{"id":690486,"date":"2026-05-24T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:21:13","slug":"king-sized-fines-for-the-brits-on-giro-queen-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690486\/","title":{"rendered":"King-sized fines for the Brits on Giro Queen stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, no one said pro cycling would be easy. Some days, things happen. Maybe that means holding onto a bottle for a bit too long \u2014 no shame, do what you gotta do.<\/p>\n

But a bunch of our fellow Commonwealthers had to pay up some Swiss francs after an epic day of racing at the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n

The Giro hit the high mountains on Saturday with a brutal 133-km stage to Pila, and all eyes were on Jonas Vingegaard as he hunted down race leader Afonso Eul\u00e1lio. An early breakaway featuring our good pal, Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Que.\u2019s Nickolas Zukowsky<\/a> animated the stage before the decisive climbs shattered the race.<\/p>\n

A tough day at the races<\/p>\n

The Lin Noir and Verrogne ascents reduced the escapees, with Giulio Ciccone scooping maximum KOM points. On the final climb to Pila, Vingegaard\u2019s pace proved too much for Eul\u00e1lio and Osgoode, Ont.\u2019s Derek Gee, both dropped well before the finish as the GC battle exploded in the Alps.<\/p>\n

After the race, there\u2019s the results sheet. And then there\u2019s the \u201cuh-oh, you messed up\u201d list in the communiqu\u00e9<\/a> from bike races.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, it was this. Okay, only two are British. One is a Kiwi. Still, solid representation from the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

Ben Turner and directeur sportif Leonardo Basso (Netcompany INEOS) were fined 200 and 500 Swiss francs respectively for taking a sticky bottle.<\/p>\n

Mark Donovan (Pinarello Q36.5) received a 500 Swiss francs fine, lost four Red Bull KM points and was relegated to last place in his group for deviating from his line and obstructing another rider at the Red Bull KM sprint.<\/p>\n

Directeur sportif Shane Archbold (Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe) was handed a 200 Swiss francs fine and a yellow card for failing to respect commissaires\u2019 instructions. (Yeah, he\u2019s from New Zealand.)<\/p>\n

Well anyway, life moves fast, lads. Tomorrow is another day. Stage 15 is from Voghera to Milan for a a total of 157km. And yeah, there are gonna be some sore legs, but probably no one is gonna need a few sticky bottles. (Not tomorrow at least, and no shame.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey, no one said pro cycling would be easy. Some days, things happen. Maybe that means holding onto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[142395,49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-690486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-giro-ditalia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690486","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=690486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}