The fifth victory can wait, everything goes according to script at Visma-Lease a Bike, where by magnanimous concession of the pink jersey another illustrious man of the yellow-clad powerhouse has been blessed by fortune, "a dream team" - to quote Jonas Vingegaard's own words.

Here it is, evoked by the Gazzetta's headline, "The Master's Voice", ready to echo again at Piancavallo, where the Danish rider's fifth triumph could arrive. The Corriere delves into the strategy: "Vingo delegated the task to his faithful American domestique Sepp Kuss — a superb climber — in an operation that threw his rivals into disarray, already tired and confused as they were".

This is a point also emphasized by Repubblica, bringing back the word "squire" in the article where Ciccone's anger finds considerable prominence. La Stampa has specialized in interviews and the interlocutor, like the theme around which much of the conversation revolves, is of considerable importance: it falls to Francesco Moser to leaf through his personal album of memories: "Me on a bike among the rubble of the '76 earthquake. Returning to Gemona will be special", recounts the Trentino champion, also retracing what cyclists experienced on September 15, 1976: "just a few months after the tragedy of May 6, the earth began to shake again. New tremors caught us at the Giro del Friuli. We were staying in Pordenone, at the Hotel Santina".

Ciccone in the blue jersey is one of the themes highlighted by Il Giornale, which praises Kuss's tactical acumen: "the American races with intelligence, doesn't disrupt their personal matters (Gee West and Storer to climb the standings) and with an attack a couple of kilometers from the finish goes to complete his collection of victories in all three Grand Tours".

Moreover, explains L'Équipe, at Visma-Lease a Bike the appetite grows with the racing with the hunt for the white jersey for Davide Piganzoli. Additionally: the chance to get all their riders on the Rome podium as winners of the team classification. Not bad.

GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT
THE MASTER'S VOICE
And at the end of yet another triumphant day, Jonas Vingegaard admitted it: "Yes, we are a dream team. We're doing great things, at the top. Basically everything is working out for us". In the big Dolomite stage, day nineteen of the Giro d'Italia, the Dane didn't just confirm his lead in the standings, now practically unassailable: only the double climb of Piancavallo remains, today, and then it will be apotheosis in Rome, given that Felix Gall is 4'03" back and the others even further behind. Vingegaard, ready to become the first from his country to win the Giro, didn't get his fifth stage victory but at the finish line — crossed in fifth position — he celebrated anyway because it was his teammate and friend Sepp Kuss who raised his arms. (Ciro Scognamiglio)

CORRIERE DELLA SERA
VINGEGAARD SENDS HIS DOMESTIQUE AND PREPARES THE ASSAULT ON PIANCAVALLO
Perfidious indeed, yesterday between Falzarego and Giau Jonas Vingegaard elaborated the cruelest way to humiliate his (so to speak) rivals for the pink jersey. Deeming a fifth consecutive climbing victory at Piani di Pezze as banal, Vingo delegated the task to his faithful American domestique Sepp Kuss — a superb climber — in an operation that threw his rivals into disarray, already tired and confused as they were. But what, doesn't he want to win? Kuss from Durango, Colorado, who had already received the 2023 Vuelta as a gift from the Dane, gratefully thanked him. (Marco Bonarrigo)

REPUBBLICA
KUSS THE SQUIRE ALSO TAKES THE DOLOMITES
CICCONE, WHAT ANGER
This time no mystery at Alleghe, Vingegaard resolved the Giro matter long ago and in the big stage didn't waste a pedal stroke. With a pink bandage around his neck, "I slept poorly, I woke up with an annoying little pain", the Dane sent his most faithful Sepp Kuss out hunting for glory, celebrated by his mother who arrived from Colorado. "We race as we want" those from Visma had said a few days ago. (Cosimo Cito)

LA STAMPA
"ME ON A BIKE AMONG THE RUBBLE OF THE '76 EARTHQUAKE, RETURNING TO GEMONA WILL BE SPECIAL"
Francesco Moser enjoys the air of the Belluno Dolomites at Alleghe, spectacular panorama and magic at the foot of Mount Civetta. The icon of Italian cycling, quick-witted and sharp observations, waits for the big stage finish near the line. Well-deserved rest for him, 74 years old, who has just finished the ride organized by "Mediolanum", a fixed event in the calendar of these three weeks on two wheels. Moser talks about exploits and races and attention shifts to the stage starting from Gemona which today marks 50 years since the 1976 earthquake. A departure in which Vingegaard will wear the jersey with the inscription "Friuli thanks and does not forget", the motto of rebirth. (Daniela Cotto)

IL GIORNALE
VINGEGAARD, THE MASTER LETS KUSS WIN
CICCONE RESISTS AND TAKES THE BLUE JERSEY
He is so superior that Jonas Vingegaard lets his lieutenants win. Lets them take something home too. He's not greedy, he doesn't need to be. He'll be able to feast today as well, at the last mountain finish of this Giro that essentially only needs to decide the two who will accompany him tomorrow evening on the Rome podium. Kuss, the American, races with intelligence, doesn't disrupt their personal matters (Gee West and Storer to climb the standings) and with an attack a couple of kilometers from the finish completes his collection of victories in all three Grand Tours. (Pier Augusto Stagi)

L'ÉQUIPE
AT VISMA THE CAKE IS DIVIDED
In recent days a little tune came from the Visma-Lease a Bike bus, similar to a hidden promise that everyone would have to reckon with. The hypothesis of offering American Sepp Kuss the opportunity to complete his trilogy of stage victories at the Tour, Vuelta and Giro. And then seek the white jersey for Davide Piganzoli. Additionally: the chance to get all their riders on the Rome podium as winners of the team classification. (Thomas Perotto)