‘This role doesn’t belong to me anymore’ – Barbara Guarischi steps into unfamiliar sprinting role at Giro d’Italia Women following Lorena Wiebes’s disqualification

After Lorena Wiebes‘s late-evening disqualification for having raced stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia Women on an underweight bike, the atmosphere in the SD Worx-Protime camp was rather bleak.

However, ‘the show must go on’, and the team decided to support Wiebes’s usual lead-out woman, Barbara Guarischi, for a result on stage 2. The 35-year-old Italian finished fifth in the bunch sprint in Caorle.