Siena, Italy – Isaac del Toro became the first Mexican cyclist to take the general leadership of Tour D’Italy, but the 21 -year -old was beaten on the line by Wout van Aert in a ninth hard and dusty stage on Sunday that shook the general classification.
Vanert surpassed Del Toro in a Sprint at the end of the 181 -kilometer (112 miles) route from Gubbio to Siena, which included a row mini bianca on the white roads of gravel from the Tuscany.
Giulio Ciccone was third, 58 seconds behind, on a disastrous day to Prior Prior Priorz Roglic for Raca.
The scenario exploded in life in the first two of the five gravel sectors, with the dust and the sand kicked by the cyclists, and the race cars, turning everywhere.
The majority of the six separatist corridors from the first half of the stage were trapped in the first sector, with the rest swept in the second, where Roglic was caught in an accident.
All those involved returned quickly, but there was an additional disaster for Roglic shortly after, since he had a puncture and had to change his bicycle.
In the front, from the bull and Van Aert attacked from a small group in the final sector, with about 15 kilometers remaining, and it seemed that the Mexican young man was heading to the greatest victory of his career before Vano accompanied him about 500 meters from the line.
Del Toro has a general advantage of 1 minute, 13 seconds over the teammate of the Eau Emirates XRG Juan Ayuso, with Antonio Tiberi 17 seconds further back.
Roglic, who had been third in general, fell to the tenth, 2:25 behind the bull.
On Monday he sees the second day of rest of the race before an individual counterreloj of 28.6 kilometers from Lucca to Pisa
The turn ends in Rome June 1.
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