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The Lidl Deutschland Tour is still live, and stage results beyond day 1 cannot be verified — so the only confirmed headline from this race is del Toro making history before losing the jersey within 24 hours. Isaac del Toro became the first Mexican ever to lead the Deutschland Tour after winning the prologue in Bad Orb, then ceded the lead to Louis Barré on stage 1.
Del Toro clocked 3:08 over the 2.6 km prologue course to beat Paul Magnier and pull on the leader's jersey — a milestone for Mexican cycling. Barré reversed that on stage 1, with del Toro finishing second on the day and dropping to the chase position. Whether del Toro has since recovered the lead — as the topic suggests — was not verifiable from official feeds as of August 22, with the race running through August 23.
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