Only three stages remain until the end of the Giro d'Italia and Isaac Del Toro continues to hold the pink leader's jersey. However, there will be two difficult stages and UAE Emirates saw Ayuso withdraw yesterday due to a hornet sting in the eye. An important loss for the team, as the Spaniard would have been an excellent help for the Mexican in the most difficult and decisive points of the race. "I see it as a great loss because he is a very important person for the team. We will try to do our best as a team, as we have always done," explained the young Mexican rider.

Today and tomorrow there will be many climbs and the general classification could completely turn upside down. "I don't know what to say, today will be a tough day, but certainly I will try to stay up front and remain with the general classification riders. I don't know how the situation will be, I can't predict the future, but obviously we will more or less have everything under control".

In the classification, the gaps are not wide: Carapaz is at 41", Yates at 51". "Perhaps Carapaz, Bernal or others will attack soon and try to put me in difficulty, I don't know, we'll see. Of course, they will want to try, they will try every time they can and I hope to be mentally and physically ready. To be honest, I can't say which will be the hardest day, but obviously I don't want to suffer much and if I have to suffer, I want to do it only for a good reason. Much will depend on what the other teams will do".

Isaac Del Toro knows Giulio Bellizzari very well, because they were together on the final podium of the Tour de l'Avenir, and they also live in the same building in San Marino. "With Giulio we are friends. He is a great rider, I know him and he is my friend. We never train together because when I'm home, he's not there and when he's home, I'm not there. But he is a good guy, it's nice to spend some racing days together, we joke a lot on the bike. He is a great rider, a great person and one day he will be better than me and that's totally normal. That's how life goes, but we will remain friends and there will be no problem with what the race result will be".