The 2026 Giro d’Italia has entered its final week.Jonas Vingegaard lived up to his pre-race status as overwhelming favourite by finally overhauling Afonso Eulálio to take the pink jersey on Saturday, which he now holds by over two minutes.Behind him, Felix Gall looks set for his first Grand Tour podium by comfortably proving himself to be the second-best climber in the race, while the peloton successfully petitioned race organisers to neutralise Sunday’s stage into Milan on safety grounds.Despite the lack of overt drama, this year’s Giro is still filled with fascinating wrinkles — this is everything you need to know on the final rest day.Vingegaard in complete command of the maglia rosaFor the first half of this Giro, the impression created by Jonas Vingegaard was one of quiet competence.Never close to losing time through unforeseen issues — his Visma-Lease a Bike teammates deserve real credit for their positioning throughout the race — Vingegaard was the top rider at Blockhaus, the most significant climb of the opening week.He will also have been glad for Eulálio’s lengthy spell in the lead, allowing his team to somewhat rest their legs away from pink jersey duties, while it also meant he could skip the lengthy media commitments which come with leading a Grand Tour.That said, there were also strong signals that this was not a Vingegaard on top form. Gall was rapidly gaining on him towards the top of Blockhaus, while it was a surprise that Thymen Arensman beat him quite so convincingly in the stage-10 time trial.Recent days, however, have demonstrated that Vingegaard has been building form as he moves towards a career Grand Tour slam.Saturday’s stage to Pila, a long if shallow climb in Italy’s far north-west, was the sort of day built to show off Vingegaard’s explosivity, a major training focus since his crash in the Basque Itzulia two years ago.Vingegaard alone on the climb to Pila on Saturday, the day he moved into pink (Luca Bettini / AFP via Getty Images)With the pace impressively controlled by young Italian domestique Davide Piganzoli, after Tim Rex pushed himself well over the limit in service earlier in the day, Vingegaard rose from his saddle with just under five kilometres left to look at Gall’s condition. Satisfied by the answer, he continued the attack, flying up the mountain to win the stage by 49 seconds.Having cracked Eulálio lower on the slopes, Vingegaard ended up taking almost three minutes on the Portuguese rider to relegate the previous race leader to the white jersey, the Dane now leading the race overall by two minutes and 26 seconds.Gall set for podium as Hindley shows enduring classThough he finished second on both stages, maybe no rider outside sprint king Paul Magnier has enhanced their reputation more over the first two weeks of this Giro than Felix Gall.