Victor Campenaerts might be the one peeing in bottles at the Giro

Cor Vos

After race commissaires called for riders at the Giro d'Italia to stop peeing in their bottles earlier this week, Belgian journalists went to work looking for the perpetrators. It didn't take long for two members of the Giro peloton to both point the finger at the same rider.

If Oliver Naesen (Decathlon-CMA CGM) and Arjen Livyns (XDS-Astana) are to be believed, Victor Campenaerts' array of skills includes not only setting tempo at the front of the bunch and making excellent social media content for Visma-Lease a Bike, but also relieving himself on the go.

"It doesn’t happen often," Livyns told Het Nieuwsblad. "I’ve never done it myself, and I actually only know one rider who definitely does: Victor Campenaerts. I think he invented the concept, because he was already doing it when we rode together at Lotto."

Livyns and Campenaerts were teammates for two years at the team then called Lotto Dstny.

Naesen, another Belgian veteran, also pointed the finger at Campenaerts while naming another pro – and one of the biggest names in cycling this millennium, no less – as an even earlier adopter of the profane procedure for urinating without dismounting.

"I've known about them since the days of Peter Sagan; he did that often," Naesen said of pee bottles in a conversation with Sporza. "I only know two who do it: Campi [Victor Campenaerts] and Sagan."

"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."

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