Info @Gazzetta_it - in the roster of @TeamEmiratesUAE for @StradeBianche saturday (Siena) there will be also @ISAACDELTOROx1, the 20 years old mexican already stage winner at @tourdownunder in january @BiciGoga
Isaac Del Toro set to team up with Tadej Pogacar for the first time at Strade Bianche
CyclingMonday, 26 February 2024 at 10:52
When you have a diamond in the rough you have to polish it with finesse and that's what UAE Team Emirates has set out to do with the reigning Tour de l'Avenir winner, Isaac del Toro. The young Mexican couldn't have started his WorldTour career any better, winning a stage at the Tour Down Under and finishing on the podium in the general classification, and is now set to race Strade Bianche.
Then he went to Portugal, where he was not very successful in the Figueira Champions Classic although he put on a strong performance. In the Volta ao Algarve he showed that he will be a talent in all terrains finishing fourth in the 22-kilometer time trial ahead of men like Filippo Ganna or Wout van Aert. In the following stage, the fifth, he had to abandon the race, not being able to show his climbing skills on the Alto do Malhão.
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Now, after a few days of rest, it seems that he is ready to return to nothing less than one of the great classics of the modern calendar: Strade Bianche. As confirmed by Gazzetta dello Sport's Ciro Scognamiglio. We'll see if he goes as a domestique or has the freedom to try to do something on the gravel roads and streets of Siena.
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maria2024202424-11-2024 - First of all, calm, this is a site to share point of views, doubts, intuitions about cycling. Let's think about it: if someone tells you that he is very tired but is going to run unimportant races immediately, ignoring a world championship much further away in time that would give him the opportunity to rest, there is something very contradictory. Maybe it is fair, but as a simple spectator I (and many others) do not understand it, it does not make sense.maria2024202424-11-2024
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- Winners seem to be like this. Win or lose, it is always on to the next thing. They don’t celebrate the big win, they don’t worry about the painful loss. They move on. It’s an amazing skill. But to be able to ride (and win) while not being able to walk? That’s a level of pain management that boggles my mind. Of course they have it, given what they put their bodies through, but it’s just crazy.RidesHills24-11-2024
- Poor Demi. But she behaves the same way when riding for the national team. Bring me my tiny violin.Renz24-11-2024
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- I'd like to hear what the other side has to say.mij24-11-2024