‘Our friendship will never die’ – Jonas Vingegaard and Michael Valgren celebrate victory and boyhood friendship at the Giro d’Italia

The Danish tifosi along the roadside of the Giro d’Italia are growing in number as Jonas Vingegaard moves closer to overall victory. For the first time in Giro history, a Dane also won the stage while another Dane raced in pink, thanks to Michael Valgren‘s perfect breakaway strategy. It was a double Dane-day in Andalo, above Trento.

Vingegaard and Valgren were born just eight kilometres apart in North Jutland near the North Sea. Vingegaard is six years younger than Valgren but they rode for the same cycling club and were part of the same cycling community.