ROME \u2014\u00a0Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard\u00a0won the Giro d\u2019Italia on Sunday, becoming the eighth male rider to win all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard, who rides for Team Visma-Lease a Bike, ended the three-week race with an overall advantage of 5 minutes, 22 seconds over second-place Felix Gall. Jai Hindley finished third, 6:25 behind.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard won the Tour de France\u00a0in 2022 and \u201923\u00a0and last year clinched his first\u00a0Spanish Vuelta title. It was his first Giro.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve dreamt of my whole life and to now be able to do it, it\u2019s something special,\u201d an emotional Vingegaard said in his first interview as Giro winner. “I\u2019m lost for words.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a really special day, with so many people on the side of the road, so many spectators, it was really incredible. To get the honor to wear the maglia rosa in the streets of Rome is something special. With these last three weeks, it\u2019s just such a nice way to end this race.\u201d<\/p>\n
After crossing the line in Rome, the 29-year-old Vingegaard embraced his wife and two children, who were wearing replicas of his maglia rosa \u2014 the leader’s pink jersey.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, that\u2019s even nicer, it also gives me tears in my eyes, they\u2019re always there for me,\u201d said Vingegaard, who has celebrated his five stage wins at the Giro by kissing the photo of his family that is on the handlebar of his bicycle, before kissing his wedding ring.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard also carried his children with him to the podium, where he was presented with the Trofeo Senza Fine (Trophy With No End).<\/p>\n
Having dominated his first Giro \u2014 living up to his billing as pre-race favorite \u2014 Vingegaard will turn his attention to the Tour de France as he attempts to become the ninth man to complete the Giro-Tour double in the same year.<\/p>\n
However, there he will face cycling\u2019s top talent Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian, who skipped the Giro to focus on adding to his four Tour titles, became the first man in 26 years to do the Giro-Tour double when\u00a0he achieved the feat in 2024.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s largely processional final Giro stage, that ended with eight laps through Rome, was won by sprint specialist Jonathan Milan.<\/p>\n
The 131-kilometer route started in Rome and then went out the sea before returning to the Italian capital for the finishing circuit.<\/p>\n
So relaxed were the riders that they were all seen sharing a box of sweets as they started the stage, before also being given glasses of Prosecco. They also all posed for team photos during the ride out to the sea.<\/p>\n
Milan, who had seen other bids for stage wins end in disappointment earlier in the race, finally got his victory. The Italian edged out compatriot Giovanni Lonardi and French cyclist Paul Penho\u00ebt in a bunch sprint.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super happy to end this Giro in this way,\u201d Milan said. \u201cIt\u2019s beautiful. After three weeks that we were looking for this, winning the last stage in Rome means that we were keeping the head there, we never give up, we always keep fighting for the victory, we were always believing in it, we always believe in each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME \u2014\u00a0Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard\u00a0won the Giro d\u2019Italia on Sunday, becoming the eighth male rider to win all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-706457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706457","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=706457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}