{"id":707011,"date":"2026-05-31T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:40:11","slug":"sd-worx-protime-on-how-and-where-wiebes-is-after-giro-dq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707011\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Worx-Protime on how and where Wiebes is after Giro DQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a soap opera: Lorena Wiebes<\/a> won the first stage of the Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> Women on Saturday, but was taken out of the race afterwards because her bike was said to be too light<\/a>. Her team SD Worx-Protime<\/a> will challenge that decision, but they have also chosen to cut their losses in part and send Wiebes straight home.The team issued a statement immediately after the disqualification<\/a>. \u201cSD Worx \u2013 Protime is astonished by the decision of the UCI jury panel that Lorena Wiebes<\/a>\u2019 bike did not meet the minimum weight limit after the first stage of the Giro d\u2019Italia Women, in accordance with UCI article 2.12.007\u20132.2.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the jury, the bike weighed 6.78 kilograms and therefore did not meet the UCI minimum weight requirement of 6.8 kilograms. The team has serious questions about the procedures for weighing the bikes during the Giro d\u2019Italia Women,\u201d the team said, describing the sanction as \u201cextraordinarily severe\u201d.<\/p>\n

Read on below the video!<\/p>\n

Wiebes already home after DQThe next day, team manager Danny Stam returned to the matter in an interview with NOS<\/a>, where he also explained how Wiebes herself \u2014 whom we had not yet heard from \u2014 was doing. \u201cLorena is already home. She is, of course, deeply disappointed. We came here with a goal to win three or four stages. Which, I think, was realistic too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are then thrown out of the Giro in that way, it is very painful. We chose to bring her back to the Netherlands as quickly as possible,\u201d Stam said. Team manager Andr\u00e9 Boskamp said much the same. \u201cIt is bizarre, this can actually not be true. They found that the bike was a little too light, but is that second scale correct? Lorena had really been living towards this. It is a huge blow, for the whole team as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n

Janssen plans legal steps<\/p>\n

Team boss Erwin Janssen has already announced legal action. \u201cIt will probably be difficult, but we cannot just let this pass. It is ridiculous that Lorena has been thrown out. This causes us so much damage,\u201d he told NOS. \u201cWe were going for three or four wins. It is sad. These are the bikes we always ride on. And we have never had anything like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do everything we can, including legally. But they are unyielding. It will be their no against our yes. They will receive a letter. We will hold them liable for the damage suffered,\u201d Janssen said.<\/p>\n

Balsamo wins stage twoWithout Wiebes, stage two of the Giro d\u2019Italia went to Elisa Balsamo<\/a>, who had finished second behind Wiebes on stage one and therefore wore the pink jersey too. \u201cWinning in the Maglia Rosa is a dream come true. I have to thank my teammates, because they were fantastic,\u201d she said afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially Lucinda Brand, who is always very reliable in the finale and brought me into the perfect position at exactly the right moment, was very important. I think I rode a very good sprint and it was nice to be able to take advantage of this chance,\u201d Balsamo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a soap opera: Lorena Wiebes won the first stage of the Giro d\u2019Italia Women on Saturday, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,165753,340948,49602,28779,184183,85],"class_list":["post-707011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-elisa-balsamo","tag-giro-ditalia-women","tag-lidl-trek","tag-lorena-wiebes","tag-sd-worx-protime","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707011","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=707011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}