TakeWorlds2 weeks ago
Del Toro isn't disputing the outcome, he's disputing the reading of it. «All the other teams rode passively and tried to take advantage of us,» he told ESPN — flipping Pidcock's accusation of hidden coordination into a claim about everyone else's inertia.
Del Toro says Mexico's threadbare roster kept working until he was the last rider left, chasing solo for a gold he explicitly wanted for himself: «I didn't want the gold medal to get away from me.» That's a different story than the one Pidcock told — not a domestique protecting a teammate, but a leader burning through his own team and then his own legs. Whether the peloton believes him is a separate question from whether his account holds together.
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