Canada's Derek Gee 4th to begin final week of Giro d'Italia cycling race

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 27, 2025 12:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Mexican rider Isaac Del Toro conscionable hardly maintained his Giro d'Italia pb during the gruelling 16th signifier Tuesday, erstwhile 2019 champion Richard Carapaz of Ecuador was the large mover successful the wide standings.

Ottawa's Derek Gee, riding for the Israel-Premier Tech team, has improved since Stage 12. He placed 5th connected Tuesday to determination to 4th successful the wide standings successful his 2nd Giro d'Italia aft a breakthrough 2023 show erstwhile Gee was 2nd 4 times and 4th twice.

Gee entered this year's competition aft becoming an wide multi-race signifier champion for the archetypal clip successful his career.

He captured the O Gran Camino roadworthy contention successful Spain connected March 2 for the archetypal wide signifier contention triumph of his career, a 35-second borderline implicit Italy's Davide Piganzoli. Gee finished with 3 top-10 signifier results, including a first, 2nd and 10th. At the seven-stage Tirreno-Adriatico, helium was 4th wide with 2 sixth-place results.

The 27-year-old past led a contention astatine the Criterium du Dauphine past June successful France, spending 1 time successful the yellowish jersey coincided with an idiosyncratic clip trial. He finished 3rd overall.

At the Tour de France, Gee was ninth with 4 top-10 showings, including a 3rd successful Stage 9.

He went connected to decorativeness 44th successful past summer's Olympic roadworthy contention successful Paris and was the apical Canadian successful the idiosyncratic clip trial, placing 20th.

Post-Olympics, Gee was 22nd successful the idiosyncratic clip proceedings astatine the roadworthy satellite championships successful Zurich. He did not decorativeness the roadworthy race.

Meanwhile, erstwhile Carapaz, who besides won golden astatine the 2021 Olympics, attacked connected the finishing ascent successful the Dolomites, Del Toro had nary response.

'I didn't person the champion legs'

Del Toro's pb was reduced to 26 seconds up of British rider Simon Yates and 31 seconds up of Carapaz.

"In extremity I didn't person the champion legs. They weren't atrocious but they weren't sufficient. I was blessed to marque it to the finish," Del Toro said Tuesday. "I anticipation it goes amended the adjacent fewer days."

Del Toro, who was wearing pinkish for the seventh consecutive stage, mislaid astir 2 minutes to Carapaz, who soloed to triumph astatine the extremity of the 11th signifier erstwhile Del Toro became the archetypal Mexican person successful Giro history.

It was a unsmooth time for Del Toro's UAE Team Emirates squad, since Juan Ayuso, who was 3rd overall, was dropped connected the 3rd of 4 climbs.

Pre-race favourite Primoz Roglic, the 2023 champion, abandoned aft crashing connected a slippery roadworthy midway done the stage. He stood 10th wide aft dropping 5 places connected Sunday.

Christian Scaroni became the archetypal Italian rider to triumph a signifier successful this year's contention aft getting into an aboriginal breakaway. He crossed the enactment holding hands with different Italian, Astana teammate Lorenzo Fortunato, but was somewhat ahead.

The 203 km leg from Piazzola Sul Brenta to San Valentino was made much treacherous by rainfall aboriginal on.

The finishing ascent lasted 18.2 km and featured a conception with a 12 per cent gradient successful the finale.

Italian rider Alessio Martinelli was hospitalized aft sliding into a ravine. The VG Group Bardiani-CSF Faizane squad said Martinelli was "conscious and successful unchangeable condition." He was carried up from the ravine connected a stretcher attached to a enactment by an alpine rescue team.

Stage 17 connected Wednesday is simply a 155 km limb from San Michele All'Adige to Bormio featuring 3 climbs, including the Mortirolo, 1 of the Giro's toughest and astir celebrated climbs.

The Giro ends successful Rome connected Sunday.