The Belgian Cian Uijtdebroeks, leader of Team Visma-Lease A Bike, abandoned the Giro d’Italia this Wednesday, before starting stage 11, due to illness.
“The Giro will have to go on without the biggest smile from the peloton. We regret to inform that Cian Uijtdebroeks has been forced to abandon the race. Cian has not been feeling well for the past few days and after yesterday’s stage he got sick. We wish him a speedy recovery,” his team reported.
The 21-year-old Belgian was 5th overall and wearing the ‘Maglia bianca’ that marks the best young man in the competition, a huge blow to a team that also lost Dutchman Olav Kooij, the stage winner, on Tuesday . last Sunday, for the same reasons.
Team Visma, known as the ‘yellow jackets’, He was left with 4 runners in the running: the Hungarian Attila Valter, the Slovenian Jan Tratnik, the Italian Edoardo Affini and the Dutch Tim van Dijke.
Source: La Verdad
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