'He'll have to learn to deal with the expectation' – UAE Team Emirates-XRG back Isaac del Toro for future success after Giro d'Italia
Team focuses on the positives 🅺despite losing pink jersey on stage 20

澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates-XRG painted a picture of positivity even after losing the澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果: Giro d'Italia lead on the penultimate day, choosing to focus on what澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果: Isaac del Toro has achieved in this race ra🦂ther than his failure to win overall.
Whilst Visma-Lease a Bike celebrated and 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:EF Education-EasyPost criticised UAE's💎 tactics, rather than any tactical hand-wringing or blaming, Del 🐲Toro's team honed in on the success of the Mexican rider.
It's unusu𒊎al to see a team as happy as UAE were on Saturday after losing the lead of a Grand Tour at the ve🙈ry last minute, especially in a situation where in many ways, it seemed more like a racing tactic than a lack of legs that had scuppered the team's plans. But they celebrated, nonetheless.
"I congratulated Isaac on what he's done at the Giro in the last three weeks," team manage꧑r Mauro Gianetti recounted of what he said to Del Toro after the line.
"I🍃 told him he should be proud of what he's achieved. He's becomꦦe a different and better rider."
Del Toro started the race planning to be a domestique for pre-race leader Juan Ayuso, but took the pink jersey on the gravel road to Siena on stage 9. Af�♒�ter Ayuso's fitness declined through injury, he then moved into sole leadership.
The 21-year-old stepped up f👍ully to the challenge and will ultimately be rewarded with a stage win, winner in the best young rider's c꧂lassification and second overall in his second-ever Grand Tour. Long-term, he's the youngest podium finisher at the Giro in 85 years, which for his team is more important than his capitulation on stage 20.
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"What he's done in these three weeks is something exceptional," Gianetti said. "I am very, very proud of him, of the team, and of how fast he's learned. Of course, it would have been better to win the Giro, but certainly we've discovered a great🤡 rider."
When asked if Del Toro might be a 'possible' phenomeno🔴n, his team boss was clear that he thinks he 🃏is already there.
"I don't th⛦ink it's just possible, he is a phenomenon and that's for sure," Gianetti said, adding that this result will likely change the im♐mediate future of Del Toro's career.
"Now he'll have to learn to de🐻al with all the attention and expectation, he'll have to race up front, perhaps a little further up front."
UAE also refused to be drawn into the blame game around whether Del Toro or Richard Carapaz should have worked together 🐽or not, suggesting that the young Mexican💖 just didn't have the strength on the day.
"He d🃏id what he had to do, b⛦ut in the end his legs were missing," DS Fabio Baldato told
The only inter-team rivalry that UAE did indulge was their ongoing Grand Tour battle with Visma-Lease a Bike, the team they've gone up against at the Tour de France with Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard for the last four years.
Though neither rider were in Italy, it was a Visma rider that beat a UAE rider on stage 20, with Gianetti saying it was "a little bit of revenge for the Tour" from the Dutch team. In any case, Grand Tour hostilities🍎 are set to resume in France next month.
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Matilda is an NCTJ-qualified journalist based in the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025. Prior to that, she worked as the Racing News Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Red Bull and more. She has reported from many of the biggest events on the calendar, including the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. She has particulꦰar 😼experience and expertise in women's cycling, and women's sport in general. She is a graduate of modern languages and sports journalism.
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