Fines and time penalties Giro d'Italia 2024 | Peloton on its best behavior in first stage

Fines and time penalties Giro d’Italia 2024 | Peloton on its best behavior in first stage

Disposing of waste, prohibited positions on the bike, sticky bottles, or a shoulder push leading up to a bunch sprint – anything can happen during a race, especially in the Giro d’Italia, which consists of 21 stages. In this overview, IDLProCycling.com keeps track of the various violations and their corresponding penalties for you!

A rider can receive a penalty from the jury for various reasons. One common reason is discarding food and bottles. Special zones are designated on the course for this purpose. If a rider still discards waste outside of these zones, they (or the responsible team leader) can be fined for it.

In addition, fines are often handed out for incidents involving ‘sticky bottles’. This is when the rider saves energy by allowing themselves to be towed by the team car when receiving a bottle. Nowadays, riders also have to be mindful of their position on the bike. Positions such as the time trial position (placing wrists over the middle of the handlebars) during a stage and the ‘super-tuck’ (sitting on the top tube during a descent) have not been allowed by the jury for several years now. The UCI is responsible for this.

Fines are not the only penalty that the jury can impose. They can also issue time penalties or deduct points in secondary classifications such as the points classification or the mountain jersey. A rider’s UCI ranking points are not safe in the event of serious or repeated violations either. The severity of the violation, or the frequency of violations within a stage, also leads to a heavier penalty. The ultimate penalty would be disqualification, although this rarely happens in practice.

Fines and time penalties Giro d’Italia 2024

Stage 1

The peloton behaved exemplarily in the first stage of the Giro. Forty bikes were checked and the jury found all of these to be in perfect order.