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Simon Yates wins Giro d’Italia 2025: final stage goes to Kooij

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It’s a historic day for Visma Lease a Bike, which concludes the Giro d’Italia 2025 in triumph with a double success: Simon Yates conquers the final Maglia Rosa and Olav Kooij wins the final sprint in the heart of Rome, in front of the Colosseum. After the partial victories in Siena with Van Aert and in Viadana with the same Kooij, the Dutch team also imposes itself in the Eternal City, closing an unforgettable edition.

Yates’ overall triumph was already mathematical after Saturday’s queen stage on the Colle delle Finestre. The Brit dominated the Giro with intelligence and regularity, leaving behind Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates), second at 3’56”, and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), third at 4’43”. A result that crowns an edition of the pink race full of excitement and twists and turns.

The final stage, on a city circuit in Rome, saw a six-man breakaway attempt the feat, with Cerny (Soudal Quick Step) last to hold on before rejoining with 5.8 km to go. From there the battle for the sprint began: Groves’ Alpecin Deceuninck tried to get ahead, but Visma Lease a Bike built a perfect train. Affini and van Aert launched an impregnable Kooij, who set Kaden Groves and Matteo Moschetti in a sprint, with Mads Pedersen just off the podium.

The passage of the riders through the Vatican before the official start was also evocative, with a special greeting from Pope Leo XIV, in a stage symbolically dedicated to Pope Francis.

The Giro d’Italia 2025 thus closes in the sign of Simon Yates and his team, the absolute protagonists of a race that, between mountains, sprints and heart, offered spectacle until the last meter.

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Tudor or a new coach? Juventus has made up its mind

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Juventus is about to dissolve the coaching issue ahead of next season: according to the latest rumors, Igor Tudor is getting closer and closer to staying on the Bianconeri bench for the next championship as well.

The Croatian coach, working with the team after the week off (Juve is preparing for the World Club Championship), met with the new Juventus general manager, Damien Comolli, on Wednesday afternoon.

The interview, strictly cognitive, reportedly went very well. The coach received reassurances from the management and will be on the bench for the Club World Cup: the very performance of the team during the tournament in the United States could definitively armor his bench.

The team’s performance during the tournament in the United States could definitively armor his bench.

The team has sided with him, and Tudor is hoping for a contract renewal expiring in 2026. After the failure of the’assault on Antonio Conte, and the divorce with Cristiano Giuntoli, Juve wants to turn the page for good and forget about a season that was decidedly below expectations.

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Jannik Sinner: ironic message from Bublik after the knockout

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It was not an easy afternoon for Alexander Bublik, defeated in three sets at Roland Garros by world number one Jannik Sinner with the scores of 6-1, 7-5, 6-0. The Kazakh tennis player was unable to counter the strength of the Blue, who has qualified for the semifinals of the Paris tournament without losing a set so far.

Bublik had a real moment of crisis in the first set: down 5-0, he exulted when he managed to snatch the first game from the South Tyrolean, taking the applause of the audience and celebrating it almost as a victory.

In the second Bublik fully entered the match but succumbed 7-5, while in the third really came the bagel (6-0) that sealed the deal. After the match, the Kazakh player joked by commenting on his Instagram profile: “I almost got him guys” (“I almost got him guys”) which sparked the’hilarity of tennis fans.

Bublik and Sinner have a good relationship, and the Kazakh tennis player was among the first rivals to recognize the Azure’s great talent, calling him “not human” when he was 19 years old.

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Jannik Sinner will watch (little) Novak Djokovic

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Jannik Sinner commented on his victory over Alexander Bublik at Roland Garros with satisfaction: “We have played against before, something I knew about him but you can never know everything. He deserved the quarters, he eliminated great players and I tried to focus on me and keep my level of play” continuous.

The Blue promoted himself: “A good performance, I played well in the decisive moments, it was a good performance also because the wind could have complicated the day. I work on the’balance, against similar players you don&#8217t have to make so many mistakes because there are few exchanges”.

Sinner explained that he will watch the’other quarterfinal between Djokovic and Zverev, but only partially: “I hope it will be a great match. I will definitely watch a piece of it, but I also want to unplug”.

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