Reports in Italy state Jonas Vingegaard is set for Giro d'Italia debut with hopes of Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar also
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Never before in his career has Jonas Vingegaard attempted the Giro d'Italia. In 2025 though, that seems set to change if the latest reports in Italy are to believed. With hopes that both Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar could also return to the Maglia Rosa fight, it could be the most eagerly anticipated Giro in a long, long time.
Italian news outlet Quotidiano di Puglia reports the current likelihood of the Grand Tour 'Big 4' to compete in the 2025 Giro d'Italia. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike leader Vingegaard, twice a Tour de France winner and runner-up at the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, is described as the following. "Vingegaard, who has never won the race, should compete on the roads of the Giro," the report states.
Remco Evenepoel
As mentioned, the Dane isn't the only name mentioned. Soudal - Quick-Step leader Remco Evenepoel has noted unfinished business with the Giro having being forced to depart whilst in the Maglia Rosa in 2023 due to a positive Covid-19 test and crashing out of his Grand Tour debut in Italy back in 2021. That unfinished business doesn't look like being resolved in 2025 though as the Belgian continues to target the Tour de France.
Evenepoel was in the Maglia Rosa in 2023 before abandoning due to Covid
Primoz Roglic
That 2023 Giro d'Italia was eventually narrowly won by Primoz Roglic, finishing just 14 seconds ahead of Geraint Thomas in the final general classification. Now, having moved from Jumbo-Visma to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe and added a record equalling 4th Vuelta a Espana title to his palmares, could the Slovenian be set to return to Italy? "Primoz Roglic could be at the starting line," states the Quotidiano di Puglia report hopefully.
Roglic took the overall victory at the 2023 Giro d'Italia
Tadej Pogacar
Last but by no means least, the reigning Giro d'Italia champion is also discussed. Pogacar kicked off his 2024 of dominance in Italy at Strade Bianche earlier this year before moving onto the Giro, winning six stages and leading the GC by just short of ten minutes. Having since added a third Tour de France title, the Rainbow Jersey and most recently another Il Lombardia success on Italian roads, the UAE Team Emirates leader isn't ruled out of a return.
"World champion and endless trophy holder Tadej Pogacar, fresh from winning his fourth consecutive Lombardia (only Fausto Coppi had managed it before him), who has managed to win two of the three major stage races on the calendar this year and also wore the iris a few weeks ago in Zurich, has not yet decided," notes the report. "After a record-breaking 2024 - he is the first cyclist in history to win two grand tours, the rainbow jersey and two monuments in the same season - it is also difficult to make predictions about the Slovenian's commitments next year. The possibility that he might decide to return to Italy, therefore, cannot be ruled out entirely."
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