Possible fight between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard at Giro d'Italia next year? Maglia Rosa wants to return in 2025
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After the conclusion of the Giro d'Italia 2024, where Tadej Pogacar swept to victory in his debut with a dominant overall win, including six stage victories, a bombshell has gone off. According to RAI's Beppe Conti, the UAE Team Emirates star has expressed to him off-microphone a desire to return in 2025 to the Corsa Rosa. This would be brutal news for the cycling world, as it has also been rumoured that Jonas Vingegaard could race the first grand tour of the year next season.
It is rumoured that Team Visma | Lease a Bike is thinking about Vingegaard doing next season the same Giro d'Italia - Tour de France double that Pogacar is doing this year. Therefore, we could have an incredible chapter in this rivalry between the two best riders in the world who, so far, have only been able to measure themselves at the highest level in the Tour de France.
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This leak comes as a complete surprise, since, without going any further, a day before the end of the Giro in Rome, Joxean Fernandez Matxín announced that the plan was for Tadej Pogacar to race Paris-Roubaix and the Tour de France - Vuelta a España double in 2025. But it must be that the Slovenian is much more attracted to the idea of taking on Vingegaard on Italian roads, where he has already shown that he is capable of shining at the highest level.
This turn of events would make perfect sense. On the one hand, Jonas Vingegaard could redeem himself from a 2024 in which he still doesn't know if he'll be able to race the Tour de France due to his recovery from the crash at the Itzulia. Moreover, if he does, he is not expected to be in the best physical shape to compete against Primoz Roglic, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogacar, who will face the Grande Boucle in one of his best moments.
On the other hand, Pogacar would give up riding the Vuelta a España 2025 in order to have another head-to-head with a Vingegaard who in the last two years ruined the 2022 and 2023 seasons by beating him consecutively in the Tour de France. It is likely that the Slovenian will beat the Dane in 2024, but would it be enough to forget the previous two?
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Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He regularly contributes to DartsNews.com and CyclingUpToDate.com, where he covers professional cycling and darts. In cycling, his work includes liveblogs from major races, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España, alongside race reports and analysis. He has also conducted interviews with professional riders.
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- lol yeahmij08-11-2026
- I know, their headlines can be so misleading. Pidcock had a great season with 5 wins. and some solid 2nds. no reason to take away from that with a fake headline.mij08-11-2026
- You can clearly see the the posture change from slightly sitting to again out of the saddle while changing of gears in the video of the sprintabstractengineer08-11-2026
- He has already beaten Pogi twice in the TDF. the achievement is over. He cannot beat Pogi now and he only has a few years left at the top. Win Giro and compete in the TDF, maximise palmares.abstractengineer08-11-2026
- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
- How can you use a photo post incident to judge the incident itself (which is not hard to find if you’re prepared to invest the same amount of time in searching as writing that comment? It’s harsh but technically right even though this or worse is not always sanctioned in every race. The two things that went against MS (who unfortunately for her would still have won without making her mistake) are that it was not a bunch sprint where there could have been an overlooked incident or mitigating circumstances explaining a deviation. Everything was focused on just those 2, Schreiber was riding beautifully balanced which made her sudden deviation look unnatural stroke as if it could have been in some part intentional whilst she was slowly drifting ever closer towards the barrier to a point that would have reached obstruction level. In her defence, it might have been the realisation she was heading towards that that made her react suddenly and caused the deviation involuntarily. In any case, congratulations to her for the ride of her life, in people’s minds she will be credited for it.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- Good boy Obviously doesn’t need that much help dealing with pressure, as some have suggested. Wiser (and humbler) than many far further along their careers. About offering him the moon, recently someone came up with an explanation of the downfall of a football great (either referring to Maradona or Portuguese Ronaldo) saying it was kind of normal after coming back from the moon, except that others, including some who actually did go to the moon like Armstrong (Neil in case anyone is too switched off to realise) didn’t go through any of the same motions after coming back. A lot of how you deal with situations has less to do with the situation than with your character.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
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RAI with some news: Tiberi to ride the Vuelta, Pogačar to return to the Giro next year which could start in Trieste and have same stages in Friuli before heading to Abruzzo. Beppe Conti, famous for his "indiscrezioni" also says 2025 Tour de France will include a visit to Italy
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