Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar will forever be compared to each other as the two best GC riders of a generation, but as the Dane looks to do something at the Giro d’Italia that even his main rival hasn’t yet done in his illustrious career – win all three Grand Tours – his Visma-Lease a Bike team have said there won’t be any sense of trying to one-up the 2024 winner’s dominant campaign.
Pogačar was all-conquering at his Giro debut, claiming pink with a win on stage 2 and holding it all the way until Rome with the biggest winning margin since 1965, nine minutes and fifty six seconds, taking six stages in total along the way.
Vingegaard is the only rider to ever beat Pogačar at the Tour de France, in 2022 and 2023, but while he can be a ruthless stage winner, with 49 professional victories to his name so far, he’s never won at the rate his rival has. Across his two Tour wins, Vingegaard only won three stages, but at the Vuelta last season, he had his most successful GT campaign to date, taking three stages en route to the red jersey.
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