{"id":483283,"date":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:45:07","slug":"its-a-dream-come-true-antonio-tiberi-charges-to-first-worldtour-win-as-remco-evenepoel-sheds-time-on-uae-tour-stage-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483283\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a dream come true&#8217; \u2013 Antonio Tiberi charges to first WorldTour win as Remco Evenepoel sheds time on UAE Tour stage three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"f9e540cd-f644-420d-aede-bd2e63436322\">Antonio Tiberi flew to his first ever WorldTour win on stage three of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/the-remco-evenepoel-tour-de-france-hype-starts-here-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-uae-tour-2026\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/the-remco-evenepoel-tour-de-france-hype-starts-here-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-uae-tour-2026\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/the-remco-evenepoel-tour-de-france-hype-starts-here-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-uae-tour-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Tour<\/a> on Wednesday, as race leader <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-remco-evenepoel\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-remco-evenepoel\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-remco-evenepoel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a> lost over two minutes on the steep climb of Jebel Mobrah.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Bahrain Victorious&#8217;s Tiberi climbed into the red leader&#8217;s jersey. Stage one winner <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/news\/who-is-isaac-del-toro-and-where-did-he-come-from\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/news\/who-is-isaac-del-toro-and-where-did-he-come-from\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/news\/who-is-isaac-del-toro-and-where-did-he-come-from\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac del Toro<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) finished second, but couldn&#8217;t challenge Tiberi after he attacked with just over four kilometres to go.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"f9e540cd-f644-420d-aede-bd2e63436322-2\">After being out of position when the attack happened, Del Toro finished 15 seconds behind the victor, with former UAE Tour winner Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Intermarch\u00e9) finishing third, a further 14 seconds back.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">As well as Tiberi&#8217;s first ever WorldTour win, it was also the first glory for Bahrain Victorious in 2026. Evenepoel, meanwhile, showed weakness for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;This is amazing,&#8221; Tiberi said post-stage. &#8220;It&#8217;s a dream come true. I&#8217;ve been dreaming to this kind of victory since I turned pro. It finally arrived after the beginning of the season was already good from the first race. I was waiting for this day. Only in the last 300 metres I felt the victory coming. But from the bottom of the climb, I was feeling very good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;When I realised Remco [Evenepoel] was in trouble and Isaac Del Toro wasn&#8217;t up there either. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was a good day for me or if they were waiting for the final. But I tried to do my race. I attacked and I managed to push as hard as possible till the finish. I was hearing that Del Toro was coming back really fast. In the last kilometre, I used all the energy that was remaining in my body and I went full gas till the finish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio Tiberi flew to his first ever WorldTour win on stage three of the UAE Tour on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-483283","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\/483283","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=483283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}