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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Kasper Asgreen (EF Education-EasyPost) claimed a dramatic win in Stage 14 of the 2025 Giro d’Italia on Saturday afternoon. There was a huge crash due to the wet conditions which enabled Asgreen to take advantage and power his way through to the finish. Race leader Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) managed to avoid the crash and further extend his lead as his rivals endured a tough afternoon.
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Majestic Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) surged to a fourth win in the Giro d’Italia after outkicking Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) and pink jersey Isaac del Toro (UAE Emirates-XRG) on the uphill finish at Vicenza. It was a fifth win of the race for the Danish powerhouse’s Lidl-Trek team. Bonus seconds saw Del Toro extend his general classification lead to 38 seconds over team-mate Juan Ayuso.
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