Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 10 updates, route and results today

A digression, for a moment, from events in Italy to instead cover a spot of news from France, with Tour organisers confirming last week that this year’s final stage of the race will feature a trip to Montmartre – after the brilliant scenes on the climb at Paris 2024, a return is welcome, though not all are happy…

Primoz Roglic took about 17 seconds out of both Juan Ayuso and Isaac Del Toro on the first time trial in Tirana, though that route was about half the distance of that over which they’ll be pedalling today. He’d love to steal back a big chunk of the deficit lost on the white roads around Siena on Sunday.

This really is a lovely little TT, beginning along the beautifully preserved city walls around charming Lucca.

Down the ramp heads Alexander Krieger of Tudor, the first man out on the course and confronted by drying roads. The first of the possible contenders out is Edoardo Affini in about half-an-hour – and with the forecast suggesting rain later, it may favour the Italian and Josh Tarling, who will be underway at 1.36pm BST.

Race leader Isaac Del Toro has been out and about training, looking pretty in pink – the uber-talented Mexican begins at 3.40pm.

Yes, it’s slightly damp and dreary in Tuscany for what should be a picturesque journey from one of Italy’s great cities to one of its most famous landmarks. There’s nothing really lumpy in the route to overly bother the field, though the rain will make things tricky.

Some images from Italy seem to show Primoz Roglic on the deck after a crash in time-trial reconnaissance this morning – another mishap for the accident-prone Slovene, who really is due some luck.

Primoz Roglic had a terrible day on Sunday, crashing with 51km to go and shedding time, before a puncture shortly after killed off any chances of making it back into the lead group.

He was also left exposed, with Giulio Pellizzari the only teammate who could drop back and work with him, and the Slovenian was forced to expend a lot of energy himself when Pellizzari dropped off.

The rest of Roglic’s Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team haven’t looked strong enough so far to protect him and control the race, letting a massive breakaway go on stage eight, and they don’t have the strength in numbers to deal with an assault by UAE, who have multiple cards to play with four riders above Roglic in the overall standings. It looks like he’ll have to do it the hard way if he wants to win this Giro, which he undoubtedly does.

Roglic has had his fair share of bad luck and crashes over the years but is also one of the sport’s grittiest competitors. 2’25” is a bad deficit to have to recover, but he has the benefit of experience compared to the likes of Ayuso and del Toro, and there’s still a long way to go. While it’ll be a tough ask, don’t write the Slovenian off yet.

An interesting subplot developing in this Giro is who rules the roost in UAE Team Emirates-XRG. Juan Ayuso and Adam Yates were in theory co-leaders going into the race, with Ayuso the best-placed rider until stage nine and Yates often seen working as a domestique.

But stage nine threw all that into chaos as Isaac del Toro rode into the overall lead. He now sits 1’13” clear of Ayuso, with another two teammates – Yates and Brandon McNulty – also in the top 10.

UAE are the best-represented team in the top 10 and in fact the only team with more than one rider, so they have multiple cards to play.

But will it descend into infighting? Ayuso has made it clear in the past that he wants his share of the limelight – but it would make no sense to attack a teammate now with del Toro leading the race. The Mexican is young and inexperienced, in only his second pro season, and mounting a full GC challenge would be quite a step up.

They have the advantage of numbers over Primoz Roglic, who has by far a weaker team, but Red Bull have a definite leader and face no risk of infighting. So what do UAE do?

1) Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) in 33:36:45

2) Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +1’13”

8) Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +1’59”

9) Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +2’01”

The Giro d’Italia general classification standings shuffled again on stage nine as race favourite Primoz Roglic slipped seven places to 10th overall, while his major rival Juan Ayuso gained more than a minute on the Slovenian.

In the other classifications, Mads Pedersen has an iron grip on the points classification, while Lorenzo Fortunato still leads the KOM standings.

Del Toro moved into both the pink and white jerseys on stage nine (the latter as best young rider) but his teammate and theoretical team leader, Ayuso, will wear white today on his behalf.

Let’s take a quick look at the previous time trial, on stage two…

British 21-year-old Josh Tarling delivered a career-high victory on stage two of the Giro d’Italia, winning the individual time-trial by one second from overall favourite Primoz Roglic.

Tarling spent an hour in the hot seat watching as others tried and failed to knock the Ineos Grenadiers rider off top spot. Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) just missed out but earned the consolation of the pink jersey after taking the overall race lead from stage-one winner Mads Pedersen (Lidl–Trek) by one second.

Australian Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) came third on the stage, three seconds behind Tarling on the short 13.7km route in Tirana, Albania.