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James Moultrie

'Most important we win GC, it's not a goal to dominate' – Emulating Pogačar's all-conquering Giro d'Italia not a focus for Jonas Vingegaard with pink as priority

BLOCKHAUS, ITALY - MAY 15: Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike celebrates at podium as stage winner during the 109th Giro d'Italia 2026, Stage 7 a 244km stage from Formia to Blockhaus 1658m / #UCIWT / on May 15, 2026 in Blockhaus, Italy. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images).

Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar will forever be compared to each other as the two best GC riders of a generation, but as the Dane looks to do something at the Giro d'Italia that even his main rival hasn't yet done in his illustrious career – win all three Grand Tours – his Visma-Lease a Bike team have said there won't be any sense of trying to one-up the 2024 winner's dominant campaign.

Pogačar was all-conquering at his Giro debut, claiming pink with a win on stage 2 and holding it all the way until Rome with the biggest winning margin since 1965, nine minutes and fifty six seconds, taking six stages in total along the way.

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