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Many back home in Mexico are now championing Del Toro as a national success story. But given all the difficulties Jose Del Toro has endured with Mexican Cycling over the years, he’s not quite on the same wavelength. “We had to spend so much money on doctors, medication, supplements, lab work\u2026 Isaac always dreamed of representing his flag, and I\u2019m proud too \u2014 but it hurts to hear these things,” he explains. “It\u2019s outrageous, unbelievable\u2026 and it\u2019s expensive, very expensive. You pay a high price to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey always talk about millions and millions being invested, but I don\u2019t know a single cyclist who gets their travel paid, or their entry fees, or even their meals. I struggled so much with my kids and never got a single bit of help,\u201d continues the UAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/a> star’s father. \u201cIt felt like begging for charity.\u201d\"del<\/p>\n

Del Toro was the breakout star of the 2025 Giro d’Italia<\/p>\n

To prove his point about the lack of help given to his son by Mexican Cycling, Jose recalls a nightmare situation at the 2022 Cyclocross World Championship in Arkansas, USA. “One day, at a workshop, the mechanics looked on in disbelief \u2014 how could they possibly race at a World Championship with those bikes?” Del Toro senior remembers. “They even tried to lend better ones to Isaac and Carlos Garc\u00eda. But Isaac declined \u2014 he didn\u2019t want to race on a bike he wasn\u2019t familiar with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, on the eve of the race, he received a very concerning phone call from his son. \u201cIt must have been around 7 or 8 in the evening when Isaac called me and said: \u2018Dad, we\u2019re really hungry and really thirsty. Can you bring us something?\u2019\u00a0I was shocked,” he recalls. “\u2018What? You haven\u2019t eaten?\u2019 \u2018No, and we\u2019re so thirsty.\u2019 My God, how is that possible? The night before the World Championship!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say the uniform is provided \u2014 but that\u2019s not true. I paid for it, and they wouldn\u2019t approve him to race unless I did. In the end, he had to compete in a borrowed one because the one they sent was for a woman,” he continues. “Mexico is the only country where they sell you a new license number every year. Everywhere else, your number is for life \u2014 so the UCI can track your full career. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t know anything about Mexican cyclists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I\u2019m nobody, that nothing\u2019s going to change, and that nothing will happen because of this. But when I hear what\u2019s being said now, I feel enormous frustration,” Jose Del Toro concludes. “A thousand memories flood in \u2014 and my biggest pain is thinking about all the young cyclists, Isaac\u2019s teammates, who have already quit. Because honestly, continuing in this sport is almost impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many back home in Mexico are now championing Del Toro as a national success story. But given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160021","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\/114630407274691127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160021","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=160021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}