Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 17: San Michele all’Adige – Bormio, 155 km

[Moose McKnuckles]

Del Toro absolutely brilliant today. What a response. This Giro is delivering.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I think Carapaz will murder him on Friday and Saturday though. But it's great that he bounced back like this. Really riding to this strenghts today.

Friday he can survive. Saturday will be harder, but he may yet save his jersey on the descent of Finestre like a latter-day Savoldelli.

 

[steffr222]

Brillant ride and final move by Del Toro. Still will be a hard weekend for him.

 

[Unchained]

Del Toro in destroyer mode.. Viva Mexico!!!!

 

[Cycling111]

A stage for Del Toro, but I think Carapaz will win the overall. He wasn't intelligent in his attack at Mortirolo today, but the Friday and Saturday stages propably are too hard for Del Toro.

 

[dgodave]

Glad he won a great stage - just in case he doesnt win the whole thing.

 

[noob]

Poor Bardet

 

[Red Lobster]

LOVE THIS KID DEL TORO

(love Carapaz too ofc)

 

[Rou]

Majestic del Toro.

 

[will-10]

That was all class, man I love this guy

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Bardet is so disappointed he can't speak..aaagh

The stage suited him

 

[Unchained]

...they might take it from him...he's not giving it to them Yo George, Johan..how you like him now!!!?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Piganzoli and Storer finished at 4 minutes

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

That was quite beautiful. This is the reason this is the best sport on the planet.

 

[Brullnux]

Friday he can survive. Saturday will be harder, but he may yet save his jersey on the descent of Finestre like a latter-day Savoldelli.

I wouldn't underestimate Friday, it's a lot of long, hard climbs and even Joux is 15km at 7%. The gradients aren't crazy but we saw at Livigno last year and in the Tour in general that 6-8% gradients can cause damage.

 

[red_flanders]

I wouldn't underestimate Friday, it's a lot of long, hard climbs and even Joux is 15km at 7%. The gradients aren't crazy but we saw at Livigno last year and in the Tour in general that 6-8% gradients can cause damage.

Yeah I think a lot of long climbs is enough to cause major pain at this point.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Friday he can survive. Saturday will be harder, but he may yet save his jersey on the descent of Finestre like a latter-day Savoldelli.

I think if the steeper section is longer today he already would have had to do that today. Friday is absolutely brutal, and Finestre is such a hard climb. We'll see. Hoping for an exiting race. I'd like Carapaz to win, but I like del Toro a lot from what I've seen, also seems like a nice chap.

 

[Cycling111]

Poor Bardet

Thanks to Q36.5. If it had been for UAE, break would´ve won the stage.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Douglas Ryder and his mercenaries are my enemy now.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I hope Del Toro's mother has a cross with her to keep her safe from dracula Gianetti

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I do feel bad for Bardet, I can't lie, but I was happy to see Del Toro take the stage after yesterday. He rode like a champion. And, of course, I'm always thrilled to see Carapaz at the front as well.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I wouldn't underestimate Friday, it's a lot of long, hard climbs and even Joux is 15km at 7%. The gradients aren't crazy but we saw at Livigno last year and in the Tour in general that 6-8% gradients can cause damage.

Can is the key word here. It is nowhere near a guarantee he will.

 

[noob]

Why Visma doing the work of UAE?

 

[pelotonIQ]

What a way from Toro to silence the haters that talked too much on Mortirolo

 

[Red Rick]

Friday is all 7% grinders. Nobody is gonna pace that hard enough for long enough.