Mike Sinyard, the founder and chairman of Specialized, has criticised the UCI’s decision to disqualify Lorena Wiebes from the Giro d’Italia Women, describing the sanction as “arbitrary” and suggesting male superstars would have been treated differently.
Speaking to Lennard Zinn’s Substack newsletter, Sinyard said: “The disqualification of Lorena is very arbitrary. Can you imagine if this was Mark Cavendish, Remco [Evenepoel], [Peter] Sagan, or any of the other men stars? There’s no frigging way that they would’ve been thrown out of the complete race.”
Specialized is the bike supplier to Wiebes’ Team SD Worx-Protime. Wiebes won stage one of the Giro d’Italia Women, but was subsequently disqualified from the race by UCI commissaires on the grounds that her bike was 20g below…
Published on: 2026-06-02 11:13:00
