UAE Emirates-XRG on top as Primož Roglič falters - the winners and losers of the Giro d’Italia first week

Roglič and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe left with work to do as UAE dominate the top ten in the general classification

Primoz Roglic
(Image credit: Getty Images)

When the Giro d’Italia route was announced earlier this year, the consensus amongst the peloton was clear: the gravel stage at the end of the opening week could be decisive. The white roads of Tuscany, synonymous with Strade Bianche, could either make or break a GC rider’s bid for victory; crashes, mechanicals and other mishaps were all seen as a certainty beforehand.

The central danger that the stage posed was its unpredictability; Pello Bilbao told Cycling Weekly that anything could happen. That prediction came to fruition with a reshuffling of the general classification in Siena, with 21-year-old Mexican Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) now top of the pile by more than a minute.

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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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