🔥 What an explosive start! Very high pace and many teams attacking . 🔥 Inizio di fuoco, ritmo alto e molte squadre all'attacco #Giro #GirodItalia
Paul Lapeira becomes first rider to abandon at the 2023 Giro d'Italia
CyclingTuesday, 09 May 2023 at 15:30
AG2R Citroen Team's Paul Lapeira has become the first rider to abandon the 2023 Giro d'Italia, stepping off his bike after being dropped during a frantic beginning to stage 4.
Lapeira was actually the King of the Mountains jersey wearer earlier on in the race, after the 22-year-old Frenchman was part of the breakaway on stage 2 and took the maximum points available in the King of the Mountains classification.
Just a couple of days after his escapade in the breakaway saw him onto the post-stage podium, Lapeira has now stepped off his bike and called it a day. During a frantic, stressful opening to the stage, Lapeira was almost immediately put into difficulty.
Although it is currently unclear whether an unknown illness or injury may have played it's part in Lapeira calling it a day clearly something was troubling the young Frenchman.
Read also
claps 0visitors 439
Just in
Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter today!
Nov 05, 13:04
0
Popular news
Latest comments
- I think you overestimate scientific knowledge and for sure the spreading of it. There are huge numbers of people in similar situations, if there were an easy solution somebody would be making big money out of it. Nerve pain can have many complex origins or be due to complex combinations of reasons. Even if you discover a reason there is not always a solution. Migraines haven’t been solved either. I have had lower back/hip nerve pains on and off for over 30 years, no kind of doctor has ever found a way to reduce, prevent or solve the problem. It may just be that some people are born with nerves that are too short or get twisted out of position during certain movements.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- Amazing ride by her and very promising for her future. On a side note, it’s a bit worrying all these wins riders have after emotional moments in their lives, someone will come up with emotional doping at some point. Maybe give them fake news just before a big race to get hormones pumping.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- I doubt he will have the energy to do that if he continues to do leadout for Phillipsenabstractengineer22-12-2024
- I know several people who’ve tried contacting sport airbag manufacturers and none of them ever got a reply. Might be hard to organise anything with such attitudes.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- It's the BBC. Who cares outside of little Britain.leodis22-12-2024
- Crawl back under your stone.leodis22-12-2024
- Thanks Dadmobk22-12-2024
- Hard to believe with the advancment of modern medicine he can not find a cause for this.frieders321-12-2024
- You continue to platform these two cheats. With that in mind I can no longer use your site. I know my leaving means little, but, sometimes you have to take a stand. See ya!DJ21-12-2024
- Look at what Froome’s won since his last TdF, stop denying there is still more than possible one outcome to the future.Mistermaumau21-12-2024