The double victory that Maeva Squiban achieved in the sixth and seventh stages of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes has brought joy to the UAE Team ADQ and all of France. The image of the 23-year-old from Brest with her arms raised at the finish line in Chambéry is going around the world, and many have wondered about the meaning of Maeva's celebration gesture.

To explain those hands raised high forming a W with her fingers, we need to take a step back in time and move from France to Italy, more precisely to Brenno, in the province of Lecco. Here, on July 18th, Pietro, Elisa Longo Borghini's grandson, won his first race ever and celebrated exactly like this on the top step of the podium.

During the photo session preparing for the Tour de France Femmes, Aunt Elisa had reproduced the same gesture, hoping to show it at the finish line of some stage, but unfortunately, as is known, the Italian champion was forced to withdraw from the Grande Boucle due to a gastrointestinal virus. So Maeva Squiban ideally "took the baton" from Elisa and celebrated by showing the W. Just like little Pietro.