Simon Yates raced his 2018 Giro in the aggressive way Del Toro began his stint in pink, before cracking spectacularly with the finish line in sight, losing 38 minutes on the Finestre as he watched ...

Isaac del Toro held the race lead going into the Colle delle Finestre but crossed the finish line in Sestriere 45km later, almost four minutes off Simon Yates, following a stalemate between the ...

Adam Yates rode this Giro for UAE Team Emirates as a support rider for Del Toro — so was competing against his brother. But the brothers posed arm-in-arm for photos together during the final stage.

To some degree part of Yates’s second grand tour win – which puts him second in the rankings for British men, only behind Froome’s monumental seven – was down to Del Toro and Richard ...

Yates, who rides for Team Visma Lease a Bike, finished 3 minutes, 56 seconds ahead of Del Toro and 4:43 ahead of Richard Carapaz, the 2019 champion from Ecuador.

Adam Yates rode this Giro for UAE Team Emirates as a support rider for Del Toro — so was competing against his brother. But the brothers posed arm-in-arm for photos together during the final stage.

Yates and his twin brother, Adam, have long been among the peloton’s elite. Adam Yates rode this Giro for UAE Team Emirates as a support rider for Del Toro — so was competing against his brother.