{"id":658533,"date":"2026-05-09T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658533\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:52:09","slug":"derek-gee-west-crashes-in-giro-race-continues-after-massive-pile-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658533\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Gee-West crashes in Giro, race continues after massive pile-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: Gee-West caught back on but then went slightly off the back on the Monastery Pass:<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full race report below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/gee-wests-giro-gc-hopes-suffer-blow-after-getting-caught-up-in-nasty-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gee-West\u2019s Giro GC hopes suffer blow after getting caught up in nasty crash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some rain has caused treacherous conditions at the second stage of the Giro d\u2019Italia. The rain picked up on the way to the Red Bull Kilometre and the Lyaskovets Monastery Pass. A massive crash created havoc with 23 km remaining. Osgoode, Ont.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/derek-gee-to-lidl-trek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Gee-West<\/a> was caught up in it but has managed to get back on his bike and has caught back on after chase.<\/p>\n<p>The race was not officially neutralized, although Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma teammates had already gone to the front to slow things down. Several riders have been sent to hospital, including Jay Vine. It also appears that the entire UAE team, save for Dane Mikkel Bjerg has gone down.<\/p>\n<p>Other riders are being checked for concussions. Race radio says that the pace of the pack is now at a \u201cregulated\u201d pace.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the riders who were involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.procyclingstats.com\/race\/giro-d-italia\/2026\/stage-2\/live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Corbin Strong (NSN Cycling Team)<br \/>\u2022 Edoardo Zambanini (Bahrain \u2013 Victorious)<br \/>\u2022 Derek Gee-West (Lidl \u2013 Trek)<br \/>\u2022 Dries Van Gestel (Soudal Quick-Step)<br \/>\u2022 Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain \u2013 Victorious)<br \/>\u2022 Tim Naberman (Team Picnic PostNL)<br \/>\u2022 Mattia Bais (Team Polti VisitMalta)<br \/>\u2022 Ant\u00f3nio Morgado (UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG)<br \/>\u2022 Jardi Christiaan van der Lee (EF Education \u2013 EasyPost)<br \/>\u2022 Wilco Kelderman (Team Visma | Lease a Bike)<br \/>\u2022 R\u00e9mi Cavagna (Groupama \u2013 FDJ United)<br \/>\u2022 Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG)<br \/>\u2022 Filippo Turconi (Bardiani CSF 7 Saber)<br \/>\u2022 Dion Smith (NSN Cycling Team)<br \/>\u2022 James Shaw (EF Education \u2013 EasyPost)<br \/>\u2022 Chris Hamilton (Team Picnic PostNL)<br \/>\u2022 Fabian Lienhard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)<br \/>\u2022 \u00c5dne Holter (Uno-X Mobility)<br \/>\u2022 Sean Flynn (Team Picnic PostNL)<br \/>\u2022 Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG)<br \/>\u2022 Andrea Vendrame (Team Jayco AlUla)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Gee-West caught back on but then went slightly off the back on the Monastery Pass: You can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,162059,43199,82],"class_list":["post-658533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-derek-gee-west","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}