While Visma-Lease a Bike have ensured that Jonas Vingegaard‘s racing the Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double in 2026 is a data-driven endeavour, the Dane couldn’t help but highlight the less tangible factor of feeling “new energy” when it comes to why he’s opted for a change in approach.
Ever since he broke through fully as a GC hopeful at the Tour in 2021, Visma have had a tried and tested approach to success at cycling’s biggest race: altitude camp, Critérium du Dauphiné, altitude camp again, and then race the Tour.
Repeated in four of the past five seasons – only missing out in 2024 due to injury recovery – Vingegaard won two Tours in 2022 and 2023 ahead of main rival Tadej Pogačar, and has finished second at every other appearance. So why change it?
Relaxed as ever as he spoke in La Nucia, Vingegaard did seem refreshed by his new calendar, but made sure to stress how he is confident that racing, and hopefully winning, the Giro will only be a benefit to the Tour, where he has lost convincingly to Pogačar the past two seasons.
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