{"id":777491,"date":"2026-07-03T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:03:08","slug":"better-stronger-and-happier-jonas-vingegaard-is-ready-to-target-the-tour-de-france-after-giro-ditalia-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777491\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Better, stronger and happier’ \u2013 Jonas Vingegaard is ready to target the Tour de France after Giro d’Italia victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> has played down suggestions of fatigue after winning the Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a>, declaring himself fitter, stronger and happier as he attempts to win a third Tour de France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a> rider cruised to the Giro title in May<\/a> without serious opposition, in doing so becoming only the eighth man in history \u2013 and first since the now-retired Chris Froome<\/a> in 2018 \u2013 to win all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n

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Now the Dane, 29, is aiming to deny his eternal rival Tadej Poga\u010dar <\/a>a fifth and third successive Tour de France title in what is set to be the duo\u2019s latest ding-dong battle.<\/p>\n

Speaking to press in Barcelona before the start of the 113th Tour, Vingegaard was asked about the physical and mental toll of riding the Giro before the Tour. \u201cWithout taking anything away from anyone at the Giro, it is true that I did not have to completely kill myself [to win the race]. I didn\u2019t come out of the Giro completely on my knees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard won all five mountain-top stages at the Italian race and his closest challenger, Felix Gall, finished more than five minutes adrift of him in the general classification. It was, in reality, a procession for the rider who also won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> last September.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat means you can recover faster afterwards and start your training and get into a good rhythm quicker. If you are on your knees after the Giro, you need two weeks, maybe even more, to recover,” Vingegaard added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen it is hard to start building towards the Tour because then the Tour is already coming. For me at least, I came out of the Giro in a good way and pretty quickly I could start building towards the Tour de France.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Poga\u010dar<\/a>, in 2024, was the last rider to win the Giro and Tour in the same year, the Slovenian becoming the first rider to do so since Marco Pantani <\/a>in 1998.<\/p>\n

The 26-year stretch without a double winner led many commentators and riders to dub it the near-impossible task. Vingegaard is hoping to add his name to the short roll call of successors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried something new [in going for the Giro-Tour double], which was also the plan, because I think we realised after last year that it was not really so enjoyable to do what we did every year,\u201d Vingegaard said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo now we tried to mix it up with the preparation for the Tour, and it has been going really well this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m ready for this race and I am really looking forward to it. It has been an amazing year for me so far and I am looking forward to it hopefully continuing,\u201d<\/p>\n

Vingegaard and his Visma team have repeatedly said in the past few months that he is in better shape than ever before, and it was a message that the rider himself repeated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m both better and stronger,\u201d he said. \u201cI would even say I\u2019m happier in a mental state also; I\u2019m in a very good place. I\u2019ve had a very good year so far. I\u2019ve enjoyed riding a bit more this year than I did last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a very good season so far already with the three races I\u2019ve done\u201d \u2013 he also won Paris-Nice and Volta a Catalunya \u2013 \u201cand of course it takes some pressure off me and off the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the Tour de France is still the biggest race. It is still the race you really want to win. I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019m not happy with what I\u2019ve already won this year because I am extremely happy, especially also winning the Giro d\u2019Italia title and now having won all three Grand Tours.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut again, the Tour de France is just the biggest race of the year and I\u2019m here to go for the victory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard has played down suggestions of fatigue after winning the Giro d\u2019Italia, declaring himself fitter, stronger and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-777491","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\/777491","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=777491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}