Giro d'Italia rosters take shape as Yates and Pellizzari confirmed for UAE, Red Bull

With just three days before the start of the 2026 Giro d'Italia, all but four teams have now confirmed rosters. The latest lineups underline that while injuries have reduced the GC field, Visma-Lease a Bike's Jonas Vingegaard is not on a glide path to the win. UAE Team Emirates-XRG and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe announced strong lineups for the first Grand Tour of the year. Adam Yates will lead UAE, hoping to make it back to back Yateses in pink after twin Simon's win last year. UAE backs him with a strong support squad including Jay Vine (himself an outside GC contender), Marc Soler and Jhonatan Narvaéz. At Red Bull, promising young climber Guilio Pellizzari will start his third Giro, coming off a tuneup win at the recent Tour of the Alps. He was sixth here last year and at the Vuelta a España. He'll co-lead the team with former Giro winner Jai Hindley. Other potential GC contenders include Decathlon-CMA CGM's Felix Gall, rated in the sports books as one of the fashionable challengers and Netcompany-Ineos' Egan Bernal. One of the few teams not yet announced? Visma, which is expected to back Vingegaard with former Vuelta a España winner Sepp Kuss, among others. We'll have a full stage-by-stage guide and contenders preview shortly.