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SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy (AP) — Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard secured general victory within the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race on Sunday after profitable the 2 huge climbing levels.
Displaying robust early season type, the Danish rider with the Visma crew has now received each races he’s entered in 2024, after additionally taking the general title and profitable three of the 4 levels within the Gran Camino in Spain final month.
After profitable the sea-to-sea race, Vingegaard raised the enormous trophy formed like Neptune’s three-pronged trident.
“Neptune’s trident is likely one of the greatest and most iconic trophies in biking,” Vingegaard mentioned. “It’s good for an ex-fisherman like me.”
It was a robust response to Tadej Pogacar’s dominating win within the Strade Bianche final weekend. Pogacar completed second behind Vingegaard on the Tour the final two years after profitable biking’s greatest race in 2020 and 2021. The pair possible received’t race towards one another once more till this 12 months’s Tour begins in Florence, Italy, on June 29.
Whereas Pogacar has added the Giro d’Italia to his program for this season, Vingegaard continues to be centering his season across the Tour.
“I like racing in Italy,” Vingegaard mentioned. “I don’t rule out making an attempt to win the Giro sooner or later.”
Vingegaard completed 1 minute, 24 seconds forward of Spanish rider Juan Ayuso and 1:52 forward of Jai Hindley, the 2022 Giro champion from Australia.
Vingegaard received the fifth and sixth levels.
With American rider Matteo Jorgenson profitable the Paris-Nice stage race on Sunday, Visma turned the primary crew to win Paris-Good and the Tirreno-Adriatico in the identical 12 months.
Italian rider Jonathan Milan with Lidl-Trek received the seventh and ultimate Tirreno stage in a dash end for his second victory of the race after additionally taking the fourth leg. Alexander Kristoff and Davide Cimolai completed second and third, respectively.
Richard Carapaz, the Ecuadorean who received the 2019 Giro and gold on the Tokyo Olympics, deserted the race after a fall.
The following main race is the Milan-San Remo subsequent Saturday, though Vingegaard doesn’t plan to enter the single-day basic.
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