Matteo Jorgenson was reportedly attacked by Javier Romo when a racing incident extended into the team paddock on Saturday at Tirreno-Adriatico.<\/p>\n
According to Het Laatste Nieuws<\/em>, Jorgenson was grabbed by the neck and verbally threatened by Romo outside the Visma-Lease a Bike bus in the aftermath of a gruelling ride across the hills of Le Marche.<\/p>\n The incident was only cut short when Romo was pulled away by his Movistar team manager Max Sciandri.<\/p>\n According to HLN<\/em>, Jorgenson shouted \u201cAdios<\/em>\u201d in a taunting tone as he clambered back into his bus.<\/p>\n A Visma-Lease a Bike spokesperson brushed off the incident Monday when contacted by Velo<\/em>. \u201cIt was just a race incident, nothing special,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n Velo<\/em> has also reached out to Movistar for comment.<\/p>\n Jorgenson raced for Movistar through to 2023. Romo joined the Spanish squad in 2024.<\/p>\n HLN<\/em> states the beef began Saturday afternoon in an off-camera incident.<\/p>\n Visma-Lease a Bike was active for Jorgenson throughout Tirreno\u2019s sixth stage as the 26-year-old looked to improve on his then-third-place GC position. HLN<\/em> suggests an unseen maneuver by the American got Romo into a rage.<\/p>\n Whatever happened on Saturday, Visma seemed keen to play it down when contacted by Velo<\/em>.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, it\u2019s a shocking reminder of how minor spats can easily spill over in the tightly wound peloton.<\/p>\n And this wasn\u2019t Jorgenson\u2019s first public rodeo, either. The Idahoan was also caught in a flare-up with Tadej Poga\u010dar in a feed-zone incident at the Tour de France.<\/p>\n Jorgenson ultimately finished third on Saturday\u2019s relentlessly lumpy stage after he and GC leader Isaac del Toro traded attacks through a spicy hilltop finale.<\/p>\n Romo finished 14th on the day, 50 seconds later.<\/p>\n The \u201cKiller Bee\u201d then moved up to second overall in Sunday\u2019s final stage after he won an intermediate sprint courtesy of a full leadout by team Visma-Lease a Bike.<\/p>\n The bonus primes<\/em> were good for Jorgenson to overhaul Giulio Pellizzari in the standings and finish second behind only Del Toro.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it was the first ever sprint I\u2019ve won in my whole career,\u201d Jorgenson joked after the stage. \u201cWe did a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n Second at Tirreno-Adriatico rounds out a standout early block of racing for Jorgenson as he follows a risky new schedule through the spring.<\/p>\n He opted against defending his title at Paris-Nice \u2013 a race his teammate Jonas Vingegaard won instead \u2013 to team up with Wout van Aert through a string of Italian races.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really happy with second place in the end. We came here to win, for sure. I would have really liked to win that trident, but Del Toro was stronger than me at every turn, even in the time trial,\u201d Jorgenson told Cycling Pro Net<\/em> on Sunday. \u201cThere was no place I could come around him.<\/p>\n \u201cI think second place was the best I could do,\u201d Jorgenson said.<\/p>\n Next for Jorgenson and Van Aert?<\/p>\n A clash with Poga\u010dar, Del Toro, and Mathieu van der Poel at Milan-San Remo this Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/jorgenson-attacked-threatened-by-rival-at-tirreno\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tirreno-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated March 16, 2026 05:33AM Matteo Jorgenson was reportedly attacked by Javier Romo when a racing incident extended into the team paddock on Saturday at Tirreno-Adriatico. According to Het Laatste Nieuws, Jorgenson was grabbed by the neck and verbally threatened by Romo outside the Visma-Lease a Bike bus in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1831453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jorgenson on final podium in Tirreno after \u2018first ever sprint win\u2019<\/h2>\n
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