May 7 (Reuters) – Jonas Vingegaard \u2060is targeting a victory on his Giro d’Italia debut that would \u2060see him join an exclusive club of cyclists to have \u200cwon all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard, who won the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023 and the Vuelta a Espana in 2025, is among the favourites at this month’s \u200bGiro d’Italia.<\/p>\n
“Taking on this challenge, which is \u2060new to me, is exactly \u2060what I needed. I can’t wait to get started; my goal is to \u2060win \u200cthe Giro d’Italia in Rome,” the Visma-Lease a Bike rider told Gazzetta dello Sport in an interview published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“For \u2060several years, my competitive schedule has been very similar. \u200bI felt the \u200cneed for a change.<\/p>\n
“The Giro is a major goal, and I\u2019m \u2060convinced that \u200bthese few weeks will help me reach peak form for the Tour as well. But right now, my focus is solely on the Giro.”<\/p>\n
Victory in Italy \u2060would see Vingegaard become the eighth rider \u200bto win all three Grand Tours after Jacques Anquetil, Felice Gimondi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali and Chris Froome.<\/p>\n
Four-time Tour de France \u2060winner Tadej Pogacar needs a win at the Vuelta a Espana to complete the trio of Grand Tour wins but Vingegaard said he was not focused on achieving the feat before the Slovenian rider.<\/p>\n
“Achieving this hat-trick \u200bis a goal for me, and that\u2019s it. \u2060It means making history,” the Dane added.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019llget there too; it\u2019s just a \u200bmatter of time. Tadej is perhaps the best \u200cever. But I\u2019ve already beaten him \u200band I\u2019m confident I can do it again.”<\/p>\n
The Giro d’Italia runs from May 8-31.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Aadi Nair; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 7 (Reuters) – Jonas Vingegaard \u2060is targeting a victory on his Giro d’Italia debut that would \u2060see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,6675,85],"class_list":["post-655027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655027","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=655027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}