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  "description": "The 2026 Giro d'Italia hasn't even started but the hits to its lineup keep coming. EF Education-EasyPost's Richard Carapaz is the latest team leader to withdraw from the event before its May 8 start in Bulgaria. The former winner of the Giro is still working to recover from surgery in early April for a perineal cyst. At the time, Carapaz expressed optimism that the procedure wouldn't impede his buildup to the Giro, but recovery was slower than hoped.\n\n\"Finding myself in this situation is frustra",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29T15:17:17.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The 2026 Giro d'Italia hasn't even started but the hits to its lineup keep coming. EF Education-EasyPost's Richard Carapaz is the latest team leader to withdraw from the event before its May 8 start in Bulgaria. The former winner of the Giro is still working to recover from surgery in early April for a perineal cyst. At the time, Carapaz expressed optimism that the procedure wouldn't impede his buildup to the Giro, but recovery was slower than hoped.\n\n\"Finding myself in this situation is frustrating because you put a lot of desire and time into it, but in the end I have to prioritize my health now and move forward,\" he said in a news release from his team. It's the latest blow to the GC contenders' lineup for the Giro; in the last week alone, UAE Team Emirates-XRG's João Almeida and Soudal-Quick Step's Mikel Landa have withdrawn from plans to start. And for EF it's the second withdrawal of a team leader for a key racing bloc in the month of April, after Ben Healy was forced out of the Ardennes Classics with a fractured sacrum. Carapaz says he will now refocus on July's Tour de France.",
  "title": "Carapaz is latest hopeful to bow out of Giro d'Italia",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-29T15:17:18.390Z"
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