Isaac del Toro's winning celebration at Milano-Torino earns him a fine
CyclingFriday, 21 March 2025 at 14:08
Isaac del Toro won what is so far the most impressive victory of his short career at Milano - Torino. The Mexican was the strongest in the hard climb up to Superga and took the victory, however he did so without zipping his jersey and that ultimately cost him a fine after the race.
Del Toro sprinted through the finish line with the UAE Team Emirates jersey completely open, which is forbidden by the UCI, for which he has been fined 200 Swiss francs. What is surprising is not the sanction, which was known to be forthcoming. The race report pointed towards "damage to the image of the sport". It is known that teams tell their riders to zip their jerseys for the finish line pictures so as to showcase their sponsors, however it came as a surprise that the Mexican would actually be punished by the race organization itself.
Isaac del Toro winning Milano-Torino this Wednesday
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- What a delusional bloke! Talking about fighting for the overall while being 13 minutes down the GC. It’s evident that his crash into the parked bus damaged not only his performance but brains as well. With Jonas as the best GT rider and other top GT GC riders absent.. it would have been more than 20minutes.
UltimateOpportunist01-06-2025 - However awful UAE's tactics were, and however bad the fear of being cracked again by Carapaz were, it is still almost beyond belief that Del Toro stopped fighting. Very sad, he had shown such fighting spirit.Hill3301-06-2025
- 1 will never know wth was UAE's tactics on this stage other than to lose the Giro
leedorney01-06-2025 - Hate to remind the author but he hasn’t won it yet. Not wishing any mishaps on anyone but…Mistermaumau01-06-2025
- I think they tried that in TdF. Visma was not happy that some strategic communications was leaked or something like that. It wasn't compulsory for every team to join. Did they stop it last year? I don't recall hearing radio communication last year.
KerisVroom01-06-2025 - When you’re a paid employee or contractor or self-employed you arrange what is best and parties either agree or not. Stating in advance how far you’ll go in a race because you have a specific task and other obligations is NOT being a quitter.Mistermaumau01-06-2025
- I tend to agree, it shows his immature side which is why he still can’t technically be a leader but then he doesn’t really need to be to achieve what he does. He’s won enough but he might have won even more with a little more foresight. It changes the spectator profile too, attracting more casual viewers (and by extension even crowds not really interested in cycling just to see what all the fuss is about just like people started taking a peak at football to find out what the Messi/Ronaldo fuss was about) to see the phenomenon whereas a Giro like this year attracts more loyal or passionate cycling enthusiasts, less of the beer throwing crowd.Mistermaumau01-06-2025
- You only read the title? Crash down has more subtle meanings too though it’s not used particularly well here, probably a foreigner’s bad attempt at a play on words.Mistermaumau01-06-2025
- Exactly, and most comments and commentators are always quick to point at the riders but riders are cooked and focused on riding, at many moments they aren’t capable of stringing together three sets of constantly changing variables into a logical strategical decision for change of tactics, that’s why they have earpieces and race directors who see the global picture, how it’s evolving and who have the luxury of being able to extrapolate what will happen if this or that and SHOULD be instructing riders how to continue. Maybe the day will come when like in F1 viewers (or just premium ones) will get to listen in on the chatter?Mistermaumau01-06-2025
- So nice that some people get to enjoy preparing for just one stage for do many months, and are then admired for achieving their goal :-)Mistermaumau01-06-2025
I'm surprised that this article didn't mention the fact that the zipper was broken, and he couldn't zip it up if he tried. That fact makes the UCI decision even more idiotic.
I thought it did mention that. Maybe I read that in a different article tho.