Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) opted to put on pink shorts to go along with his pink Giro d’Italia chief’s jersey throughout stage 6 after the large polemica and threat of disqualification for carrying purple shorts within the first week of racing.
On Tuesday the UCI Commissaires warned Pogacar and his UAE Team Emirates squad towards carrying the purple shorts as a part of a skinsuit offered by chief’s jersey sponsor Castelli, with the Slovenian risking a advantageous and even disqualification if he had didn’t respect the UCI guidelines.
“I do not know a lot I can say. The organisers gave us the skinsuit, so I put them on however then we received a name from the UCI saying: ‘it isn’t allowed’,” Pogačar revealed to Eurosport on Tuesday.
The UCI denied that Pogacar risked eventual disqualification, even suggesting the entire subject as a ‘non-event’. However the UCI has nonetheless to make clear if Pogacar can race in a two-tone skinsuit, even when factors classification chief Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) is racing in a two-tone cyclamen skinsuit throughout stage 6.
The UCI didn’t reply to Cyclingnews when requested for readability and an evidence.
Cyclingnews understands the issues arose after RCS Sport and Castelli opted to offer two-tone skinsuits to the 4 classification leaders on the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
RCS Sport opted to mix the purple or ‘granata’ shorts with the pink jersey in homage to the Torino soccer group, who play in a maroon-coloured jersey. Saturday marked the seventy fifth anniversary of the Superga air catastrophe, when a airplane carrying the legendary Torino group of the time crashed close to town, killing all 31 folks onboard.
UCI guidelines apparently enable the two-tone design however the UCI weren’t consulted in regards to the thought. UCI race officers then determined that the two-tone pink and purple mixture was not allowed, and so Pogacar opted to not problem the choice or threat a penalty or disqualification.
On Tuesday Pogacar raced in separate black shorts and a pink jersey. On Wednesday he went for pink on pink, combining pink shorts with a pink jersey. He jokingly in contrast himself to the Pink Panther on Instagram.
The issues have sparked amusement on social media however will turn out to be severe on Friday for the important thing time trial stage to Perugia.
If Pogacar is the Giro d’Italia race chief, he’s obliged to race within the skinsuit offered by race organisers RCS – and its clothes sponsor Castelli – somewhat than his group subject made-to-measure skinsuit made by Pissei.
Pogacar, UAE Team Emirates, RCS Sport and Castelli are ready for the UCI to offer a closing, decisive interpretation of their very own guidelines for the time trial.
It seems that the UCI could again down and permit a two-tone pink skinsuit in spite of everything.
