{"id":203242,"date":"2025-10-06T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=203242"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:30:22","slug":"del-toro-snatches-giro-dellemilia-win-from-pidcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/10\/06\/del-toro-snatches-giro-dellemilia-win-from-pidcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro Snatches Giro dell\u2019Emilia Win from Pidcock with Late Burst"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG\u2019s rising young superstar Isaac del Toro added another triumph to his growing Palmares by catching Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) in the final kilometre of Saturday\u2019s Giro dell’Emilia and beating him to the finish line.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Briton had launched a promising solo break with 1.8 km left to ride in the 199.2 km race from Mirandola to San Luca, outside Bologna, halfway up the fifth ascent of the San Luca climb (2.1 km @ 9.4%), and quickly built a decent gap on the other favourites, including del Toro, Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe), Richard Carapaz (EF Education\u2013EasyPost) and Lenny Martinez (Bahrain-Victorious). But he tired on the steep slopes of the climb, which had gradients up to 20.6%.<\/p>\n

And del Toro is very good at doing nothing. He did nothing as his powerful UAE team took the steam out of his rivals by riding at a high pace much of the race, he did nothing as rider after rider initiated breaks on the final two ascents of the San Luca, and he did nothing but ride calmly in back of the chase group while Pidcock rode away to what looked like a certain victory. But he finally did something when the Briton rode under the Flamme Rouge, bursting out of the chase group and catching Pidcock 700 m from the line.<\/p>\n

And then he did nothing again, as he calmly rode on his rival\u2019s wheel until, with 250 m left to ride, he burst past him and took his 14th victory of the year, without seemingly breaking a sweat. Pidcock crossed the line a scant second behind the 21-year-old Mexican, and Martinez finished third, at 5 seconds, an impressive result in view of the fact that he rode after almost every attempted break on the final two climbs.<\/p>\n

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