{"id":190980,"date":"2025-10-05T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:01:10","slug":"del-toro-beats-pidcock-who-is-satisfied-ahead-of-a-very-ambitious-double-in-the-seasons-final-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190980\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro beats Pidcock, who is satisfied ahead of a very ambitious double in the season’s final weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Championships in cycling and the Giro dell’Emilia<\/a> are on the same weekend. We don’t know exactly who came up with this idea, but hopefully it will only happen once. With a somewhat reduced field of participants, we saw a strong podium<\/a> in Bologna, consisting of Isaac del Toro<\/a>, Tom Pidcock<\/a>, and Lenny Martinez.<\/p>\n

In the absence of his teammate Tadej Pogacar, who was racing in France on Sunday, Del Toro claimed his fifth one-day victory in the Italian autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was well protected the whole day, and the team did amazing work for me on each lap,\u201d said the Mexican<\/a> after the race. “I was able to save energy and focus on the last climb, where in the end it was decided.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI had the strength to close the last attack and win the race. I wasn\u2019t sure I had it until about 50m to go, and it\u2019s a great feeling,\u201d said Del Toro, who stayed ahead of Pidcock.<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n

\"IsaacPidcock off to a good start to a busy final weekend of the season<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m happy to feel good again after La Vuelta,\u201d said Pidcock. Finishing second again is a bitter pill to swallow, but it’s always positive to be on the podium and a good way to start the final week of the season.”<\/p>\n

The Brit has an ambitious schedule for next week, as he will ride the Tour of Lombardy on Saturday and the World Gravel Championships in Valkenburg the following day.<\/p>\n

Visma | Lease a Bike finished with two riders in the top ten in Italy: Ben Tulett was sixth and Cian Uijtdebroeks ninth. \u201cThe guys put in a strong team performance today. The first important moment in the race was the first passage of San Luca, and we were well positioned there with Ben, J\u00f8rgen Nordhagen, and Tijmen Graat,\u201d sports director Marc Reef said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCian also moved up quickly, putting us with four riders at the front. In the final, Cian tried a few good accelerations, but unfortunately, he didn’t get enough space. In the end, Ben and Cian gave everything to finish in the top ten, and we are happy with that. They showed that they are in good shape, especially with a view to the upcoming races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Championships in cycling and the Giro dell’Emilia are on the same weekend. We don’t know exactly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-190980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}