{"id":659496,"date":"2026-05-10T04:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:03:09","slug":"the-roads-were-dirty-full-of-mud-ciccone-says-after-massive-giro-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659496\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The roads were dirty, full of mud&#8221; Ciccone says after massive Giro crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Gee-West and the Lidl-Trek team were dealt a massive blow to the team\u2019s GC ambitions on just the second day of the Giro d\u2019Italia. The Canadian national champion was <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\">caught up in a massive crash as the Grand Tour traversed slippery roads<\/a>. While the Lidl-Trek team isn\u2019t hurting as much as UAE Emirates, who lose Jay Vine and Marc Soler from the race in addition to Adam Yates\u2019s time losses, it\u2019s still a far from ideal start to the three-week race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/derek-gee-west-update-after-crash-at-giro-ditalia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Gee-West update after crash at Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe roads were dirty, full of mud,\u201d Gee-West\u2019s teammate Giulio Ciccone, who finished third on the stage, said after racing concluded. \u201cAnd then of course there is stress. Everyone knows that the first stages are like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, this stage stood out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very crazy finale. First there was that heavy crash, then the neutralization, followed by uncertainty about where the stage would resume, and finally that super-explosive climb,\u201d Ciccone recalled. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame about the finish, because it really was a tough day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UAE Emirates-XRG\u2019s Ant\u00f3nio Morgado was more blunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone knew that with this road surface, someone was bound to fall,\u201d the Portugese rider told Eurosport. \u201cUnfortunately, we were unlucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe road was incredibly slippery, which is why there was such a big fight for position,\u201d Morgado added. \u201cWe went through the corner and then we crashd. I\u2019m in some pain myself, but we\u2019re not going to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Racing at the 2026 Giro d\u2019Italia continues on Sunday. You can catch the action on FloBikes.com, starting at 6:40 a.m. EDT. As always, Canadian Cycling Magazine will have a race report and a few other bits of Giro content as the day goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Affiliate links present. Canadian Cycling Magazine may receive commissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Gee-West and the Lidl-Trek team were dealt a massive blow to the team\u2019s GC ambitions on just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[142395,163715,49,48,635,162059,43199,50277,10873,82,42479],"class_list":["post-659496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-giro-ditalia","tag-adam-yates","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-derek-gee-west","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-giulio-ciccone","tag-lidl-trek","tag-sports","tag-uae-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659496","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=659496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}