"Giulio Ciccone is on his way to hospital for scans," announces a post by the official social media pages of the Lidl-Trek team. "As soon as we have reliable news we will share it here."
This marks a sharp return to earth for Lidl-Trek, who had enjoyed almost nothing but success over the course of the first 13 stages at the 2025 Giro d'Italia, winning five of them (Mads Pedersen - stages 1, 3, 5 + 13,
Daan Hoole - stage 10), but now, with Ciccone out of the GC fight and maybe out of the race altogether, it's the first real disappointment Lidl-Trek have had this Grand Tour.
All involved at CyclingUpToDate send out our best wishes to Ciccone and rest assured we will keep up to date with any further developments and updates posted by Lidl-Trek.