When the Giro d’Italia race jury called on riders this week to stop urinating in bottles and discarding them, the response, naturally, was to look for the culprit.
The act was “strictly prohibited”, the race organisers reminded. Besides, who would do it anyway? Over the past few days, the investigation has gathered pace online under the moniker ‘pee-gate’. A Canadian outlet dubbed it ‘the icky bottle phenomenon’. Meanwhile, the Belgian press set out to ask riders who they thought was behind the offence.
