{"id":659078,"date":"2026-05-09T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:56:09","slug":"medical-updates-from-the-30-riders-affected-by-giro-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659078\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical updates from the 30 riders affected by Giro crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around thirty riders went down in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/-terrible-crash-in-stage-2-of-the-giro-ditalia-vine-and-soler-out-yates-loses-13-minutes\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stage 2 crash<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/giro-ditalia\" title=\"Giro d&#039;Italia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giro d&#8217;Italia<\/a>. Many picked themselves up and made it to the finish \u2014 in varying degrees of pain. The medical updates coming in from the teams tell the full story.Bahrain Victorious \u2014 Santiago Buitrago<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/bahrain-victorious\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bahrain Victorious<\/a> lost their GC leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/santiago-buitrago\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago Buitrago<\/a> on day two of the Giro. The Colombian climber was at the bottom of the pile in the bend where the crash erupted and could not even finish the stage.Via their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BHRVictorious\/status\/2053197076926726642\" rel=\"nofollow\">official channels<\/a>, the team confirmed that scans and assessments found no fractures. However, Buitrago sustained several superficial abrasions, bruising to the neck muscles causing restricted movement, and a concussion.Teammate Edoardo Zambanini also went down hard but did make it to the finish for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/bahrain-victorious\" title=\"Bahrain Victorious\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bahrain Victorious<\/a>. The Italian crossed the line with torn shorts and a wound on his hip, with blood also visible on his left knee.Jayco AlUla \u2014 Andrea VendrameThe first confirmed fractures of the crash belong to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/andrea-vendrame\" title=\"Andrea Vendrame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Vendrame<\/a>. The 31-year-old Italian finished the stage, having sat at the roadside for a long time without his helmet, but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GreenEDGEteam\/status\/2053187140348002463\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jayco AlUla have confirmed<\/a> that Vendrame has fractured three transverse processes in his lower back.<\/p>\n<p>He will not start stage 3. Vendrame had been in top form and was without doubt a contender for stages with difficult finales. Jayco AlUla saw their GC leader Ben O&#8217;Connor come through the stage unscathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around thirty riders went down in the stage 2 crash at the Giro d&#8217;Italia. Many picked themselves up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[243826,19035,49,48,635,43199,136068,82,130310],"class_list":["post-659078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-andrea-vendrame","tag-bahrain-victorious","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-santiago-buitrago","tag-sports","tag-team-jayco-alula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659078","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=659078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}