Jonas Vingegaard’s every move, every sneeze and every performance is scrutinised as he targets the 2026 Giro d’Italia. His time trial performance was dissected and scrutinised, and Danish television even believed they detected a change in his voice.
To respond to speculation about illness spreading in the peloton and to try to control the narrative as Friday’s decisive mountain stage nears, Vingegaard and his Visma Lease a Bike team revealed that their team leader and some teammates had been sick after the rain and cold on several stages during the first week of the Corsa Rosa.
“Yes, we’ve had a bit of a cough and a tickle in the throat of some of the boys, but everything seems to be fine now,” Visma-Lease a Bike sports director Jesper Mørkøv told Danish TV channel TV2.
Vingegaard finished safely in the front peloton in Novi Ligure and kept the blue mountains jersey. Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain Victorious) snatched the Red Bull KM sprint and the six-second time bonuses to extend his lead over Vingegaard to 33 seconds. Thymen Arensman (Netcompany Ineos) is third overall at 2:03.
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