Italy Giro 2025 | Misfortune is primed with Mikel Landa: his curse in the turn and other falls that were too punishment for him

Of the eight participations of Mikel Rural in it Giro de Italiait is clear that they shine, above any other result, their Two podiums: It was third both in 2015, when Alberto Contador won the last big one of Spanish cycling to date, as in 2022. However, it is about Oasis in a desert that he had, this 2025, his latest unfortunate chapter.

Just in the edition after his first great moment on Italian roads, Landa was forced to leave in the tenth stage. In 2016the reason for his goodbye to the turn was not a fall, but a gastroenteritis that his favoritism took ahead, then in the ranks of the Sky.

In 2017Landa did not abandon, but lost the turn because of a montonera. A police motorcycle incorrectly parked him to go to the ground next to Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates when the blockhaus was promoted, losing no less than 27 minutes With an almighty Nairo Quintana: I would end up seventeenth in the general.

The similarities with what happened today are much greater if we stop at 2021. So, A fall in a curve in the absence of four kilometers for finishingin the fifth stage, he forced Landa, as now, to abandon the ambulance and very painful turn. At that time, I ran for the Bahrain-Victororus.

Thus we reach a 2025 in which his batacazo against a curb has erased the smile of the face of Murguía. He arrived at the pink corsa with the morale through the clouds, recent (Until the end of 2026) And in a state so that he invited to dream of seeing him make a more than remarkable turn. But all their plans have gone to the fret, with a vertebra fracture that, everything seems to indicate already lack of officiality, greatly compromises what remains of the season.

The turn is not the only entity test that has given a punishment rather than severe to Landa. It still costs to forget, for example, its Fall in full decline at home, during Itzulia 2024. Due to that mishap in the fourth stage of the Basque test, he also had to leave.

Nor has it been oblivious to misfortune in the Tour de France: In the tenth stage of 2019, he lost more than two minutes and said goodbye to the fight for the general when he was involved in a fall motivated by a Warren Barguil maneuver after touching Julian Alaphilippe. And in 2018, as can be seen in the video below, he also kissed the canvas. More luck has run in the Vuelta, although it was already without playing that 2018, precisely for breaking a vertebra in the classic of San Sebastián.

Not to mention that The clavicle has given Landa a lot of war throughout his career. The enumeration scares: it fractured it for the first time in the return to Murcia of 2011, repeated in the Dauphiné of that same year and suffered again identical injury in the Challenge of Mallorca of 2019.

They are some samples of the scarce fortune that has accompanied Mikel Landa while rolling at the highest level. What would have been of Landism, such a beloved movement, if the circumstances had respected more and better? Unfortunately, we will never know.

*Do not miss the 2025 Italian turn in Eurosport and Max.