The catwalk in the splendid setting of the capital sees also on the podium of the Toro and Carapaz climbing the podium
The Dutch Olav Kooij and the English Simon Yates Imperiali in Rome in the last stage that closed the Giro d’Italia number 108. And once again Wout Van Aert is decisive: the Flemish had led Yates on Saturday on the company on the hill of the windows and today 450 meters from the finish, after a great work of the Mantovano Affini, the rectilinear of 5% of the riding and the Kooij the second success in the sprint of this edition. The Dutch of the Vistma-Leaase in Bike, 23 years old, had already imposed himself in viadana and in 2024 in Naples: he preceded the Australian Kaden Groves and Matteo Moschetti. For Dutch formation it is the third success at Giro 2025 after the brace at the Sprint of Kooj and the triumph of Van Aert in the stage of the Siena dirt road. The Englishman Simon Yates, 32, becomes the British third after Froome 2018 and Geoghegan Hart 2020 to enroll his name in the Giro Golden Register: 69 Italian successes and 39 foreigners. In the general classification precedes the Mexican Isaac del Toro (UAE Emirates) of 3’56 “and the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (EF EasyPost) of 4’43”; Then the Canadian Gee at 6’23 “and two Italians, Damiano Caruso, fifth at 7’32” at 37 years old, and Giulio Pellizzari, sixth at 9’28 “at 21 years old. It was from 2017 (Nibali third and Pozzovivo Sesto) that two blues did not enter the first six of the general. Italy closes with a single stage success, Christian Scaroni on the Valentine’s day, Rosa with Diego Ulissi in Castelraimondo.
Grand finale
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A final consideration on the conclusion in Rome. There is no better scenario worldwide than what the capital for the final stage of a large lap has offered today. We believe that the circuit that closed the Giro d’Italia 108, with the arrival at 5% alongside the Circus Maximus at the height of the wonderful municipal roseto, was the highest point touched in all arrivals in the capital (it was the seventh from 1911, then 1950, 2009 and from 2023 to today). And not only for the uniqueness of the passage in the Vatican city and the meeting with Leo XIV, which will remain in the history of the pink race like the other Popes Pius XII, Paul VI and John Paul II, who in different eras welcomed and blessed the caravan. Hundreds of thousands of fans and enthusiasts, tourists who crowd the Colosseum who became passionate about the barriers, imperial and historical Rome, under a summer sun. He left us breathless. Rome Caput Giro.