{"id":258119,"date":"2025-11-12T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258119\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:24:10","slug":"id-rather-win-the-giro-ditalia-than-the-tour-de-france-for-2026-jonas-vingegaard-seeks-out-grand-tour-triple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258119\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’d rather win the Giro d’Italia than the Tour de France for 2026’ \u2013 Jonas Vingegaard seeks out Grand Tour triple"},"content":{"rendered":"

If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again \u2013 or at least go to the Giro d’Italia<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

That appears to be the tactic that Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> intends to adopt for 2026, having hinted strongly that he would prefer to win the Italian Grand Tour over the Tour de France<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n

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To be fair to the Danish Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a> rider, as a two-time winner he has very much succeeded already at the Tour. He added victory in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> to those titles in September this year, too.<\/p>\n

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But it would seem as though the dominance of Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> \u2013 who has won the Tour de France on both the two most recent occasions \u2013 has encouraged Vingegaard to look elsewhere for glory.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard was talking to La Derni\u00e8re Heure<\/a> at ASO’s recent annual Saitama Criterium in Japan, an exhibition race which he won ahead of Lidl-Trek<\/a>‘s Jonathan Milan.<\/p>\n

He said: “Win three Grand Tours or the Tour de France in 2026? I think I’d prefer to win the three Grand Tours. And after the Tour de France and the Vuelta, I only have the Giro left.”<\/p>\n

However, he insisted that the French race would remain on his calendar and would still be the priority.<\/p>\n

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“We haven’t decided where I’ll race next season,” he said. “The Tour de France obviously remains the big objective.”<\/p>\n

It’s all rather cryptic, but it sounds like Vingegaard is keeping his options open at the very least.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard and his team have talked previously<\/a> about a Giro debut for the Dane, but have yet to pull the trigger. Earlier this year team sports director Grischa Niermann said: “We were thinking about taking the Giro as a kind of preparation [for the Tour], but there are so many factors when you go to the Giro. How is the Giro [route]? How is the weather? How hard do you have to go every day? There are a lot of things you can\u2019t control yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we realised that if you go on a training camp you can control every training session you do and that\u2019s probably better.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently Niermann said they were considering next year’s Giro but would be in a better position to make a decision on it once the route had been announced in detail.<\/p>\n

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