Thread by @laflammerouge16

#Giro - Vegni: "If everyone knew, why there were 30-40 riders on the start line while a group was in another part? Many riders came to me asking why the race had not started yet"

#Giro - Vegni said that for today is ok but what happened today damaged the image of the race and whatever effort has been done after Palermo.

#Giro - Salvato (CPA delegate) said that a vote has been done in the Telegram group the evening before and 16/18 team delegates were for shortening the stage.

#Giro - DS of Bahrain said that they were against the cancellation because 250 Km stage could have an impact in tomorrow stage.

#Giro - Kelderman now saying that he understand that Vegni can be furious, but the 10 km they rode this morning were "very cold"

#Giro - Vegni: "250 km today should've remained in the legs and should've an impact on tomorrow stage. This is cycling. If you don't want to run a stage because it's too long or you don't want to run a stage because it's too cold, stay at home"

#Giro - Vegni: "The same cyclist that took today's decision are the same that were concerning about not receiving wages from their teams few months ago"

#Giro - Demare: "We know this since the beginning of the week. Group reacted late"

#Giro - Demare asked if what would've happened in TDF: "10 years ago stages were shorter. We want to stop the doping, then we do 5000m denivel stage in which you end late at the hotel. It's contradictory. Hope cycling will evolve"

#Giro - Demare: "We went down the team bus ready to start, then someone told us that stage wouldn't have started."

#Giro - Lotto DS said that their riders were at the start, then everyone went down the tent because it was raining and some teams were late. Riders started to talk and someone decided that stage won't start. He don't know who took that decision.

#Giro - Salvato (CPA delegate): "It does seem that some DSs have not a good relationships with their riders because I've their messages while they say that their riders didn't know anything about it"

#Giro - Salvato (CPA delegate): "Riders took this decision because they didn't want to face this stage with cold (11 C°) after 15.000 denivel meters in 600 Km".

#Giro - Giuseppe Martinelli: "I was late, I didn't understand what happened. My riders said to me that there was a meeting. I told them <<go to the start, we'll start>>"

#Giro - Martinelli: "The fact that the stage was 250 Km was known, also that it would've rained. There were all the requirements to do today's stage. CPA missed there, riders are vulnerable and it's easy to find an agreement between them in the morning"

#Giro - Vegni: "If continues in this way, with everyone said that he didn't want to start, it will end that I was the one that canceled the stage. Everyone said that he didn't know anything"

#Giro - Bennati: "Today a dangerous precedent was set. What will happen next time that there will be a race with 12 degrees and rain? We won't race?"

#Giro - Nibali: "I understood that this morning when I was at the signature. Nobody spoke about me. I didn't know the motivations. They told me it was a CPA decision"

#Giro - Nibali: "That was in a chat telegram, but an informal telegram chat wasn't the right place to speak. I saw that there was a discussion in the evening before but it didn't seem me that a stage cut was decided there"

#Giro - Nibali: "We raced in more extreme conditions. Today was at limit"