{"id":311845,"date":"2025-11-27T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311845\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:03:08","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%a5-how-isaac-del-toro-turned-mexicos-birthday-cake-into-a-cycling-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311845\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfa5 How Isaac Del Toro turned Mexico\u2019s birthday cake into a cycling crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaac Del Toro<\/a> has quickly put Mexico on the map as a cycling country in just under two years. The winner of as many as 18 races in 2025 and the runner-up at the Giro d’Italia is spending his offseason after two national cycling titles (road + time trial) in his home country, and there he was graced with a cake and honorable sports award on Thursday on his birthday.First, let’s sing for the birthday boy, as Del Toro blew out 22 candles on a cake presented to him on Nov. 27 at the awards show he attended – dressed in a suit<\/a>. The UAE Emirates-XRG climbing talent<\/a> was a little uneasy about it, but luckily for him it all happened backstage and not on the big stage.<\/p>\n

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Del Toro beats soccer players in Mexican awards show<\/p>\n

Once on the big stage, Del Toro was honored once again, and as Sportsman of the Year in Mexico. Now your first thought as a cycling fan is: logical, after such a year full of victories and in a country not known for its many top athletes. Yet Del Toro is the first Mexican to win the award as a cyclist, in a country that, on the contrary, mostly runs away with soccer.<\/p>\n

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Del Toro enjoys offseason in Mexico<\/p>\n

With the award proudly in his hand, Del Toro took a photo after the awards show. It just doesn’t stop for the man, who has climbed to second on the ladder at UAE in a short time. Tadej Pogacar is, of course, the big leader with the team, but Del Toro seems to have a right to speak toward 2026 when it comes to programs and big races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Del Toro has quickly put Mexico on the map as a cycling country in just under two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,93896,85,13640],"class_list":{"0":"post-311845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-isaac-del-toro","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uae-team-emirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}