Egan Bernal, in the Tour of Italy.
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The return to Spain 2025 is ready to begin, from this Saturday to September 14, and Colombia will say present with five runners that will seek to be noticed in the last great return of the year.
Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain – Victorus), Sergio Higita and Harold Tejada (XDS Astana Team), Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) and Esteban Chaves (EF Education – Easypost) make up the national payroll.
Among them, the great letter of aspirations is Egan Bernal, who at 28 returns to the Iberian round with the intention of starring in the high mountain.
The 2025 season arrives with two major chapters already written: the Giro de Italia, which was left to the British Simon Yates, and the Tour of France, where Tadej Pogacar added his fourth crown, consolidating himself as the great dominator of the modern era.
In this context, the return to Spain appears as the opportunity for other names to shine, although the list of favorites is full of figures. Jonas Vingegaard, João Almeida, Juan Ayuso and Mads Pedersen are among the calls to fight the red shirt, while runners such as Ben O'Connor, Tom Pidcock and Giulio Ciccone appear as serious animators.
Colombia, which in this edition provides five cyclists, goes back two places compared to the previous year, when it had seven representatives.
The country is ninth in the list of nations with more competitors, in a ranking that leads Spain with 27 cyclists, followed by Belgium (16) and Italy (15). For the national fans, the illusion falls to Santiago Buitrago, a corridor who already knows what it is to win stages in big laps, and in the always combative Sergio Higuita, who will seek prominence in explosive arrivals and leaks. Tejada, quieter, is key as gregarious, while Esteban Chaves, with his experience, will contribute consistency in the mountain.
The return will also be a generational contrast terrain for Colombians. While Buitrago, Higuita and Tejada, all in the range of 25 to 28 years, represent the new guard with potential of partial victories, Egan Bernal, after his accident, faces a different challenge: to show that he still has the spark that led him to win a tour of France in 2019 and a Italian turn in 2021.
The international panorama is demanding. The last three return champions have been Primoz Roglic, Sepp Kuss and Remco Evenepoel, all great climbers and strategists. Successors of that size mark the demand for a competition that has historically rewarded the regularity and the ability to resist in recent weeks. For Colombians, the immediate objective is to conquer stages and stay in the Top 10 of the general classification, a capital challenge considering the strength of rival squads.
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