{"id":169160,"date":"2025-06-09T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169160\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:44:10","slug":"if-i-lost-the-giro-i-would-rather-throw-myself-off-a-tower-than-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169160\/","title":{"rendered":"If I lost the Giro, I would rather throw myself off a tower than celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 days in the lead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/giro-ditalia\" title=\"Giro d&#039;Italia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giro d&#8217;Italia<\/a>, Del Toro lost the lead of his maiden Giro d&#8217;Italia on the final competitive stage, matching Richard Carapaz&#8217; every attack on the Colle delle Finestre but later on being overtaken by Simon Yates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The objective is to contain Carapaz, but don&#8217;t you realize that you are losing everything,&#8221; the Italian sprinter, a winner of many stages at the Giro, continued. The Mexican ultimately lost the provisional lead, and with Simon Yates assistance at the head of the race, hopes were reduced quite a lot in the Del Toro group, which stopped after Carapaz refused to collaborate with his rival following the climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 11 days in the lead of the Giro d&#8217;Italia, Del Toro lost the lead of his maiden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169160","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\/114651113858764326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169160","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=169160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}