{"id":683187,"date":"2026-05-20T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:06:09","slug":"from-peter-sagan-to-victor-campenaerts-to-the-2026-giro-ditalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683187\/","title":{"rendered":"From Peter Sagan to Victor Campenaerts to… the 2026 Giro d’Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHowever the organizers didn’t cast the warning against Pinarello’s de la Cruz specifically, but for all riders. And as it was then revealed, Visma’s Victor Campenaerts<\/a> is widely regarded as the ‘face’ behind this habit.\u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen often. I\u2019ve never done it myself, and I actually only know one rider who definitely does: Victor Campenaerts,” Arjen Livyns<\/a> of XDS Astana Team told Het Nieuwsblad<\/a>. “I think he invented the concept, because he was already doing it when we rode together at Lotto.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose bidons obviously have to go somewhere afterwards. And people are always eager to pick them up. I wouldn\u2019t be pleased either if one of my children picked up a bidon like that and then wanted to taste it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Victor<\/p>\n

Victor Campenaerts ahead of stage 6 at the 2026 Giro d’Italia<\/p>\n

Campenaerts refuses the idea\u00a0<\/p>\n

Campenaerts was asked by Sporza regarding the topic, and his response raised eyebrows: \u201cPee bidons in the race? I have no idea what you\u2019re talking about”.<\/p>\n

The Belgian’s former teammate Arjen Livyns was not the only rider to point towards the veteran. Fellow compatriot Oliver Naesen has also added his own insight: \u201cI won\u2019t name names, but V.C (Victor Campenaerts, ed.) is the expert in that field”.<\/p>\n

Victor Campenaerts is not the ‘inventor’, but Peter Sagan may be<\/p>\n

Hence the story develops, with different accounts coming from different riders. However Naesen, a classics specialist and former contender for victory in the cobbled monuments, would extend the topic further by adding another name into the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough I think Peter Sagan<\/a> used to do it as well,” he revealed. “Me? I\u2019ve genuinely never tried. My bib shorts are too small to fit a bidon in there.\u201d However, Naesen understands that this can be a serious problem for riders, specially during Grand Tours and stages taking place in very urban areas, where riders don’t often have empty spaces in which the riders can have privacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the stage to Naples, we raced almost exclusively through urban areas for the final hour and a half, he explained. “You have to take that into account and use the opportunities that come before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a humorous remark, Naesen adds that this is not something he ultimately suffers with. \u201cI really only need 100 metres without spectators. Then I can get my \u2018merchandise\u2019 out and open the tap immediately. Yes, you can definitely call that a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" However the organizers didn’t cast the warning against Pinarello’s de la Cruz specifically, but for all riders.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[329378,64,63,784,163619,168703,85,171060],"class_list":["post-683187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-arjen-livyns","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-peter-sagan","tag-sports","tag-victor-campenaerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683187","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=683187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}