{"id":698056,"date":"2026-05-27T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:43:12","slug":"it-would-be-nice-to-win-another-two-stages-but-i-dont-want-to-completely-kill-myself-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698056\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt would be nice to win another two stages… but I don\u2019t want to completely kill myself here\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cIt would be nice to win another two stages, but I don\u2019t expect it,\u201d Vingegaard said in conversation with Cycling Pro Net after stage 17.<\/a> \u201cOf course, it is going to be two very hard stages in the mountains and as I also have said before, there is also a race in July I want to do.\u201dVingegaard keeps July in mindThat race, of course, is the Tour de France<\/a>, and Vingegaard did not hide the fact that he is already managing his effort with the next Grand Tour in mind.<\/p>\n

After making a major statement on stage 16, where he extended his overall advantage, the Dane suggested there was little value in spending unnecessary energy if the Giro can be controlled without doing so. \u201cI also went pretty deep yesterday,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, I would still like to win stages. That\u2019s not the case. But sometimes you need to maybe think about what\u2019s coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked directly whether the Tour de France was already in the back of his mind, Vingegaard answered clearly. \u201cOf course I somewhat think about it,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to completely kill myself here if it is possible not to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments underline the position Vingegaard now occupies at this Giro. He has already built a commanding lead, he has already won multiple stages, and the final mountain tests still offer opportunities. But with July looming, every extra effort now comes with a wider calculation.<\/p>\n

Valgren win brings Danish delight<\/p>\n

Stage 17 was also notable for a Danish victory away from the GC fight, as Valgren held off Andreas Leknessund and Damiano Caruso after a chaotic breakaway finale in Andalo.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard said he had been following the situation at the front over race radio and was pleased to hear his compatriot had finished the job. \u201cIt made me really happy,\u201d he said. \u201cI asked a few times about the situation in front and when I heard he had won the stage, it made me really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day\u2019s tactics were shaped partly by Caruso\u2019s presence in the breakaway, with Visma, Tudor Pro Cycling Team and Team Jayco AlUla all having reasons to keep the gap under some control. Caruso eventually moved back into the top 10 overall after finishing third on the stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say there is much communication,\u201d Vingegaard explained when asked how the teams coordinated behind. \u201cIt is just that the breakaway goes, Damiano Caruso is there and we start pulling. Obviously we will give them five, six, seven minutes, but then they also want to defend their spots in GC, so it makes sense that they start pulling.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Vingegaard, the Giro remains firmly under control. The question now is not only whether he can win more before Rome, but how much he is willing to spend to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIt would be nice to win another two stages, but I don\u2019t expect it,\u201d Vingegaard said in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,43199,5900,82,130976,636],"class_list":["post-698056","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-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698056","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=698056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}