{"id":79958,"date":"2025-08-20T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:47:08","slug":"ex-winner-aru-advises-vingegaard-ahead-of-the-vuelta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79958\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-winner Aru advises Vingegaard ahead of the Vuelta"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> just around the corner, it\u2019s time for some pre-race analysis<\/a>. And who better to weigh in than former overall winner Fabio Aru, who this year celebrates the 10th anniversary of his 2015 Vuelta victory? The 35-year-old Italian had some advice ready for several of this year\u2019s big names… including Jonas Vingegaard<\/a>.\u201cIt\u2019s still very emotional for me, and this year the Vuelta even starts in Italy,\u201d Aru told TuttoBiciWeb<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m a spokesman for the race, so I\u2019ll be there at both the start and the finish. It\u2019ll be exciting to see how the race develops and who ends up winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aru won the Vuelta in 2015 after finishing second in the Giro earlier that year. \u201cAfter the Giro, I decided to pull out and start focusing on the Vuelta. I didn\u2019t even ride the Italian national championships. I was already in full prep mode,\u201d he recalled. \u201cWe had a good strategy and were feeling strong, but Dumoulin was there, fighting until the very last day. When you\u2019re up against riders like that, you can never be sure of victory. Winning the Vuelta was the moment I truly understood what it means to stand on the podium as a Grand Tour winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fabio Aru<\/p>\n

Aru analyzes Italy’s hopefuls: “I think he can do well”<\/p>\n

This year, Italy\u2019s best hopes rest on Giulio Ciccone and Giulio Pellizzari. Aru had specific advice for both. \u201cI can only tell him to believe in himself,\u201d said the former champion about the Lidl-Trek rider. \u201cBut maybe he should focus on a few key stages rather than chasing the GC. In the Vuelta, he\u2019ll be up against riders like Vingegaard, who won\u2019t give anyone an inch on the big climbs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aru gave similar advice for Pellizzari. \u201cI think he should ride to back up or build on his performance. In the Giro, he first had to work for Roglic before riding for himself. Roglic won\u2019t be at the Vuelta this year, so I think we\u2019ll see him with a bit more freedom, so I think he can do well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Giulio Pellizzari<\/p>\n

Aru’s advice for Vingegaard: “Try something new to expand his palmar\u00e8s”<\/p>\n

Aru had already name-dropped Vingegaard, who will also be at the Vuelta\u2019s start line. And the Italian had some strategic suggestions for the Danish star from Visma | Lease a Bike. \u201cI think he needs to step away from the Vingegaard-Pogacar rivalry. In the end, Tadej kind of gets in his way. The results are what they are. Vingegaard can definitely do well, but we\u2019ll have to see how he came out of the Tour and how much he\u2019s recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aru based that on the past two Tours de France. \u201cHe may have been even stronger than the year he won, and yet this time he didn\u2019t win a single stage. Winning the Vuelta could help take off some of that pressure. I think he should also start targeting different goals, like Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge or the Giro d\u2019Italia. He should try to win something new to expand his palmar\u00e8s and escape this Tour de France trap,\u201d Aru concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a just around the corner, it\u2019s time for some pre-race analysis. And who better…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-79958","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\/79958","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=79958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}