The rapid rise of Isaac del Toro - Could a 21-year-old from Mexico challenge at the Giro d'Italia?

In the Baja California native, UAE Emirates-XRG appear to have found yet another potential Grand Tour contender

Isaac del Toro
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Things couldn’t possibly be going any better for UAE Team Emirates-XRG. The team's star man - Tadej Pogačar - decimated almost every race he lined up at during the spring and is set to challenge for yet another Tour de France victory in July.

Beyond Pogačar, however, the team now possesses two of cycling's brightest young talents: Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro. The latter currently is in pink and staking a claim for all-out team leadership at the ongoing Giro d’Italia.

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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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