The Giro d’Italia will be decided on the Colle delle Finestre on Saturday, with just 43 seconds separating Isaac del Toro in the pink jersey and former champion Richard Carapaz. Del Toro extended his lead in the general classification on Stage 19, albeit by only two seconds courtesy of time bonuses for placing second on Friday’s Stage 19. Nicolas Prodhomme took a maiden Grand Tour win.
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Nico Denz salvaged Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Giro d’Italia with an opportunistic win from the breakaway on Stage 18. Denz got in the key move on the circuit in Cesano Maderno, missed by fellow breakaway acts Mads Pedersen and Wout van Aert, then went solo to the finish to triumph by over a minute. Earlier, Juan Ayuso abandoned the race after suffering an allergic reaction to a bee sting.
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Isaac del Toro staged a superb recovery to win Stage 17 at the Giro d’Italia, just 24 hours after a bruising day in the mountains hinted his days in pink were numbered. The Mexican was on the ropes again on Wednesday’s run to Bormio when he dropped back on the mighty Mortirolo, but he regrouped magnificently before launching a late move to take a maiden Grand Tour stage win.
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Isaac del Toro cracked as Italy got a home winner on a chaotic Stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia, while Primoz Roglic abandoned. Christian Scaroni won the day for XDS Astana, but that was far from the only talking point from Tuesday’s unrelenting mountain stage. Both Simon Yates and Richard Carapaz made huge gains on the Mexican leader, who still holds a 26-second buffer to second place.
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Primoz Roglic’s hopes of a second Giro d’Italia title took a monumental hit as he leaked 90 seconds on his main rivals on Stage 15, leaving him almost four minutes adrift of Isaac del Toro in the leader’s pink jersey with a week to go. Carlos Verona took a fine win from the breakaway, but the main drama happened further down the road with UAE’s tactics called into question and Roglic losing time.
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