Giro d'Italia: Isaac Del Toro shines on the dirt roads, first Mexican in pink

Welcome Giro: after nine days of racing, finally a stage. And what a stage: the feared challenge on the dirt roads does not betray, it is a spectacle. We also have yet another baby phenomenon, intuited so far: in the dust of the Siena dirt roads, Isaac Del Toro reveals itself in all its splendor. Twenty-one years old, winner of a youth Tour, he is the first Mexican to dye himself pink: it has all the air of not being a point of arrival, but of departure.

The Giro takes off, thanks to a young boy who, when he gets the green light, tears to shreds a race where courage and strength go hand in hand with bad luck: Del Toro just needs to have no setbacks to prove he is a bigger size. Compared to his favorite teammate Ayuso, less ready than him at the moment of attack due to a fall, to winners of tours like Bernal and Carapaz, but above all to Roglic, the most targeted by luck: his fall 51 kilometers from Siena, followed by a puncture, makes the stage explode.

Del Toro unleashed, impressive for his voracity and personality, inevitably master of a standings where Ayuso is behind: the Giro in the hands of a couple of kids. The time trial tomorrow in Pisa will begin to tell what the strong card of the Uae is, after the rest, in the meantime those two are there and the others are chasing. "Rome is far away, in the meantime I'm enjoying a dream for me and my country. I wanted to win the stage, but on a day like this I can't say I'm disappointed", says the Mexican, who to those who ask if he will have to clarify with Ayuso, hypothesizing the start of an internal rivalry, replies: "We are friends, why ever?".

On the day that consecrates Del Toro, many important news arrive. One is the expected Wout Van Aert, author of two feats: resisting the fury of the Mexican and beating him at the finish line, removing the label of successful loser. It's nice that it happens where he won the Strade Bianche, it's nice that it happens in front of his family, it's also nice the homage of the Belgian to the kid who took him for a walk: "Hats off, I gave my soul to keep up with him".

The other news is the Italian boys: Tiberi is already breathing the air of the podium after a perfect performance, Ciccone is still at high altitude, Pellizzari who escorts the bruised Roglic confirms himself as tomorrow's champion.

Order of arrival 9th ​​stage Gubbio-Siena: 1) Wout Van Aert (Bel, Visma) 181 km in 4h 15'08'' (average 42,566), 2) Del Toro (Mex) st, 3) Ciccone at 58'', 4) Carapaz (Ecu) st, 5) S. Yates (Gbr) at 1', 6) Tiberi st, 7) Ayuso (Spa) at 1'07'', 9) Bernal (Col) st, 19) Roglic (Slo) at 2'22'', 42) Ulissi at 5'10''.

Ranking: 1) Isaac Del Toro (Mex, Uae) in 33h 36'45'', 2) Ayuso (Spa) at 1'13'', 3) Tiberi at 1'30'', 4) Carapaz (Ecu) at 1'40'', 5) Ciccone at 1'41'', 6) S. Yates (Gbr) at 1'42'', 7) Bernal (Col) at 1'57'', 10) Roglic (Slo) at 2'25''.