Tour de France 2025, the fasting of stages won (and of yellow shirts worn) for Italy has lasted for almost six years

Tomorrow the Tour de France 2025 And the hope is that even Italian runners can. Consequently, carve out a role as protagonists. Similarly, Unfortunately. the latest editions of the Grande Boucle did not smile at the blue colors much, which unfortunately amazes up to a certain point given the crisis that has been going through local cycling for some years now and considering that, compared to Giro d’Italia and Vuelta in España (where some satisfaction we have instead managed to remove it), in the transalpine GT all the greatest champions, who often do in the course of the three weeks, race.

The only smile gave it in 2023 Giulio Cicconecapable of taking home the polka dot shirt in that year. but tour de france 2025, fasting neither the Abruzzese nor the other Italian runners who in the last editions took part in the tour have managed to win a stage. To find the last blue capable of crossing a goal of the day first you have to return to the July 27. 2019when Vincenzo Nibali He imposed himself in Val Thorens, in the twentieth fraction of that great Boucle then won by Egan Bernal. Since then, they have passed well 106 stages without an Italian victory.

A little longer. however, the period of time without an Italian in yellow jersey: in fact, it is always necessary to return to 2019, precisely to July 13thwhen at the end of fraction number 8 the aforementioned Ciccone had to give up Julian Alaphilippe the symbol of the primacy conquered two days before at La Planche des Belles Filles. From that moment, they have passed well 119 stages And still tour de france 2025, fasting no blue runner has returned to dressing yellow.

Instead. we must go back more than a decade to find the last Italian capable of climbing on one of the three steps of the Paris final podium; Obviously these are Nibali, who conquered the final success in the 2014 edition, on a tour dominated almost from start to finish. If to interrupt the latter fasting it will probably still take a long time. for the end of the other two they could actually serve less than 24 hours: “It would be enough” that one of Jonathan Milan, Simone Consonni, Filippo Ganna, Alberto Dainese, Matteo Trentin, Vincenzo Albanese, Davide Ballerini, Simon Velasco, Edoardo Affini, Mattia Cattaneo e Gianni Moscon He first crossed Lille’s goal tomorrow …