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Ride to redemption
The Guardian
|June 02, 2025
Britain's Yates completes Giro triumph to banish pain of 2018
Simon Yates arrived in Rome yesterday, was blessed by Pope Leo XIV and then completed a miraculous overall victory in the 2025 Giro d'Italia, seven years after his race lead had traumatically dissolved with victory in his grasp.
The Lancastrian rider's remarkable turnaround in Saturday's final mountain stage, in which Yates leapfrogged the 21-year-old Giro debutant and race leader, Isaac del Toro, and podium rival Richard Carapaz to take a near four-minute overall lead, was one of the most stunning in Grand Tour racing.
This was Yates's McIlroy moment, a career catharsis that banished the pain and humiliation he had endured on the Colle delle Finestre in 2018. Seven summers after the monstrous climb cracked his career apart, the mountain that had broken him became the setting of his redemption.
As Yates, of the Visma-Lease a bike team, savoured the closing moments of the 2025 Giro, yesterday's final stage was won by his teammate Olav Kooij, who out-sprinted the Australian Kaden Groves to take their team's third stage win of the race.
This story is from the June 02, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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