Vingegaard seals Giro to add to Tour and Vuelta wins

Vingegaard seals Giro to add to Tour and Vuelta winsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Vingegaard has now won all three of cycling's Grand ToursByMatt WarwickBBC Sport senior journalistPublished5 minutes agoDenmark's Jonas Vingegaard has become the eighth rider to win all three of the men's Grand Tours by securing the Giro d'Italia in Rome.The Visma-Lease a Bike rider, 29, adds his Giro win to last year's Vuelta a Espana and the 2022 and 2023 Tours de France.Vingegaard's overall winning margin was a huge five minutes and 33 seconds over Austria's Felix Gall of Decathlon-CMA CGM, with Australia's Jai Hindley of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe in third, a further 63 seconds down.The three-week race came to a close in a largely processional stage, which then turned into a high-octane bunch sprint near Rome's Colosseum, won by Italy's Jonathan Milan, whose hugely powerful launch saw him win by a bike length over compatriot Giovanni Lonardi and France's Paul Penhoet.Vingegaard was the hot favourite to win this Italian tour, given his status as the world's second best all-round road cyclist behind the now legendary four-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar.The Dane, who kisses a sticker of his young family on his handlebars every time his crosses the line first, was expected to hold a winning margin of between four and seven minutes, such was his strength over every other rider in the peloton.The race was won on the mountain stages in the Italian Alps and Dolomites, with Vingegaard's strengths allowing him to methodically attack on the key stages with around 10km to go and tap out a pace that nobody could match.Vingegaard and Pogacar will both race at this year's Tour de France, which begins on 4 July.Pogacar is the strong favourite despite Vingegaard's resurgent form following a serious crash while on a descent in 2024 which saw him suffer a collapsed lung, a broken collarbone and several broken...