Giro d'Italia Women 2026 **SPOILERS**

[De Schot]

As I understand it the bikes are weighed before and after the race, so there shouldn't really be a noticeable disparity. In any case, were it my team, I'd be asking to see the calibration certificates for the scales and pursue every avenue I could.

 

[mididoctors]

Yes, half an energy gel. Rules are rules. In reality it would have saved her a thousandth of a second or something daft but the line is drawn in the sand.

I think.its a fair DQ . Must be worrying taking a spare wheel of unknown weight

 

[mididoctors]

As I understand it the bikes are weighed before and after the race, so there shouldn't really be a noticeable disparity. In any case, were it my team, I'd be asking to see the calibration certificates for the scales and pursue every avenue I could.

They weighed it 3 times with different scales they say

 

[Dogtrousers]

Have to say I'm not inspired by the course

1: Flat, 2: Flat with cat 4 bump in the middle, 3:Flat-ish with cat 3 bump 20km from end, 4: ITT, 5: Mountains, downhill finish 6: Flat, 7: Cat 3 climb 20k from end preceded by an uphill sprint point. 8: Mountans, cat 3 finish. 9: Mountains downhill finish.

The absence of Wiebes has, I suppose added a bit of jeopardy to the numerous sprint finishes.

I'm no expert on these things but my feel is that disqualification is extreme. Relegation would have been more suitable in my book. But I know nothing about these things, unlike the commissaires who are always a model of consistency.

It's easy to say "rules are rules" but in cycling, they often aren't because the commissaires have so much latitude to ignore rules if they feel like it and if not, to pull sanctions out of their arses.

When these things happen I'm always reminded of Wout van Aert on his way to winning E3 in 2023 having his chain lubricated by a mechanic hanging out of a car, in exact, word-for-word, contravention of a rule (2.3.030) introduced with much fanfare in 2015. It wasn't even an obscure old rule, I called it out as it happened and I'm an ignoramus. No action was taken. That was just a week after Kristen Faulkner was DSQ from Strade Bianchi for wearing a glucose monitor that wasn't connected to anything.

 

[mididoctors]

As I understand it the bikes are weighed before and after the race, so there shouldn't really be a noticeable disparity. In any case, were it my team, I'd be asking to see the calibration certificates for the scales and pursue every avenue I could.

I don't understand how it wasn't picked up.st the start

 

[mididoctors]

Have to say I'm not inspired by the course

1: Flat, 2: Flat with cat 4 bump in the middle, 3:Flat-ish with cat 3 bump 20km from end, 4: ITT, 5: Mountains, downhill finish 6: Flat, 7: Cat 3 climb 20k from end preceded by an uphill sprint point. 8: Mountans, cat 3 finish. 9: Mountains downhill finish.

The absence of Wiebes has, I suppose added a bit of jeopardy to the numerous sprint finishes.

I'm no expert on these things but my feel is that disqualification is extreme. Relegation would have been more suitable in my book. But I know nothing about these things, unlike the commissaires who are always a model of consistency.

It's easy to say "rules are rules" but in cycling, they often aren't because the commissaires have so much latitude to ignore rules if they feel like it and if not, to pull sanctions out of their arses.

When these things happen I'm always reminded of Wout van Aert on his way to winning E3 in 2023 having his chain lubricated by a mechanic hanging out of a car, in exact, word-for-word, contravention of a rule (2.3.030) introduced with much fanfare in 2015. It wasn't even an obscure old rule. That was just a week after Kristen Faulkner was DSQ from Strade Bianchi for wearing a glucose monitor that wasn't connected to anything.

The weight limit may need modifying but having a limit seems sensible safety wise even if it favours heavy riders

The glucose monitor needs to be quashed imo as it' a slippery slope . Riders are too controlling already. It's not le mans

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I don't understand how it wasn't picked up.st the start

I wondered, given the tiny underweight reading, did she have a puncture with tubeless tyres? Or did she have a tyre burp, losing some sealant? Or was it so hot that the sealant dried up more than usual during the stage?

Or were the scales simply carp? Our Salter bathroom scales give ~1.5Kg lower reading if you step off then on again after the initial static reading.

 

[De Schot]

I don't understand how it wasn't picked up.st the start

Yes, this is what I thought also. If the bike hasn't been modified during the race with a spare wheel or such, then I don't see how it can become significantly heavier during a race. It should have been picked up at the start with the option to rectify prior to the race. You'd think they would have a margin of error calculation as well to account for different scales etc. All the above being said, SD worx claimed that the bike being that much lighter would only have offered a tiny, if any, advantage. If that is the case I think I'd err on the side of making it heavier and taking the tiny disadvantage to avoid this as a possibility.

 

[mididoctors]

Thr ladies seem to be on a go slow

 

[misforturob]

Protesting against shite parcours

 

[mididoctors]

Protesting against shite parcours

I think they know what there doing

 

[mididoctors]

ELB doing big turns

 

[mididoctors]

Splits occuring

 

[mididoctors]

Balsamo,.. well contested sprint without Weibes llol

 

[mididoctors]

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