Giro d'Italia 2025, Vingegaard motivates the no: "I want to arrive at the Tour in the best possible way"

Rome, 24 January 2025 - For many, the route of the Giro d'Italia 2025 it was practically designed to his size as an invitation for him to emulate the rival's deeds Tadej pogacar after just one year: instead jonas vingegaard, surprisingly, says no to the Corsa pink, for a motivated choice to the microphones of Eurosport.

Vingegaard's statements

 "With the team we initially talked about what we wanted to do and the Giro d'Italia It was in the plans, but then we said we wanted to try to get to the Tour de France in the best possible condition. That will be our main objective and then everything else will be seen". The 'rest' seems to include the Return. "When two years ago I did Tour de France e Return in the same year, to be honest, I had good feelings and so this thought is also one of the reasons for our choice". Therefore, there are serious possibilities that the two races made in Aso may have both at the start vingegaard and pogacar, with the latter going on a hunt for the Triple Crown to be completed in record time and the first to try to put a spoke in his wheel instead. Giro d'Italia, instead, as regards the Visma-Lease a Bike will console himself with Simon yates as captain, while on the part of theUAE Team Emirates definitive guidelines are still missing: everything pushes for a triumvirate in the name of the other Yachts, Adam, And Juan Ayuso e Isaac Del Toro.

Hayter's statements

Then there are those who like ethan hayter he would have liked to be at the start of any Great Tour, but finding himself with a firm no from his own team: an understandable choice, if it weren't for the fact that no one talks about that anymore Ineos Grenadiers with which he had been at odds for some time, but rather of the Soudal Quick Step, who is ready, go and dissatisfied with his new rider. "The atmosphere is still fresher than in my past, with the staff members who are sometimes even more enthusiastic than us about going into training camp. I feel the passion that permeates this team, who from the beginning said they believed in me and would do everything to make me improve". However, there is a big 'but' that the British rider does not hide in his chat with the microphones of Spouse. "I will be at Brabant Arrow, Amstel Gold Race, Tour of Oman, Volta a Catalunya, Tour of the Basque Country e Tour of Romandie, but even this year I will not have the chance to win stages in a Great Tour. I wouldn't call it a problem, but it's a bit like what happened at the Ineos Grenadiers. I was thinking about the Giro d'Italia, but there the leader will be Mikel Landa, but I wouldn't have any problems doing the same either Return next to Tim Merlier (recently renewed, ed.). I don't think there are sprints where we would fight against each other, because I can compete in the stages where the sprinters break away. It's a shame that not even in 2025 I will return in a Great Tour, tasted only once for ten days (on the occasion of the 2022 lap, ed.)".

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