Overview
- Race officials removed Lorena Wiebes from the Giro Donne results after a UCI race jury said her bicycle weighed 6.78 kilograms, below the 6.8 kg minimum.
- Following the jury decision, the stage victory and the race leader’s pink jersey were awarded to Elisa Balsamo.
- SD Worx–Protime said the bike was 20 grams under the limit and reported more than a 50-gram difference between successive post-stage weighings of the same bicycle.
- The team also noted the same bike had been weighed earlier in the season by UCI officials and was previously above the 6.8 kg threshold.
- The incident highlights tensions over the UCI 6.8 kg rule and measurement reliability because tiny weight margins can fall within scale or procedural error, and the team has signaled it will formally contest the ruling.