Vingegaard confirms post-Giro plans ahead of Tour preparation

Jonas Vingegaard is on track to win the Giro on debut, leading Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM) by 4:03 and having won all four mountain-top finishes so far in the process. If the Dane holds pink until Rome, he’ll become just the eighth rider to win all three Grand Tours. 

If that proves to be the case, Vingegaard and Visma’s attention will quickly turn to trying to win a third Tour de France and becoming the ninth man to complete the Giro-Tour double.

“I’ll stay home for two weeks, and then I’ll go to Tignes with my teammates when they come from Dauphiné, or yeah, I can’t remember the new name. You put the new name, instead of what I said,” Vingegaard said in his post-stage 17 press conference. 

Last year, Vingegaard raced the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, formerly known as the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he finished second on five stages and second overall behind Tadej Pogačar, before going on to be runner-up at the Tour de France for the second consecutive edition of La Grande Boucle. 

With the Dane currently leading the Giro d’Italia inside the final week, it is unsurprising that he will not race again between the final stage in Rome and the start of the Tour in Barcelona on July 4. 

Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM), Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek), Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike), João Almeida and Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) are some of the names who headline the provisional start list for the 2026 edition of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, which begins on June 7.

Meanwhile, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) will forego the defence of his Dauphiné title to make his debut at the Tour de Suisse, which begins on June 17. 

The World Champion headlines an early provisional start list that also includes Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5), Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)