{"id":323195,"date":"2025-12-02T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323195\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:31:10","slug":"i-think-id-choose-the-giro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323195\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I think I’d choose the Giro’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After his two wins in the Tour de France<\/a> and his victory in this year’s Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> ‘only’ needs to win the Giro d’Italia<\/a> to join an illustrious list of legends. After the victory in Spain, the Dane of Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike had already been vocal about the possibilities of a start in the Italian race, but where do things stand now after the route was made public?Of course, Vingegaard knows: the Tour de France is the most important grand tour, and will remain so for him and his team for quite a while. But the Giro d’Italia is certainly an option for the climber, who would love to win all the grand tours. When Marca<\/a> asks him which race he would most like to win, the answer is straight forward: “I think I’d choose the Giro d’Italia.”The route doesn\u2019t look unfavourable<\/a> at all for the two-time Tour winner, with several summit finishes and a hefty individual time trial. But is that enough to commit already? <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say anything about that yet,\u201d the Dane replied. \u201cWe haven\u2019t decided what we\u2019re going to do next year. It\u2019s something we have to discuss with the team. Then we\u2019ll make a plan and see which races I\u2019ll ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Giro\u2013Tour double is possible, Vingegaard knows. He hopes that combination will be just as manageable as the Tour\u2013Vuelta double he successfully pulled off this year, when he added the Spanish Grand Tour to his palmar\u00e8s. \u201cI\u2019ve always enjoyed riding the Tour and the Vuelta. It\u2019s been a long season, and it feels very long all the way through to October. But if you ride both the Tour and the Vuelta, you don\u2019t have to train that much after the Tour; you\u2019re practically done with your season by then. I\u2019ve always liked that combination.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"jonas-vingegaard\"\/Giro the main goal, or still the Tour?<\/p>\n

Yet one question will remain: how fresh will Vingegaard be on the Giro start line, if he does decide to race it? La Grande Boucle will continue to be the main objective.<\/p>\n

\u201c I think the Tour de France is so big that you want to go for it as soon as you have even the smallest chance,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe Tour is huge, and it\u2019s hard to win there. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s impossible, but maybe you have to combine it with other races.\u201d<\/p>\n

Would Vingegaard consider his season a success if he wins either the Tour or the Giro? For him, the answer is actually much simpler. \u201cI would be very happy if I could have a season without breaks. Last year I had a few moments, and this year as well. A few short ones, but they were there. Of course I also want to win races, but I\u2019m not going to say now which ones they have to be. It depends on the goals we set as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After his two wins in the Tour de France and his victory in this year’s Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,163619,6495,85,2845,23372],"class_list":["post-323195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}