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With his arrival at the finish at Circus Maximus in Rome, Jonas Vingegaard is officially the eighth rider in history to have won all three Grand Tours. The final day also brought a headline beyond the pink jersey: Lorena Wiebes was excluded from the race due to her bicycle being too light.
The Giro d'Italia 2026 is history. After Tagesspiegel reported that Jonas Vingegaard could celebrate his triumph in Rome, the Dane now stands alongside Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Felice Gimondi, Bernard Hinault, Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali and Chris Froome – as the eighth rider ever to have won the Tour de France, Vuelta a España and Giro d'Italia. The final stage to Rome ended with a mass sprint, which Italian Jonathan Milan won at Circus Maximus, as FAZ reports.
In the general classification, Felix Gall completed the best result by an Austrian in one of the three major stage races: the Tyrolean finished the Giro as second behind Vingegaard, as Neue Zürcher Zeitung notes. For Gall, it is a historic moment for Austrian cycling.
The sporting lustre of the final day was, however, tarnished by a disqualification. Lorena Wiebes, the winner of the first stage of the Giro Donne, was subsequently excluded from the race because her bicycle was 20 grammes below the prescribed minimum weight. Her team SD Worx criticised the penalty as disproportionately harsh, as The Guardian reports. Whilst compliance with equipment regulations is the responsibility of the teams, the debate over the severity of the sanction is likely to occupy the cycling world further.
Also in the background: Tadej Pogačar, Vingegaard's sharpest rival on the world rankings, could lose an important helper for the Tour de France according to Welt – a bus accident overshadows the title defender's preparation for the next Grand Tour duel with Vingegaard.
With the Giro victory, Vingegaard is writing cycling history. Two Tour de France titles, one Vuelta and now the Giro: in just a few years, the Dane has built a dominance that brings him into the discussion about the greatest riders of all time.
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