{"id":669673,"date":"2026-05-14T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:35:09","slug":"who-has-abandoned-the-giro-ditalia-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669673\/","title":{"rendered":"Who has abandoned the Giro d’Italia 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening stages of the 2026 Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> have seen some big high-consequence crashes, with a number of the 184 starters<\/a> failing to make it beyond Bulgaria<\/a> and a high rate of attrition continuing in Italy.<\/p>\n

The latest abandons include Giro debutant Timo de Jong from Picnic PostNL<\/a>, who pulled out of the race during Stage 5 on Wednesday, suffering from the effects of a crash that happened on Sunday (the final stage in Bulgaria<\/a>), during which he hit the deck while taking a left corner with 8km left to go and aggravated a wrist injury he’d sustained at the GP Monser\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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British rider Josh Giddings<\/a>, who got a late call-up to the Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9<\/a> squad after illness ripped through the Belgian team, was also forced to bail part way through Stage 5, suffering from lower back pain caused by that big crash during stage 2<\/a>. Italian Samuele Battistella from EF Education-EasyPost<\/a> failed to finish stage 5 too.<\/p>\n

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The Lotto<\/a> Intermarch\u00e9 team is now severely depleted, having also lost both Arnaud De Lie<\/a> (who was unable to finish stage 4) and Milan Menten (didn’t start stage 5) \u2013 both floored by the manure malady<\/a> believed to have been caused by bacteria from cow pats encountered during the Famenne Ardenne Classic in Belgium, just before the Giro.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, Kaden Groves of Alpecin-Premier Tech<\/a> retired from the race, with the two-time stage winner succumbing to injuries suffered on the stage one mass crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ahead of stage four, Wilco Kelderman of Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a> left the Giro, depriving Jonas Vingegaard <\/a>of a key domestique in his bid to win the maglia rosa<\/a>. Visma posted: “Unfortunately, Wilco Kelderman will not start stage 4 of the Giro d\u2019Italia following his crash a couple of days ago, as he is still experiencing lingering effects from the crash.”<\/p>\n

Other early departees include one realistic GC contender, British rider Adam Yates<\/a>, who might have given overwhelming Corsa Rosa favourite Vingegaard<\/a> a run for his money.<\/p>\n

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Matteo Moschetti from Pinarello Q36.5 <\/a>was the first rider to exit the race, after sustaining a concussion in a big crash in Burgas, on the final kilometre of stage 1 of the Giro<\/a>. It was a huge pile-up, from which Paul Magnier<\/a> of Soudal-Quick Step<\/a> emerged victorious, but much worse was to come the next day.<\/p>\n

UAE Emirates-XRG were the team worst hit by the calamitous crash that marred the second stage of the 2026 Giro<\/a>, ultimately losing three riders as a result of the horrendous pile-up that happened 21km from the finish.<\/p>\n

Having bounced back from a broken wrist caused by a collision with a kangaroo<\/a> during the Tour Down Under<\/a> in January (a race he still managed to won), Jay Vine suffered a broken elbow and concussion in the crash and the Australian was immediately withdrawn from the race. His teammate, Spanish rider Marc Soler, was also admitted to hospital with fractured pelvis.<\/p>\n

In addition, Uno-X Mobility<\/a> rider \u00c5dne Holter and Santiago Buitrago from Bahrain Victorious were both forced to withdraw from the race as a result of the same crash, which happened on a slippery stretch of road shortly before the final climb to the Lyaskovets Monastery, and resulted in the race being temporarily neutralised while casualties were treated.<\/p>\n

Somewhat controversially, UAE\u2019s British GC hopeful Adam Yates was allowed to continue, despite looking as though he\u2019d collided with a combine harvester, only to be withdrawn from the Giro<\/a> on Sunday, before the start of stage 3<\/a>, with what has been described as \u2018delayed concussive symptoms\u2019.<\/p>\n

Andrea Vendrame<\/a>, a previous stage winner at the Giro, was also forced to retire from the race after stage two, with X-rays revealing the Jayco AlUla<\/a> rider had suffed three lower back fractures in the crash.<\/p>\n

Riders who have abandoned the 2026 GiroMatteo Moschetti (Pinarello Q36.5) \u2013 DNF stage 1 after crashingJay Vine (UAE Emirates-XRG) \u2013 DNF stage 2 after crashingMarc Soler (UAE Emirates-XRG) \u2013 DNF stage 2 after crashing\u00c5dne Holter (Uno-X Mobility) \u2013 DNF stage 2 after crashingSantiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) \u2013 DNF stage 2 after crashingAdam Yates (UAE Emirates-XRG) \u2013 DNS stage 3 after crashing on stage 2Andrea Vendrame (Jayco AlUla) \u2013 DNS stage 3 after crashing on stage 2Wilco Kelderman (Visma-Lease a Bike) \u2013 DNS stage 4 after crashing on stage 2Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Premier Tech) \u2013 DNF stage 4 after crashing on stage 1Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Intermarch\u00e9) \u2013 DNF stage 4 after illnessMilan Menten (Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9) \u2013 DNS Stage 5 after illnessTimo de Jong (Picnic PostNL) \u2013\u00a0DNF Stage 5 after crashJosh Giddings (Lotto Intermarch\u00e9) \u2013 DNF Stage 5 after crashing on stage 2Samuele Battistella (EF Education-EasyPost) \u2013 DNF Stage 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening stages of the 2026 Giro d\u2019Italia have seen some big high-consequence crashes, with a number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-669673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669673","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=669673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}