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Yates Snatches Pink Jersey From Del Toro
- Simon Yates took the overall lead and the pink jersey of the Giro d'Italia on Saturday, May 31, 2025, during the penultimate mountain stage from Biella to Champoluc.
- Yates overcame an 81-second deficit to Isaac Del Toro after launching a solo attack on the 18 km, 9.2% average gradient Colle delle Finestre climb, where the final third is gravel.
- He rode clear of rivals Del Toro and Richard Carapaz over more than 40 km of the 205 km stage, ultimately opening a lead of nearly four minutes by the summit above the snow line.
- Yates now leads Del Toro by 3 minutes 56 seconds, with Carapaz 47 seconds further behind, setting him up to potentially secure his second Grand Tour victory in Rome on Sunday’s flat final stage.
- This decisive performance allowed Yates to redeem his 2018 Giro disappointment on the same climb and shifted the general classification in his favor just before the race’s conclusion.
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With a tactical feat on the last mountain stage, 32-year-old Briton Simon Yates left the Maglia Pink to win the Italy Tour to the significantly younger competitor Isaac Del Toro.
In northern Italy, in the mountain range of the Alps, a murmur is heard that travels to the back of the wind. It is the story of two episodes that from today are already legendary. In that rocky massif adorned with bucolic forests, stands the Colle delle Finestre, scene of two epics that reached the category of myths in cycling. Right there, in 2018, Simon Yates, a British man who carried the pink maglia of leader and who was therefore the most …
Yates snatches pink jersey from Del Toro
Simon Yates rode a stage for the ages when he stormed into the overall lead of the Giro d'Italia on Saturday as the Visma-Lease a Bike rider erased overall leader Isaac Del Toro's lead to take the pink jersey on the penultimate stage of the race. The stage was won by Australian Chris Harper of Jayco-AlUla, who was part of a 31-rider breakaway before he rode solo to the finish to claim a first Grand Tour stage win, while Alessandro Verre was seco…
With a fabulous climbing show at the legendary Colle delle Finestre Simon Yates takes the lead of the 108th Giro d'Italia and has the overall victory almost safely. The Brit attacked the famous gravel mountain about 39 kilometers before the finish decisively.
In 2018, Simon Yates was regarded as a sure winner of the Giro d'Italia and then brutally broke into the Colle delle Finestre. Seven years later, he took the pink jersey on the same mountain and crowned his career.
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