Changing the narrative similarities of the Aosta Valley mountain stage, the result doesn't change. Veni, Vidi, Vingegaard: the Dane scores his third stage victory, claiming the symbol of leadership under the Pila finish line. For the Gazzetta, in a mood to pay homage to sovereigns..., "Long Live the King" is the headline that fits. Speaking about his new jersey, the man himself explains: "Yes, I dreamed of it. It's so special. Unique. When I think of how many children in Italy, and I'd say in the world, fantasize about wearing it even just for a few hours. That's why I'm happy". A Giro victory (the triple crown is already secured) that cannot be downplayed, even by someone who knows what it means to win the Tour twice.

Reading Corriere della Sera and Il Giornale, however, the Vingegaard of Pila is effectively described with a scalpel in hand. "The precision and composure of a surgeon engaged in a routine operation. The secret of an operating room is a team in harmony," writes Marco Bonarrigo, while Pier Augusto Stagi adds about the meticulousness of captain Bisma Lease a Bike: "If he weren't a cyclist, perhaps he would have become a doctor. On a bicycle, Jonas Vingegaard is truly surgical: he makes no mistakes. Precise as few others. He never lets himself get caught up in frenzy". From the hymn to the leader's timing, we move to a "Pink Revolution" (La Stampa) that hardly casts the good Eulalio in the role of a deposed sovereign. Across the Alps they headline "La prise du pouvoir", a seizure of power announced as much as you like but which, L'Équipe reminds us, also marked the swift transition from the blue jersey to the pink one. On the catwalk, like a young dandy, Jonas already parades with the summer collection, of which he knows all the nuances.

GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT
LONG LIVE THE KING
Thinking for hours to find the right words to explain the power and fascination of the pink jersey, and then discovering how it's enough to cross eyes with Jonas Vingegaard – who has just worn it for the first time in his life – to realize how special that jersey, that color, that sensation are. And listening to him: "Yes, I dreamed of it. It's so special. Unique. If I think of how many children in Italy, and I'd say in the world, fantasize about wearing it even just for a few hours. That's why I'm happy". The Dane knows what it means to be at the top of the world: he has won the Tour de France twice, beating the great Tadej Pogacar – the only one to have done so – he is the defending champion of the Vuelta. (Ciro Scognamiglio)

CORRIERE DELLA SERA
VINGO, THE PINK MOUNTAIN
Jonas Vingegaard took his first pink jersey 4,600 meters from the Pila finish line with the precision and composure of a surgeon engaged in a routine operation. The secret of an operating room is a team in harmony: the Belgian assistant Campenaerts prepared the patients/opponents in the first part of the climb, the American anesthetist Kuss sedated the leader Eulalio at the 10-kilometer mark, the Italian Piganzoli had the task of driving the scalpel into the others in progression. From the operation, however, only the surgeon Vingegaard came out very well, all the others are in reserved condition. (Marco Bonarrigo)

LA STAMPA
PINK REVOLUTION
It's perfect like a page of Mozart, the tactics of Visma Lease eBike, the Dutch team of Vingegaard, the master. The Dane, 29 years old, the star who arrived at the Giro d'Italia as favorite, devours the stage that goes from Aosta to Pila. With a team play that combines analysis and algorithms, the squad escorts him, shields him and leaves him alone 5.5 kilometers from the finish. It's the moment of attack. And captain Jonas in those minutes contains three pieces of magic in one: he's the king of the day, he strips the pink jersey from the shoulders of Portuguese Eulalio who has worn it for ten days, and he overturns the Giro. The May revolution is complete. (Daniela Cotto)

IL GIORNALE
FINALLY VINGEGAARD, THE SURGEON WEARS PINK
If he weren't a cyclist, perhaps he would have become a doctor. On a bicycle, Jonas Vingegaard is truly surgical: he makes no mistakes. Precise as few others. He never lets himself get caught up in frenzy. Steady nerves and swift legs, the rest follows naturally. He's not someone who worries about putting on a show, it's not in his nature, but it's a show to watch him come up from Pila as if he were going to get bread after a day's work. Despite the great heat – the first of the season – he doesn't even seem to sweat. (Pier Augusto Stagi)

L'ÉQUIPE
SEIZURE OF POWER
At this time of year, the Aosta Valley is a palette of colors, an ode to spring, a kaleidoscope in which the Giro riders are also revealed. Majestically standing at the foot of the immense snow-covered fields of Gran Paradiso, Monte Fallère and Punta del Trajo, facing the lush green of the late May forest, Jonas Vingegaard exchanged the blue jersey of best climber that he had worn until that moment with the pink jersey of leader, a jersey he had dreamed of and that he had worn for the first time the day before. (Thomas Perotto)

TUTTOSPORT
VINGEGAARD, WHAT A HAT-TRICK AND WEARS THE PINK JERSEY
Three out of three. In the first two weeks of the Giro d'Italia there have been three mountain finishes in which Jonas Vingegaard has always won. After Blockhaus and Corno alle Scale, the Danish rider of Visma-Lease a Bike triumphed also in the Aosta-Pila stage. The 29-year-old Jonas now wears a pink jersey that he will hardly lose. He has the merit of having snatched it from Portuguese Afonso Eulalio, delivering spectacle without going over the top. Yesterday Jonas beat the excellent Felix Gall by 49 seconds, third at 58 seconds was Jai Hindley who doesn't miss an opportunity to prove he is captain at Red Bull-Bora. (Alessandro Brambilla)

CORRIERE DELLO SPORT
JONAS'S BREAKTHROUGH
A record hat-trick. At the third call, the pink jersey arrives on the shoulders of the most anticipated man of the 109th Giro d'Italia. In the Aosta Valley mountain stage with 5 mountain prizes in just 133 kilometers, Jonas Vingegaard completes the work begun last weekend with the uphill finishes at Blockhaus and Corno alle Scale. With an irresistible acceleration 4.6 kilometers from the finish, he said goodbye to the group between two walls of crowd all for him and, taking advantage of the great work of his faithful domestiques Piganzoli and Kuss, he was able to kiss the photo of his family on the handlebars once more and then his wedding ring toward the sky, with the added awareness of having conquered the symbol of leadership that was still missing from his collection. (Alberto Dolfin)