{"id":387801,"date":"2026-01-04T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:08:13","slug":"important-updates-on-possible-giro-ditalia-plans-for-jonas-vingegaard-and-unibet-rose-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387801\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Updates on Possible Giro d\u2019Italia plans for Jonas Vingegaard and Unibet Rose Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard and the Unibet Rose Rockets look increasingly likely to set their sights on the Giro d\u2019Italia in 2026. For the Dane at Visma | Lease a Bike, this would be a personal choice targeting a potential debut in the Italian Grand Tour, while for the Dutch-registered pro continental outfit of Bas Tietema, a Giro start could come as a replacement opportunity for Cofidis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Rockets have been aiming for a Tour de France wildcard for several seasons, and they appear to be in serious contention for one in 2026. With the arrivals of riders such as Dylan Groenewegen, Wout Poels, Victor Lafay and Niklas Larsen, Tietema\u2019s squad has bolstered its roster to make a case for invites to the sport\u2019s biggest races.<\/p>\n

According to Cycling Pro<\/a>, an interesting opening may now be emerging in the hunt for WorldTour start spots. Cofidis was relegated from the WorldTour in 2025 to the ProTour, but as the highest-performing ProTour team they retained automatic entry to the major WorldTour races. However, it now appears they may give up that right for the Giro d\u2019Italia, as there is no longer a compulsory start obligation.<\/p>\n

This situation could free up an additional wildcard for the Giro in May, with several teams potentially in the frame. Since Tudor Pro Cycling and Pinarello-Q36.5 have automatic start rights thanks to their 2025 performances, and outfits like Bardiani CSF 7 Saber and Polti VisitMalta are normally given wildcards, other teams now being discussed include Burgos Burpellet BH, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, Equipo Kern Pharma, TotalEnergies, and Unibet Rose Rockets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Could Dylan Groenewegen possibly go to the Giro in 2026?<\/p>\n

Jonas Vingegaard to the Giro d’Italia?<\/p>\n

Beyond the wildcard situation, a key question remains: which headline riders will be on the 2026 Giro d\u2019Italia start list? After Tadej Poga\u010dar ticked the race off his calendar in 2024 and the battle in 2025 saw Isaac Del Toro, Richard Carapaz and eventual winner Simon Yates, there\u2019s speculation that Visma | Lease a Bike may target the race next season \u2014 with Jonas Vingegaard at the centre of that plan.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Dane has never raced the Giro, making it the only one of the three Grand Tours missing from his palmar\u00e8s. Having already won the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023 and adding the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a title<\/a> last season, it\u2019s a natural question whether he\u2019ll line up at the Corsa Rosa in 2026 \u2014 especially given the dominance of Poga\u010dar in recent Tours.\u00a0Spanish outlet Marca<\/a> reports that the answer is \u201cyes\u201d, claiming that sources close to Vingegaard and Visma | Lease a Bike say a deal is in place for him to start the Giro, which begins in Bulgaria next May. The team\u2019s official programme will be unveiled at Visma\u2019s media day in mid-January, but the terms for his participation are said to have already been discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard and the Unibet Rose Rockets look increasingly likely to set their sights on the Giro d\u2019Italia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,43199,5900,82,154679,10761],"class_list":["post-387801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-sports","tag-unibet-rose-rockets","tag-visma-lease-a-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}