'Savage' Colle delle Finestre will decide who wins the Giro d'Italia - Isaac del Toro or Richard Carapaz

Race finely poised ahead of showdown on final climb in the Italian Alps

Richard Carapaz
(Image credit: Getty Images)

After a minor GC skirmish came to little on stage 19, the final mountain stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia, featuring the "savage" Colle delle Finestre climb, looks set to decide who takes home the pink jersey on Sunday in Rome.

The race is finely poised going into the final weekend, with 21-year-old Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) top of the pile in the general classification. Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) is second, 43 seconds down on the Mexican, while Britain's Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) is in third, 1:21 down on the UAE Emirates rider.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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