Along with its stunning route all through Italy, the Giro d’Italia is thought for its drama. Unpredictable climate, chaotic finishes and brutally robust terrain make for a really troublesome 21 days of racing to complete because the attrition wears on.
This 12 months’s Giro d’Italia has seen riders abandon, in fact, by way of unlucky crashes as there all the time is. But the sphere has primarily been closely affected by sickness within the second week, with viruses and fever being reported throughout groups after the primary relaxation day.
It was primarily the dash subject suffering from illness, with stage 9 winner Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) one in every of 4 quick males to desert earlier than stage 10 with reported illness.
But only a day in a while stage 11, his teammate and Visma’s GC chief Cian Uijtdebroeks was additionally compelled to desert attributable to falling sick after the stage 10 summit end. He is the highest-profile GC rider to go away the race thus far however Bora-Hansgrohe have been additionally hampered with the previous shedding their second possibility for the general, Florian Lipowitz to illness.
Crashes took out Kooij’s key leadout man Christophe Laporte and Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) after the Eritrean fell twice in a moist descent on stage 4 and needed to cease.
Visma-Lease a Bike and Israel-Premier Tech are the worst affected groups – on the time of writing each groups have half of their respective groups out and solely 4 males left within the race.
Half of the 22 groups that began the 2024 Giro have misplaced a minimum of one rider, whereas the opposite nonetheless get pleasure from a full complement of riders to compete within the second and third weeks.
Race favorite Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has averted sickness and damage in his Giro debut, regardless of just a few complaints about allergic reactions and a slide-out on stage 2, as has his entire staff.
155 riders stay on the 2024 Giro heading into stage 11, with some method to go for the abandons complete to get near one of the attritional editions of the race in current reminiscence on the 2023 race which solely noticed 124 riders end in Rome.
Read on for the total rundown of withdrawals from the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 8
Stage 9
Stage 10
Stage 11
The full checklist of remaining riders on the 2024 Giro d’Italia, powered by FirstCycling