The present white jersey holder Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma-Lease a Bike) has been pressured to desert the Giro d’Italia with sickness forward of stage 11, following an analogous abandon from teammate Olav Kooij 24 hours earlier.
The workforce made the announcement on Wednesday morning. “The Giro must proceed with out the most important smile of the peloton,” the assertion learn. “We remorse to announce that Cian Uijtdebroeks is pressured to desert the race. Cian didn’t really feel effectively the previous days and after yesterday’s stage, he fell sick.”
Kooij left the race on Tuesday, forward of stage 10 with what the workforce described as a fever. Israel-Premier Tech’s Ethan Vernon was additionally pressured to desert with what the workforce described as an “acute respiratory viral an infection with fever”.
The departure of Uijtdebroeks marks a significant blow for Visma-Lease a Bike, because the Belgian rider was the workforce chief, the one GC contender and the chief in the perfect younger rider’s white jersey competitors. Retaining the white jersey had probably change into the workforce’s general goal within the 2024 race.
More dramatically, Kooij and Uijtdebroeks’ departures add to teammates Christophe Laporte and Robert Gesink leaving earlier within the race, that means Visma-Lease a Bike now has solely 4 riders competing on the Giro.
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