The start of the second stage of the Tour of Italy was disrupted by an unexpected error. Following a typing error by the organizers, the best climber’s jersey was mistakenly awarded to a cyclist. Despite the confusion, the start was finally given a few minutes late.
The second stage of the Tour of Italy was marked on Sunday by a confusion around the blue jersey of the mountain classification which changed hands a few minutes from the start, following an error by the organizers. While the American Brandon McNulty (UAE) was on the podium with the blue jersey after the prologue the day before, it was finally the Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos) who donned the tunic of best climber on Sunday.
Organizers have since realized they made a ‘bib typo’ to mistakenly award McNulty the lead in the mountain standings, based on the riders’ times in the final bump of the 2018 time trial. ‘opening.
Pink jersey for Evenepoel
“I just found out, I have no idea what happened, there was a bit of confusion,” McNulty commented at the start of the second stage which he finally finished. taken with the white jersey of best young person, even if he is older than Remco Evenepoel and Joao Almeida, better classified than him in the general classification.
But Evenepoel, at the head of the Giro, logically put on the leader’s pink jersey while Almeida, third overall, preferred to wear that of Portuguese champion, as the regulations allow him. Promised to sprinters, the second stage of the Giro on Sunday takes the peloton from Teramo to San Salvo (201 km), along the Adriatic coast.