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Giro d'Italia director Mauro Vegni: “I myself have to get the Giro to Rome, that is the most important thing"
CyclingThursday, 18 May 2023 at 02:30
For Mauro Vegni, the race director of the Giro d'Italia, these are not the nicest days. Italian Grand Tour is being ravaged by the corona virus and then there is also the bad weather which is making the race extremely hard.
Giro d'Italia has been under the spell of the corona virus, especially in the last few days. This morning another six riders dropped out with COVID-19, including four Soudal - Quick-Step riders. “It's a problem we didn't want. It is a case of force majeure,” Vegni believes. “I myself have to get the Giro to Rome, that is the most important thing."
“A communiqué will probably be sent this weekend in which we examine what has happened in the past two weeks. But now I think of Rome. That the bad weather won't help us? Absolute. That worries me more at the moment.”
Vegni also briefly commented on Remco Evenepoel's statement, and the communication of Soudal - Quick-Step team. “The team made that announcement on its own. There was no prior communication with the Giro organization. It was not nice to hear via Twitter and the internet that the Maglia Rosa wearer was leaving the Giro… They made a mistake there, but I can understand that they were a bit panicked and didn't have the lucidity to follow normal protocol at such an event,” Vegni also said in conversation with Het Laatste Nieuws.
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