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Richard Carapaz finishes the Giro d’Italia on the podium in Rome

EF Education-EasyPost celebrates superb Italian grand tour

June 1, 2025

This evening, Richard Carapaz and his EF Education-EasyPost teammates rode into Rome to celebrate their tremendous Giro d’Italia.

As the sun set over The Eternal City, Richie waved to the crowds from the third step of the podium. He is proud of the way that our team rode this Giro.

Thank you, Richie. Thank you Kasper Asgreen, Mikkel Honoré, James Shaw, Owain Doull, Alexander Cepeda, Georg Steinhauser, and Darren Rafferty. You raced to win and kept our maglia rosa dream alive for the past three weeks. Richie’s stage 11 victory and Kasper’s win on stage 14 were unforgettable rewards for the courage, team spirit, and grit that you each showed from the grand partenza in Albania all the way to tonight’s final stage in Rome.

Your success in this Giro was founded on the hard work that you put into preparing for this race long months before its start. Your grinta paid off. Over the past three weeks, you showed that we are a team that can take on any team in the world and race for grand tour GCs.

Tomorrow, the sun will rise again over Rome and we will resume the work that has brought us here. Tonight, we’re going to celebrate this Giro and just how far we have come over the past month in Italy.

Read our team’s thoughts from the finish of the 2025 Giro d’Italia in Rome.

Richard Carapaz

We are very happy. The team should be very proud of themselves. We all showed the right attitude from day one. We knew the objective and tried every day. The plan was to win the Giro and we never gave up. I think the team gave it their all and made a spectacle for the fans. Our attacking way of riding was nice for them to see for sure.

The circumstances of the race were what they were. We all played the same game, the game of trying to win, and only one could win. We went all in for it and it ended how it ended. For me, a third place is a reward for all the hard work we put in to be on the podium, so I think we can all be very happy.

Kasper Asgreen

My first Giro has been really, really nice. Coming here and taking a stage win in my very first Giro is something I will definitely remember forever. Experiencing different parts of Italy that I hadn’t seen before and seeing the Italian tifosi support their biggest race was special. It has just been super fun throughout.

Mikkel Honoré

 I think we can be really proud of ourselves and how we rode as a team for the whole Giro, from day one till today. Obviously, somewhere inside, we are still a bit disappointed to not be able to go home with the pink jersey, but that's racing. We gave everything we could until the end and we can be proud of that.

James Shaw

 It's been a rollercoaster of emotions. It was my first Giro this year, but I've done all the other grand tours. I've ticked them all off now, and this is certainly the best of the three from a racing point of view. Other ones have their specialist areas. Others are better in other ways, but the actual race here — this takes some beating.

The day Richie won was a highlight, and then the day Kasper won too. But the day Richie went on that mad one and took a handful of seconds — I think at that point we realized, okay, something is going to happen here. Everything is a question mark before you start. Are we really going to be good enough? Other teams might not have that, not fear, but question. But, at that point,  we didn't have that question anymore. It was like, ok, we're all in now. We're all on the same page. We're all ready for the same thing now. I think that was a real landmark in the race for us to say, from here on, this is it.

Owain Doull

From the moment we got to Albania, the plan was always to do the GC as best as possible with Richie. The group is quite similar to what we had in the Vuelta last year when Richie was fourth, and I know there was a feeling there that the momentum was building and he was getting back to his best level, especially for racing for GC.

It has just been an amazing three weeks. Obviously, the highlights were Richie’s stage win, and then Kasper’s stage win as well. To have Richie on the podium is also pretty amazing. I think before the race, we probably would've signed for that. Obviously, with how stage 20 panned out and to be so close after three weeks of hard work as a team is a little bit bittersweet, especially when I think that Richie was the strongest guy in the race. But to be part of that stage 20, something which will go down in history, is also pretty cool.

As a group, I think we performed really, really well. Some days, guys would have good days and bad days, but if someone was on a bad day, someone would always step up and fill that hole and cover where we needed it. As a collective, it's been really good. Everyone was super unified from the start.

Alexander Cepeda

It was a nice Giro, working for the team. It was great to feel how everyone was going for the same objective, how united we all were, and the joy. Even though we did not get what we came for, we all enjoyed the way to Rome, and I am very proud to have been here to help my team and to be part of this.

Georg Steinhauser

We had a nice race with Richie. For me, it was super cool to support him and see how he behaves on and off the bike. That was super special to see and I am super proud of the way we rode in the end. We didn't get the win. That's still okay. We gave it our all. We gave it our best. And today, we can enjoy Rome.

The moment that stands out the most was the day Richie won. That was super special, just the feeling we all had together. It was Honoré, Richie, and me. We just ruled it, and then Richie went for it, and it worked out. That was a super cool experience.

Darren Rafferty

It was a special journey from Albania to Rome and pretty incredible to finish up with a full team and Richie on the podium. We’re going to enjoy Rome today and then a few days off the bike. I learned how hard the third week of the Giro is. I think I learned how to suffer more than I've suffered any other race. It was a big one.

Juanma Gárate, EF Education-EasyPost sport director

 The atmosphere in the team, the belief they had — I think this race proved to them that they can do it. They can do it. They are not less than anybody else. That is basically the message for them to take from this Giro. It is such a nice group of riders. I am pretty proud of them.

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