, bidons and clothing outside designated zones is not permitted. And on the subject of zones: the 3-kilometre rule, whereby a rider who suffers a mechanical or crash inside the final 3 kilometres of a flat stage receives the same time as the rider ahead, does not apply in stage 2.<\/p>\n

That is an important detail, because any rider who suffers bad luck could easily lose time as a result. The organisation has, however, put in place a mechanical assistance zone between 4 and 2 kilometres from the finish \u2014 which makes sense given that stage 2 passes over cobblestones in that section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the IDL Pro Cycling fines, penalties and jury notices page \u2014 planes, trains and automobiles was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,163619,85],"class_list":["post-666821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}