He has always cycled, because he has always loved cycling a lot. Yet the "infinite love" for the Giro had ended. Now Milan's mayor, Giuseppe Sala, seems ready to backtrack and announces that there will soon be some news. Milan will return to being central in the "pink race" story, as well as the Milan-Sanremo. "Why doesn't the Giro d'Italia pass through Milan anymore? We'll see next year, next week I should meet Urbano Cairo about this". He anticipates this on Un Giorno da Pecora, on Rai Radio1, with the mayor adding that his desire is however "not a sprint finish" but "a beautiful time trial stage. And then we need to work on the Milan-Sanremo, which now starts from Pavia".

The mayor throws it out there, adding "I'm a bit sorry that the Giro doesn't pass through Milan, but it was our assessment of convenience and cost". He was saying this at the end of 2017, the cycling mayor himself, who, doing the math, considered this moving spectacle's showcase not convenient for the city's coffers. The same reflection for the Sanremo start, "lost for 14,000 euros", Repubblica wrote on March 16, 2024, even though then there was talk of "logistical problems" and public land occupation fees to be paid (including police overtime: in short, Rcs Sport had to pay, rather than be paid).

For the record, yesterday the Giro arrived in Cesano Maderno, whose administration slipped 244,000 euros into Rcs Sport & Events' pockets, but Cesano's administrators worked so well that thanks to sponsors they collected more than 400.

Rome, an open city... for the pink grand finale, Milan, a cycling city that forgets its own history, made of Giro d'Italia and Vigorelli, Faliero Masi and Antonio Maspes, Bianchi and the Six Days, Cinelli and Doniselli, not to forget Drali and Vittore Gianni.