{"id":215548,"date":"2025-10-21T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215548\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:34:07","slug":"cycling-also-exists-outside-of-the-tour-de-france-jonas-vingegaard-teases-possible-giro-ditalia-bid-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215548\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cycling also exists outside of the Tour de France’ \u2013\u00a0Jonas Vingegaard teases possible Giro d’Italia bid for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> has said that “cycling also exists outside of the Tour de France<\/a>” as he outlined hopes of one day completing his Grand Tour set at the Giro d’Italia<\/a> and taking part in more one-day races.<\/p>\n

The Dane, who won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a this year after finishing second at the Tour behind Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a>, told L’Equipe<\/a> that a Giro bid could come as early as next season, though he and his Visma-Lease a Bike team haven’t yet worked out a full plan for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

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“We haven’t yet established the plan with the team. I have my idea, my desires. The Tour de France is so big that it will necessarily be part of this plan, and we’ll see if the Giro can also be part of it,” Vingegaard said.<\/p>\n

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“It would be great, obviously; it’s a dream to win all three Grand Tours, for all riders, I think. So it’s something very important for me. We could say that we try it next year and we’ll see what happens, we’ll see. I would also be very happy to go to the Giro.”<\/p>\n

Vingegaard, who won the Tour in 2022 and 2023 but has finished runner-up to Poga\u010dar in the past two years, said he was pleased with his 2025 campaign despite once again missing out on victory in July.<\/p>\n

In addition to his Vuelta triumph, he also won the Volta ao Algarve and finished second at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, though a crash and concussion at Paris-Nice<\/a> disrupted his spring.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a pretty good year. Not the best I\u2019ve had, obviously, I think my 2023 season was better. But finishing second in the Tour de France and winning the Vuelta, it\u2019s not a bad season,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“My goal was to win the Tour, so from that point of view I didn\u2019t fulfill my contract, but I still won the Vuelta. So I\u2019d say 7 out of 10, something like that, maybe even 8.<\/p>\n

“Cycling also exists outside of the Tour. Obviously, it’s always the most important race, and that’s why I say the season wasn’t perfect either; I would have had to win for that. But there are also many other races, like the Vuelta.<\/p>\n

“I enjoyed all the one-week races too. But this season, there was also my crash, my concussion, which put me on hold a bit and affected the rest of the season a bit.”<\/p>\n

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He said that he’s now producing the same power he was before his career-threatening 2024 crash at Itzulia Basque Country<\/a>, but admitted he still has catching up to do to match Poga\u010dar once more.<\/p>\n

“In a way, I lost a year and a half of progression, where I focused on getting back to the level I was at before,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I just have to hope [I can catch up]… Because before my crash, I was on a really upward curve, I was progressing really fast, so I hope I’m back on that progression curve. We have to see if I improve any more, and I will do absolutely everything I can.”<\/p>\n

Vingegaard has a reputation for focussing on stage races over one-day events, having only started Donostia San Sebasti\u00e1n Klasikoa and the Road European Championships in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

By contrast, his great Tour rival Poga\u010dar has raced 24 in that time, winning 14 \u2013 including two editions of Strade Bianche and Il Lombardia plus the Tour of Flanders<\/a>, Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, and two world titles.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard did, however, express interest in competing in more one-day races, including next season’s Road World Championships, in the future.<\/p>\n

“Cycling isn’t just about stage races. There are also big one-day races, even for climbers like me: Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, the World Championships this year or next year, Il Lombardia. Lots of great one-day races,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So as a cyclist, you want to try. I don’t know when it will be, or if it will ever happen, but it’s something I have in mind, and something I always have. Li\u00e8ge doesn’t fit very well into my preparation before the Tour.<\/p>\n

“And if I want to do the Vuelta, it’s difficult to go to the World Championships. It’s a compromise; if I want to do these races, I can’t do some others.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard has said that “cycling also exists outside of the Tour de France” as he outlined hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-215548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}