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Well, there was only 1 other GT winner than Froome this year. So hmRuby United said:Call me crazy, but only Lopez will...
(I just checked last years poll and the only rider I chose then was Dumo. Sure enough, so far he is the only rider to have won a GT, so maybe it will be the same this year too)
Ruudz0r said:Poll gives a bit of a weird view, as you can vote for multiple guys but it adds up to 100%, so for example in reality more then 28% of the voters think Lopez will win a GT
Nick C. said:I voted for Lopez and Landa. Last year I probably voted for Pinot and Chavez. If the roles were reversed it is entirely possible that Poels would have won the Vuelta with Froome as his domestique.
That's not the best ITT of Purito, it's Chorges at the 2013 Tour where he was third only 10" behind Froome. In hilly route like this and those in Pais Vasco was pretty good, his problem was with the flat ones.jsem94 said:What's Chaves' best ever TT? Purito actually did this once:Valv.Piti said:Wait, worse than Purito? Hmm..jsem94 said:This for me. Don't really know if any of the others will ever be GT winners. We voted Chaves last year and he's great, but he's worse than Purito at TTs. Need to sort that out rapidly.Valv.Piti said:Lopez and Landani for me, Landa already next year in the Giro and Lopez somewhere around 2019.I'd say they are about equally good, lets not forget some of Purito's absolutely horrible time trials, especially that one in 2010 in the red jersey, I think in Salamanca. That was one for the comic books.
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And done well on very hilly Pais Vasco TTs too.
It is safe to assume that next year Giro will be won by a first timer. If Nibali decides to go to the Tour.Red Rick said:My guess would be that between 1 and 1.5 GTs are won by first-time winners every year.
2016 was the first year since 2005 without a debut winnerRed Rick said:My guess would be that between 1 and 1.5 GTs are won by first-time winners every year.
At the same time, 13 of the last 16 GTs have been won by 4 riders.Parker said:2016 was the first year since 2005 without a debut winnerRed Rick said:My guess would be that between 1 and 1.5 GTs are won by first-time winners every year.
The Horner Conundrum. There's a solid-but-not-special mountain domestique in a mid-range team somewhere just trying to get selected for the big races, who doesn't know it yet, but he's going to win the 2020 Giro.Zinoviev Letter said:As I said last year, the problem with these polls is that Vuelta wins (and occasionally but much less often Giro wins) can be nearly random. There are thirty or forty riders in the peloton who could get very lucky in a Vuelta, including all of the above.