Jonas Vingegaard looks set to tick off the missing piece in his Grand Tour puzzle this May, with Spanish newspaper Marca reporting that the Dane has a deal in place to make his debut at the 2026 Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n
The Visma-Lease a Bike star won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a last September and already owns two yellow jerseys from the Tour de France. A Giro title would complete the set and place him among cycling\u2019s most elite, only seven riders in history have won all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Rumors of a Giro bid surfaced in the 2024 off-season but were shelved in favor of another Tour-first calendar. This time, however, signs point to a change of plan, with the Grande Partenza set to roll out from Bulgaria.<\/p>\n
In past interviews, Vingegaard hinted at his ambition. \u201cI think I\u2019d prefer to win all three Grand Tours,\u201d he told DH Les Sports+. And in another chat with Marca, he named the Giro as the one race he\u2019d choose if he could win just one more.<\/p>\n
The Giro would mark the ninth Grand Tour of his career. Since finishing 46th on debut at the 2020 Vuelta, Vingegaard has never placed lower than second on GC in a Grand Tour, making him an instant favorite for the maglia rosa, especially with Tadej Poga\u010dar not expected to return to the Italian race this year.<\/p>\n
Other big names likely to feature include Jo\u00e3o Almeida, Adam Yates, Felix Gall, and Red Bull-Bora\u2019s Jai Hindley and Giulio Pellizzari. The final confirmation of Vingegaard\u2019s schedule is expected during Visma\u2019s team presentation in Spain on January 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard looks set to tick off the missing piece in his Grand Tour puzzle this May, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-388919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388919","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=388919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}