Jury threatens Tadej Pogačar with Giro d’Italia disqualification over Castelli two-tone maglia rosa skinsuit with purple shorts
‘I have my pants but no skin suit, so maybe I can’t attack because I’m not fast’ jokes race leader
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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) (Image credit: Getty Images)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) swapped his purple or maroon-coloured shorts for team issue black shorts for stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia after UCI commissaires threatened to disqualify him from the race after due to conflicting interpretations of their own rules concerning leader’s jersey.
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Pogačar won stage 2 on Sunday and pulled on the race leader’s pink jersey. On Monday he raced in a pink upper and purple shorts as part of a skinsuit provided by race organisers RCS Sport and their clothing sponsor Castelli.
RCS Sport opted to combine the purple or ‘granata’ shorts with the pink jersey in homage to the Torino football team, who play in a maroon-coloured jersey. Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of the Superga air disaster, when a plane carrying the legendary Torino team of the time crashed near the city, killing all 31 people onboard.
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