{"id":763473,"date":"2026-06-26T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763473\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:20:15","slug":"pellizzari-on-giro-lessons-and-missing-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763473\/","title":{"rendered":"Pellizzari on Giro lessons and missing the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giulio Pellizzari<\/a> will not ride another Grand Tour in 2026. The young Italian from Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe had a physically and mentally challenging Giro d’Italia<\/a>. As such, he won\u2019t be starting the Tour de France alongside rivals Isaac del Toro (UAE Emirates-XRG) and Davide Piganzoli (Visma | Lease a Bike). The Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a is also off the table for the climber.On paper, Pellizzari was the main challenger in May to eventual overall winner Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike). The 22-year-old Italian finished third this year in the Tour of Valencia and Tirreno-Adriatico and even won two stages and the overall classification in the Tour of the Alps<\/a>.Pellizzari got off to a good start in the Giro; he dared to keep up with Vingegaard on day seven, but a virus then threw a wrench in his plans. Pellizzari pushed himself too hard and paid the price heading into the third week<\/a>. In the end, he helped teammate Jai Hindley secure third place in the overall standings<\/a>.”I see the Giro d’Italia<\/a> as a lesson, a way to learn,” Pellizzari said in La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>. “I took a big hit, but that will come in handy in the future. I didn’t achieve the result I wanted, but I did gain a lot more experience.”<\/p>\n

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Pellizzari regains some form at the Tour of SloveniaAfter a grueling Giro d’Italia, Pellizzari’s name was briefly mentioned as a possible contender for the Tour de France, but his performance in the Tour of Slovenia seemed to provide the answer. Pellizzari finished second there<\/a>, behind teammate Florian Lipowitz, who will be competing at the Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’ve found consistency\u2014that was one of the things I was looking for this season,” said the climber, who has finished on the podium in all of his stage races this year outside of the Giro. “The Tour of Slovenia was the best way to get back into the swing of things after a short vacation.”<\/p>\n

Pellizzari\u2019s focus is actually on the second half of the season. \u201cI\u2019ve regained that good feeling on the bike, and I really enjoyed riding with Florian. I won\u2019t be riding any more Grand Tours this season. In August, I\u2019ll be competing in the Cl\u00e1sica San Sebasti\u00e1n and the Tour of Burgos.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pellizzari with his friend and fellow Italian Davide Piganzoli, who will be riding the Tour de France for Visma | Lease a Bike.<\/p>\n

Pellizzari sets sights on the late Italian season and the World Cycling Championships<\/p>\n

After a training period and the Spanish races, Pellizzari hopes to be in top form by fall. Not for the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, which he rode last year, but for the Italian autumn season and the World Championships in Canada. \u201cI hope to compete. There\u2019s still a question mark regarding the European Championships in Slovenia; I\u2019ll wrap up the season in Lombardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pellizzari doesn\u2019t think he did anything wrong leading up to the Giro. He dismisses the notion that he was \u201ctoo good\u201d in the Tour of the Alps. \u201cNo one was in top form there, not even me\u2014that\u2019s what the data showed. I improved during the Giro, but then what happened happened. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The schedule for the remainder of 2026 is therefore not a stopgap measure, but a deliberate choice. Last year, Pellizzari competed in two Grand Tours and finished sixth in both the Giro and the Vuelta. He also won a stage in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n

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\"giulio-pellizzari\"\/Pellizzari doesn’t think the Tour de France will be exciting with Pogacar<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll now be watching the Grand Tours from the sidelines. He\u2019ll be cheering on Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, with Remco Evenepoel and Lipowitz, but he\u2019ll undoubtedly also be keeping an eye on his friends and peers Del Toro and Piganzoli, who are competing in the Tour.<\/p>\n

“Although I don’t think the overall victory is up for grabs given Pogacar’s form. I’m counting on Remco and Florian to make their mark in the fight for the podium.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giulio Pellizzari will not ride another Grand Tour in 2026. The young Italian from Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe had a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,43199,135413,18460,82,262636],"class_list":["post-763473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-giulio-pellizzari","tag-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763473","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=763473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}