{"id":601934,"date":"2025-11-29T19:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601934\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:51:13","slug":"maybe-its-wiser-to-go-to-the-giro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601934\/","title":{"rendered":"“Maybe it\u2019s wiser to go to the Giro"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the debate framed as both a tactical reset and an opportunity for Vingegaard to broaden what he could achieve across his career, the question is whether the Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike leader is really better off ending his typical programme where everything is built around the Maillot Jaune.<\/p>\n

Across the men\u2019s peloton, the idea of top GC riders compiling a \u201ccareer list\u201d of objectives has become more common, and De Cauwer sees Vingegaard in exactly that phase. His remark that \u201cImagine it, he wins the Vuelta, Tour and the Giro… that would be incredible\u201d highlights how the Dane could deepen his legacy by breaking away from a Tour-first routine.<\/p>\n

The move would also place him on the same trajectory being considered by Remco Evenepoel<\/a>, who has openly entertained a return to the Italian race. But De Cauwer made clear that overlap between the two could become a strategic problem. \u201cIf one knows the other is there, they might think: oei, then my chances get a bit smaller,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the story of Remco: then maybe full on the Tour.\u201dAgainst the rising dominance of Tadej Pogacar<\/a>, both men are weighing up where their best opportunities really lie. And De Cauwer\u2019s assessment of the modern Tour de France was blunt: the race is becoming too selective, too extreme, and too heavily tilted towards the lightest climbers. \u201cFifty-four thousand metres of climbing in the Tour de France: that is just too much,\u201d he argued. \u201cThey keep making the races harder and harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

He even suggested the field itself has become skewed by the sheer difficulty. \u201cThe top 10 of the Tour is 1 metre 80 and weighs 65 kilos…\u201d he said, pointing out that entire nations risk being excluded by physiology alone. In his view, it is time for the UCI to establish clearer limits on how Grand Tour routes are designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the debate framed as both a tactical reset and an opportunity for Vingegaard to broaden what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,42456,31323,184848,16151,79,16152,180916,20680,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-601934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-giro-ditalia","10":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","11":"tag-jose-de-cauwer","12":"tag-remco-evenepoel","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tadej-pogacar","15":"tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","16":"tag-tour-de-france","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115634731930548915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}