Jonas Vingegaard

“Already wearing the blue King of the Mountains jersey, Vingegaard will be in pink for the first time in his career on Sunday and the Visma-Lease a Bike rider is hot favourite to stay on top of the pile until the peloton rolls into Rome at the end of the month.”

“Eulalio now leads race favourite Jonas Vingegaard by just 27 seconds, a lead that stood at around five minutes when he won last week's rain-lashed stage five.”

“Jonas Vingegaard won the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, edging ahead on a long, slow climb to Corno alle Scale and taking 40 seconds out of his deficit on leader Afonso Eulalio.”

“Jonas Vingegaard ignited his Giro d'Italia title bid on Friday with a brilliant stage seven victory on the formidable Blockhaus climb in the Apennines.”

“The Dane is now second in the general classification, 3min and 17sec behind Eulalio and 17sec clear of third-placed Gall.”

“Race favourite Jonas Vingegaard made his rivals sweat Saturday on stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia, a hilly 221km won by Guillermo Silva of Astana, who also took over the race lead.”

“Jonas Vingegaard will make his Giro d'Italia debut on Friday when he begins his bid to win both the Italian Grand Tour and the Tour De France in the same year, thus emulating his great rival Tadej Pogacar.”

“The 29-year-old, who rides for Visma-Lease a Bike, has won two prestigious stage races in Paris-Nice and the Tour of Catalonia this year and his powerful climbing abilities are ideally suited to a typically tough route over three weeks.”

“Jonas Vingegaard triumphed at the Tour of Catalonia on Sunday as he continued his strong start to the season, while Brady Gilmore sprinted to a surprise stage seven victory.”

“Vingegaard topped the general classification one minute 22 secs ahead of France's Lenny Martinez and a further eight seconds before German Florian Lipowitz.”