Cycling - Giro d'Italia 2025 - Isaac Del Toro : "Juan Ayuso's abandon ? It's a big loss for me, but I think we will be ok" - Vidéo Dailymotion

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Isaac Del Toro press conference after Stage 18, where Juan Ayuso left the race.  Video : @giroditalia  « Le vélo, partout & toujours ici » sur https://www.cyclismactu.net / Cyclism'Actu

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00:0010 days in the Malia Rosa. Are you getting used to it?

00:07Yeah, a little bit. Not like every day, but a little bit.

00:12Today, when the breakaway went, your team was setting the pace of the peloton.

00:17Were you trying to chase or just controlling?

00:20No, control a little bit the situation and manage to the first decent.

00:24Have you race today thinking of the coming two stages, trying to save energy,

00:29even if it was hot today?

00:31Yeah, like everybody else, we tried just to arrive in the finish line at the end

00:35because the breakaway was quite big and then there was no sense to push in the back.

00:40And yeah, we arrived with all the other teams behind.

00:44What do you know about the coming two stages? What do you hope for?

00:48The next two? What?

00:51Yeah, the next two stages.

00:53I hope to be in the front and have my best legs ever.

00:57We will see how we come these two stages. For sure, I want to be there.

01:11Isaac, about the loss of Juan, obviously for him was not possible to continue after the B.

01:19How big is this loss for you?

01:22Ah, personally, it's big because the person like we want in the team know is a great guy

01:29and at the end is not the best.

01:32It has one less with Jay and him there too.

01:35And yeah, we will manage the situation with the team, but of course it's not nice to lose one rider.

01:41But I think we're going to be okay and we will try to do our best as a team.

01:47And for sure we will do like nothing happens and we work for it at the end.

01:53Premier.

01:54I think tomorrow and maybe even the day after, what's the best scenario for you?

02:00Control with the team?

02:02I don't know what can I say.

02:05It's a hard day, but for sure just to be in the front for me is okay.

02:11We don't need to control or control.

02:14I don't know how the situation will be.

02:16I cannot predict the future.

02:18But of course, if I can be with the GC riders and more or less everything in control for the team,

02:24I will be happier enough.

02:26Premier.

02:28Press room.

02:33Very good.

02:35Ciao Isaac.

02:36What do you expect from your rivals for tomorrow?

02:39Maybe Carapaz, Bernal or some of the others will attack early and try to create some difficulties for you

02:46or do you think they're going to wait till the last climb?

02:51I don't know.

02:52We will see.

02:53Of course, they want to try.

02:54They try every time they can.

02:57And for sure, I hope to be there.

02:59I hope to be mentally ready and also physically.

03:02And we will see how the next day is the part.

03:05But to be honest, I hope they try in every climb.

03:09I will be no surprise.

03:11But for sure, in the end, it's more important.

03:13Rest room.

03:15That will be the most difficult, the tomorrow stage with five climbs or the Colle delle Finestre with the sterrato part.

03:26What do you think would be the most dangerous for you?

03:28And if you think that there will be a point where you can attack to gain more tomorrow for the stage that come?

03:36I don't know, to be honest, which one it will be the hardest day so far.

03:43But of course, I want to don't suffer a lot or if I suffer, I just want to do it with sense.

03:49And yeah, for sure, we wait two big days and nothing.

03:56I just want to be up there.

03:58And I don't know in which one I will suffer more, but it depends on the race.

04:02It's not, I don't think it's not the stage.

04:05It's how the teams will play more the difficult about the stage, to be honest.

04:11Premier.

04:12Very quickly.

04:13I have a question about Giulio Bellizzari.

04:16You were together with him on the podium, on the final podium of Tour de l'Avenir.

04:21If I'm not wrong, you also live in the same buildings in San Marino.

04:25Do you have also relationships with him outside the bike or not?

04:29You are friends or not?

04:31I mean, we are friends.

04:34But that's what you mean with a relationship.

04:37No, the fact that, no, yes.

04:40The question is, are you impressed by the fact that he has more or less your same age?

04:44No, no.

04:45And he also can be a contender in the final podium of Tour de l'Avenir.

04:48Yeah, yeah.

04:49I'm not surprised.

04:50He's a great rider.

04:51I know him.

04:52He's my friend.

04:53We never train together because when I'm at home, he's not at home.

04:56And when he's at home, I'm not at home.

04:58But no, it's just a nice guy.

05:00It's nice to have some days of racing together.

05:02We joke a lot and we play a lot on the bike and that's it.

05:07I respect him.

05:08Sometimes I just knock the door and I say hi and he also and that's it.

05:14He's a cool guy in the peloton that I know from years and it's nice to see from your faces.

05:19It can be also a great rivalry potentially for the future of cycling, no?

05:23Of course.

05:24He's a great rider, a great person.

05:28And one day he will be better than me and he's completely normal.

05:33And one day I will be better than him and it's completely normal.

05:36His life and it's okay like this.

05:38We will be friends anyway.

05:42No problem in the result of the race.

05:45Final question from the press room.

05:49Ciao, Isaac.

05:50Do you feel the pressure?

05:55Yeah, a little bit, but just enough.

05:58Enough by myself and but to be honest, as a team, as a press conference, not that much.

06:04It's just when I come to the interviews that I spend more time.

06:08But that's it.

06:09Thank you, Isaac.

06:11Congratulations.

06:12Thank you, Isaac.

06:13Thank you, Isaac.

Cycling - Giro d'Italia 2025 - Isaac Del Toro : "Juan Ayuso's abandon ? It's a big loss for me, but I think we will be ok"

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