Vincenzo Nibali already booked for 2023

Message to Vincenzo Nibali

On Saturday Vincenzo Nibali will make his last appearance in professional cycling by participating in the Giro di Lombardia, a monumental Classica that he has won twice in his extraordinary career, in 2015 and 2017. But the Shark also has in his palmares two editions of the Cycling Stars Criterium: the first, held in 2017 in Montebelluna, and the last, the one in Valdobbiadene last May 30, where with a finisseur action he detached all rivals arriving with his arms raised in Piazza Marconi.

The relationship between the champion from Messina and the kermesse has been special from the beginning .Since that first time in Montebelluna that saw him as the winner, in fact, his participation has never been missed. He was present again in Montebelluna in 2018, then in Belluno in 2019 and 2021, until this year in the Valdobbiadene stage.

Having among its start list a rider of Nibali’s caliber has always been a source of pride and pride for the Cycling Stars Criterium, not only for his sporting achievements but also for the human qualities he has demonstrated both on and off the course throughout his years as a professional.

Exemplary in this sense is the great helpfulness he has always shown with the thousands of fans and enthusiasts who have flocked to see him in the various stages of the Criterium, an attentiveness that has helped make him one of the most beloved sportsmen of recent decades.

“We wish the Shark all the best for his new life, which we are sure will still be full of challenges and extraordinary goals. In the certainty that, whenever he wants, he will always find a wild card from us ready and waiting for him. To communicate maybe already from next year, when the Cycling Stars Criterium will return to put on a show on the roads of Prosecco Conegliano-Valdobbiadene (and not only),” reads the note issued by the Cycling Stars Criterium.