Along with its beautiful route throughout Italy, the Giro d’Italia is known for its drama. Unpredictable weather, chaotic finishes and brutally tough terrain make for a very difficult 21 days of racing to finish as the attrition wears on.
This year’s Giro d’Italia has seen riders abandon, of course, through unfortunate crashes as there always is. But the field has mainly been heavily affected by illness in the second week, with viruses and fever being reported across teams after the first rest day.
It was mainly the sprint field plagued by sickness, with stage 9 winner Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) one of four fast men to abandon before stage 10 with reported sickness.
But just a day later on stage 11, his teammate and Visma’s GC leader Cian Uijtdebroeks was also forced to abandon due to falling ill after the stage 10 summit finish. He is the highest-profile GC rider to leave the race so far but Bora-Hansgrohe were also hampered with the former losing their second option for the overall, Florian Lipowitz to sickness.
Crashes took out Kooij’s key leadout man Christophe Laporte and Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) after the Eritrean fell twice in a wet descent on stage 4 and had to stop.
Visma-Lease a Bike and Israel-Premier Tech are the worst affected teams – at the time of writing both teams have half of their respective teams out and only four men left in the race.
Half of the 22 teams that started the 2024 Giro have lost at least one rider, while the other still enjoy a full complement of riders to compete in the second and third weeks.
Race favourite Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has avoided illness and injury in his Giro debut, despite a few complaints about allergies and a slide-out on stage 2, as has his whole team.
155 riders remain at the 2024 Giro heading into stage 11, with some way to go for the abandons total to get close to one of the most attritional editions of the race in recent memory at the 2023 race which only saw 124 riders finish in Rome.
Read on for the full rundown of withdrawals from the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 8
Stage 9
Stage 10
Stage 11
The full list of remaining riders at the 2024 Giro d’Italia, powered by FirstCycling
