Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 20: Verrès – Sestrière, 205 km

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm pretty sure he would take that deal

Well IPT are looking for a replacement for Fuglsang...

 

[gregrowlerson]

The 7 year itch.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Del Toro will be here next year with Almeida.

 

[Salvarani]

I have a feeling from the start of the climb the director told him to sit on Carapaz and wait for his team to catch back up, clearly a miscalculation. UAE has a history of stupid sport directors.

Severe misjudgement.

They should have told him to close the gap to Yates on the climb, while the gap was managable. Dont sit on the wheel of Carapaz. Carapaz was cooking himself with his attacks.

 

[Cycling111]

He didnt lose because of himself.

Once Simon moved forward, he should´ve taken over from Carapaz.

But as I said, I don't blame him directly. It's the UAE car's fault.

Del Toro is 21 years old and he's no Pogacar. The situation has overtaken him.

 

[Potomac]

If they’d worked together enough to keep Yates within a minute or so, that point might be valid, but they’ve both actively thrown it.

Carapaz’s Giro win is 6 years ago now. His team haven’t won a GT since 2012; this was the biggest chance they’ll get for a long time to come. There’s no way he can be absolved of blame for this result.

Carapaz saw Del Toro wasn't going to get dropped. Why would carapaz continue pulling IDT ?

 

[Scarponi]

Yates should celebrate crossing the line even though he didn’t win the stage

 

[dazaau]

I have a feeling from the start of the climb the director told him to sit on Carapaz and wait for his team to catch back up, clearly a miscalculation. UAE has a history of stupid sport directors.

Crazy when the gc favourites are shattered across the mountain to think your dom's will spin back to you and then pull you back to the front 😂

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Simon will have won 2 GTs now
Adam none

goes to show being very good sometimes and rubbish other times is better than being a top Dom all the time

 

[ppanther92]

Think in the end Del Toro simply is not good enough in the high mountains yet (stage 16 and today). But UAE is also an idiotic team. Chase Del Toro for Ayuso and today focusing solely on Carapaz.

 

[Leinster]

This is pure cinema after what happened to yates there in 2018.

I’m so mad at Carapaz and Del Toro I’m finding it hard to be as happy as I should be for Yates.

 

[Salvarani]

Once Simon moved forward, he should´ve taken over from Carapaz.

But as I said, I don't blame him directly. It's the UAE car's fault.

Del Toro is 21 years old and he's no Pogacar. The situation has overtaken him.

You literally said he lost because of himself.

He didnt do that.

 

[Fantastico]

I feel sorry for Del Toro. He lost because of himself, but he's still too young, and UAE has approached this stage as if Del Toro were Pogacar.

They did not. Pogacar would have attacked.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Severe misjudgement.

They should have told him to close the gap to Yates on the climb, while the gap was managable. Dont sit on the wheel of Carapaz. Carapaz was cooking himself with his attacks.

He should have tried to help Carapaz close the gap, if he had the leg. But they are 5:30 down by now, I think Yates would have dropped them whatever they did. They had nearly caught him and then just couldn't close the gap as Yates was grinding away to the top.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Can't wait for the interviews after this stage and I hope they ask the difficult questions.

 

[Froome]

Now it will be uae car fault. The guy even gave up from chasing in the descent.

 

[dazaau]

Carapaz saw Del Toro wasn't going to get dropped. Why would carapaz continue pulling IDT ?

I suppose to get second. But I think carapaz has enough of those, so he had far less to lose

 

[Salvarani]

Think im the end Del Toro also simply is not yet good enough in the high mountains yet (stage 16 and today). But UAE is also an idiotic team. Chase Del Toro for Ayuso and today focusing solely on Carapaz.

UAE Giro summed up.

 

[nightowl]

Am I the only one who doesn’t think Del Toro had more energy for Finestre? He looked dead on his feet to me, I’m pretty sure the argument is because Carapaz refused to pull afterwards, at which point the race was over with Van Aert pulling for Yates

 

[Tim Cahill]

They did the entire climb and I still have no idea how good Del Toro actually was on there and how much he had left, he looked very easy but simultaneously let loads of gaps go without ever really hitting the front

 

[gregrowlerson]

Of all the great cycling stages this is possibly my favourite. It's just such a stunning story.

 

[Eclipse]

IDT and UAE absolutely crapped the bed. Probably one of the most horrible ways to lose a GT we've seen.

 

[Stubb]

I have a feeling from the start of the climb the director told him to sit on Carapaz and wait for his team to catch back up, clearly a miscalculation. UAE has a history of stupid sport directors.

The Bald-adto fraud.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Big loss for Egan today

 

[Sciatic]

The final winning time gap (4-5 min) is going to look like Yates dominated this Giro for 3 weeks