{"id":151353,"date":"2025-06-02T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151353\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:56:09","slug":"i-feel-sorry-for-del-toro-team-bosses-react-to-isaac-del-toros-heartbreaking-giro-defeat-to-simon-yates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151353\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel sorry for del Toro\u201d \u2013 Team bosses react to Isaac del Toro\u2019s heartbreaking Giro defeat to Simon Yates"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cYesterday I was surprised right from the start,\u201d he told
\nItalian media.<\/a> \u201cWhy send away a breakaway of thirty riders with ten minutes to
\ngo? Usually, you don’t do that in the queen stage of the Giro. A couple of
\nriders from UAE and a couple from EF would have been enough to keep the
\nattackers at bay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reverberi suggested that allowing Wout van Aert into the
\nbreak ultimately created the perfect storm for Yates and Team Visma | Lease a
\nBike.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the breakaway at 4\u20135 minutes, Van Aert would never
\nhave reached the top in front of Yates. And instead this move by Visma, which I
\ndon’t know if it was voluntary or not, turned out to be decisive in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tactically, Reverberi questioned Del Toro\u2019s passivity when
\nYates launched his decisive attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually in these cases the responsibility of pulling is on
\nthe pink jersey, so maybe del Toro should have immediately tried to close on
\nYates, without waiting for Carapaz. Maybe after a while the Ecuadorian would
\nhave also collaborated, to defend the second place. But you know, in the end
\nit’s the legs that count, and the Mexican probably didn’t have more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was also in awe of Yates\u2019 performance on the Finestre,
\nwhich was historically fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw Simon personally when they stopped our team car that
\nwas behind the breakaway: no one climbed like him, he had a completely
\ndifferent pace. Let’s not forget that he took four minutes less than Froome in
\n2018: so yes, he went very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valerio Piva, who worked closely with Yates during his time
\nat Jayco AlUla, said the Brit\u2019s experience and growth as a rider were key.<\/p>\n

\u201cYates is experienced and knows how to manage himself, he
\ndidn’t make the mistake he made seven years ago,\u201d Piva noted. \u201cYesterday was
\nthe queen stage of this Giro, we knew it and it turned out to be decisive. For
\nthe rest, I prefer to look at my own home: we at Jayco closed the Giro with two
\nstage victories, we are very satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tudor\u2019s sports director Matteo Tosatto emphasised
\nthat tactical missteps may have played a role, but in the end, it was the
\nstrongest rider who won.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, in my opinion, the strongest always wins. Maybe
\nthere were some tactical errors: we should understand what happened between del
\nToro and Carapaz, if the Mexican had the legs to follow Yates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, Simon ran with great intelligence: he took
\nadvantage of Carapaz’s super aggressive tactics, he didn’t respond at the first
\nsprints, then he took advantage of the marking between the first two and went
\naway. They are happy for him, because he closed a circle that opened seven
\nyears ago, even if I have to admit that I feel sorry for del Toro, a boy who
\nwill have a great future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cYesterday I was surprised right from the start,\u201d he told Italian media. \u201cWhy send away a breakaway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-151353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612232799613572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}