Rob Sturney

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Tenacious Gee achieves a first for a Canadian Grand Tour rider

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Ryder Hesjedal might still be the king of Canadian Grand Tour riders with a Giro d’Italia title and three other Grand Tour top-10’s. Derek Gee’s directeur sportif Steve Bauer might have one more Grand Tour top-10 than his Israel-Premier Tech charge. But at the 2025 Giro d’Italia, Gee accomplished a first: he’s the only Canadian to place in the top-10 of consecutive Grand Tours. Gee followed up his ninth in last year’s Tour de France with fourth in the 108th Giro.
Simon Yates seizes the pink jersey on Giro's final GC day with incredible ride

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Seven years ago in the Giro d’Italia, after leading the race for 13 days with three stages wins, Simon Yates imploded on Stage 19, sliding down to 18th on GC and ultimately finishing 21st. The Brit said he had “unfinished business” with the Giro, but in four more attempts, the best he could do was third, DNFing twice. On Saturday, Simon Yates attacked on Finestre, the penultimate climb of the 108th edition, and flew to glory, jumping up from third place into the pink jersey.
Dramatic finish to an epic day in the mountains at the Giro d'Italia

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Friday’s first of two crucial mountains days in the Giro d’Italia was packed with drama and leg-breaking climbs. French rider Nicolas Prudhomme took a big win, with a battle behind raging for GC. Derek Gee finished just outside the top-10, and remains within striking distance of the podium, but is running out of stages to make any time back. The GC situation heading into FridayDel Toro slightly increased his lead on Wednesday, while Richard Carapaz jumped over Simon Yates into second.
Giro GC riders take a day off before mountain skirmishing resumes

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

After three days of GC guys throwing haymakers, Thursday’s 18th stage of the Giro d’Italia belonged to a colossal breakaway in which the best-placed rider was 22nd. Having claimed two stages in the 2023 edition from breakaways, Nico Denz collected his career hat trick of wins with a 19-km solo attack. Isaac del Toro kept safe in the pink jersey. The CourseThere was a trio of categorized climbs in the middle of the 144 km from Morbegno to Cesano Maderno, but the final 45 km were flat.
Pink jersey del Toro makes powerful statement with Giro stage victory

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

He looked fragile on Tuesday, but on Wednesday, pink jersey Isaac del Toro made a strong statement by becoming the second Mexican to earn a Giro stage victory and extending his GC lead. Richard Carapaz jumped over Simon Yates into second place overall. Derek Gee came sixth and kept fourth place on GC. The CourseThe legendary Passo del Mortirolo distinguished Wednesday’s 17th stage, and a short, steep Cat. 3 peaked 10 km from the finish line in Bormio.
Derek Gee springs up to 4th on wild Giro queen stage in the mountains

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Derek Gee has moved up on GC every day of the 108th Giro d’Italia since Stage 12, and on Stage 16 he bounced up to fourth, one spot from the podium, after earning fifth place on a wild queen stage. Tuesday’s beginning of the Giro’s final week was a humdinger in the mountains, hampered in its first half by rain. Primoz Roglič crashed out and third place Juan Ayuso imploded. The GC favourites conceded the day’s victory, which went to fugitive Christian Scaroni, who headed up an all-Italian podium.
Primoz Roglič crashes out of Giro d'Italia

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

On a nasty day of rain, 2023 Giro d’Italia victor Primoz Roglič crashed out of Tuesday’s 16th stage of the 2025 edition. It was Roglič’s fifth Grand Tour DNF. Even though he wore pink for two stages Primoz Roglič was not on a great Giro. Crashes took their toll, his form wasn’t stellar and he was in 10th place overnight. Brandon McNulty, Michael Storer, Einer Rubio and Adam Yates were stacked up behind him in the GC.
Derek Gee climbs over Primož Roglič into fifth on Giro GC

2 weeks ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

It was a lousy day for Primož Roglič in Sunday’s fifteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia, the Slovenian found out of a Cat. 2 climb. Derek Gee jumped over the 2023 champion into fifth on GC. Carlos Verona soloed away from a late breakaway to earn the biggest win of his career and Lidl-Trek’s sixth victory of the 108th edition. Mexican sensation Isaac del Toro retained the pink jersey before the last rest day.
Crash mayhem in Slovenian Giro stage shakes up the GC

2 weeks ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

A crash with 22 km to race caused delay chaos in Saturday’s Giro d’Italia stage, with a big GC shake up that saw top-10 riders Juan Ayuso, Antonio Tiberi and Primož Roglič and Egan Bernal lose time to young Mexican Isaac del Toro. The breakaway prevailed, with Kasper Asgreen getting EF Education-EasyPost its second triumph of the 108th edition. Derek Gee avoided the mayhem, finished seventh in a group with del Toro and climbed to 6th in the GC.
Pedersen and van Aert go head to head for Giro Stage 13 victory

2 weeks ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

It was the Giro d’Italia’s lucky 13th stage for Mads Pedersen, the Dane earning his fourth stage win of the 108th edition in Vincenza, beating Wout van Aert in a tough uphill sprint. Isaac del Toro came in third to pad his lead at the top of the GC. Derek Gee’s eighth spot was his best stage result of the Giro so far, his second top-10 result in three days moving him into the GC top 10.