Medical Reports & Withdrawals Giro d'Italia 2026 Stage 3 - Adam Yates out of the race in DISASTER start for UAE

The Giro d’Italia has long built its reputation on attrition as much as spectacle. Across three weeks of racing between 8 May and 31 May, crashes, illness, exhaustion, and withdrawals can completely reshape the race, whether in chaotic bunch sprints, freezing mountain conditions or the brutal final week deep in the Alps and Dolomites.

This live Giro d’Italia medical reports and withdrawals hub will be updated throughout the race with the latest confirmed injuries, DNS, DNF and rider abandonments. As teams release medical updates and riders undergo further assessment after crashes or illness, this article will track all verified developments affecting the 2026 Giro d’Italia peloton and the fight for the Maglia Rosa.

After a relatively quiet opening day, the peloton was rocked by a mass crash in the finale. Although all involved managed to get up and finish the stage, some of the notable names to hit the deck were the likes of: Dylan Groenewegen, Kaden Groves, Erlend Blikra and Matteo Moschetti.

Stage 2 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia was one rocked by a mass crash as the race headed towards the finale on wet, slippery roads. Five confirmed DNFs in the form of Jay Vine, Marc Soler, Adne Holter, and Santiago Buitrago, but with many, many more riders going down in the incident, including Adam Yates, Derek Gee, Antonio Morgado and Corbin Strong most notably, it's likely peloton will be feeling the effects of the crash for the next few days at least.

For the first time in this Giro, the stage was relatively calm and without major incidents. Picnic's Timo de Jong was involved in a crash, but the majority of the peloton managed to escape unscathed from the third day of racing.

However that does not means riders have not left the race. At UAE's camp, it has been confirmed that the previously withdrawn Jay Vine and Marc Soler have suffered the following injuries: Elbow fracture and concussion for Vine; fractured pelvis for Soler. Their teammate Adam Yates has not started today's stage after having been assessed with lacerations to his ear and a post-stage diagnosed concussion.

Andrea Vendrame of Jayco also did not start the stage after having been diagnosed with three fractured vertebrae, a consequence of the stage 2 crash.