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"description": "Davide Piganzoli has been among the breakthrough riders of this year's Giro d'Italia, putting in massive rides in support of his Visma-Lease a Bike teammate Jonas Vingegaard on the mountain stages while still managing to finish highly enough in his own right to be sitting eighth overall with less than a week to race.\n\nOn Tuesday's stage 16, Piganzoli once again helped whittle down the group before Vingegaard's attack and once again finished highly on the day to bolster his case as a contender fo",
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"textContent": "Davide Piganzoli has been among the breakthrough riders of this year's Giro d'Italia, putting in massive rides in support of his Visma-Lease a Bike teammate Jonas Vingegaard on the mountain stages while still managing to finish highly enough in his own right to be sitting eighth overall with less than a week to race.\n\nOn Tuesday's stage 16, Piganzoli once again helped whittle down the group before Vingegaard's attack and once again finished highly on the day to bolster his case as a contender for the top 10 overall, but after another successful mountain stage, the 23-year-old Italian downplayed his personal ambitions in a post-race interview.\n\nAsked if he was dreaming of a specific GC position of his own, Piganzoli said, \"I don't have a dream, I just try to continue my race here the best I can. I really want to come into Rome with Jonas in pink.\"",
"title": "Piganzoli continues to downplay his own Giro ambitions",
"updatedAt": "2026-05-26T18:25:05.168Z"
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