Giro d'Italia Giro d’Italia 2025: Post-Race Rating Poll

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

I give this race a 8(maybe a little aggressive), best Giro in years and had fun racing throughout, overall one of the best conclusions I’ve enjoyed following cycling and Grand Tours.

 

[Red Rick]

6/10

 

[Peyroteo94]

I give this race a 9(maybe a little aggressive), best Giro in years and had fun racing throughout.

9 is too much. I gave a 6 because we had 3 epic stages (epic finale too). However weeks 1 and 2 were horrible, if we exclude the gravel stage. Route didn't help to be honest and the race could be way worse if we had Roglic and Thomas fighting for the win.

 

[Mako]

7/10.
But highly subjective, as Rogla crashed out.

So if we assume 10 as starting point
-1 for Rogla crashing out
-2 for the first week
+1 for the gravel stage
-2 for the second week
+2 for that baffling stage 20 shenanigans
-1 because I didn't like the outcome

 

[AmRacer]

Mad Mads, Wouts resurrection, Carapaz and Yates' redemption.
Must be a 7.

 

[Valv.Piti]

A solid 7. Race was raced aggressively for the most part and we have some good to great stages.. stage 11 and 15 were very nice for what they offered, stage 17 as well, but you could tell all these stages could have had way more potential if Vegni wanted to.

 

[hayneplane]

6 overall.

4 for the organisers but an 8 for the riders who I think in many cases made more from the parcours than could reasonably be expected.

I would certainly have enjoyed it more if Del Toro had seen it home to Rome in pink but the Yates redemption story is pure Hollywood as well.

Pedersen was hugely impressive and the gravel stage was magnificent.

The race really needed one more proper mountain stage with an MTF in the first two weeks and it was a shame that the race was shaped by too many crashes by GC contenders as well as the weather impacting the second ITT.

 

[Heston]

8

No proper mountain stage until week 3 was bad. Route was overall below par and we could have had an all time great Giro with a better route.

Race was raced very aggressively though. Ineos and Bernal were a joy to watch for the first 2 weeks.

Gravel stage was great.

Finestre always delivers and this was as epic as Froome 2018. Probably even more legendary due to the scenes between Carapaz and Del Toro.

I had fun watching overall.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Mad Mads, Wouts resurrection, Carapaz and Yates' redemption.
Must be a 7.

Not sure if it was a redemption for Carapaz.

 

[AmRacer]

Not sure if it was a redemption for Carapaz.

No, 😁

 

[QueenStagiaire]

6/10, very exciting on Stage 16 and 20 but I can‘t accept that someone who had one stage on the Giro where he was maybe the best on Stage 20 wins the race by 4 minutes. Maybe I should give it a good grade just for that stage alone and for finally feeling something in a GT GC fight again, but really if you can win like that it just shows that the route was not good. 3/10 for the route, 9.5/10 for the riders making the race. Recency bias with stage 20 will boost the ratings I guess

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Wanted to give it 5, changed it to 6 because looking back, the time trial and stage 11 were actually really good.
I feel in these polls a lot of people are always influenced by the last 3 days which by the nature of the backloaded Giro are always decent to really good.
But if looking at the whole races, for the majority of the first two weeks not a lot happened. Strade stage, ITT and Castelrainmondo in back to back to back succession were really good but outside of that we had way better Grande Departs in the past and the second weekend was just shocking. And I have nothing against Pedersen but him and his team being so good strangled a lot of these early stages.
Even the last week was basically down to stage 16 and Finestre.

It's been the best Giro since 2021 but that honestly says more about how terrible 2022, 23 and 24 were despite the Pogacar and Roglic fandoms trying to tell you otherwise.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Gave it an 7, definitely the best Giro since 2018, and we got a legendary stage to decide the race.
Unfortunately what prevents me from giving it a higher score was the route. This is even more frustrating given that the riders genuinely wanted to race aggressively but the terrain just didn't allow it. If we got a better route I think we could've had a really good edition.

 

[Escarabajo]

7. Too backloaded. GC should have been cleaner earlier. They like the tension of having many riders close until the end, but not having a very hard mountain in the second week is a huge error. Too many riders watching each other for 2 weeks.

 

[ashhutch1997]

No proper mountain stage until week 3 was bad. Route was overall below par and we could have had an all time great Giro with a better route.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Can't wait for Tim Cahill to rate this giro a 10 because Simon Yates put a few digs in on stage 20 and group 2 syndrome set in

 

[zlev11]

if you woulda told me before the race that the top 2 favorites wouldn't even make the finish and with such a poor route, i would've assumed this would be a flat out 1/10. but there were 3 really good stages (the only 3 well designed stages, imagine that) that bring it to a 5/10.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Had it down as a 9 but changed to a 10 after Illmaestro reminded me of those legendary few digs Simon Yates put in on stage 20, what digs they were.

 

[movingtarget]

Would have given an 8 for the first and third weeks until the Finestre clown show so gave it a 7. Not unhappy to see Yates finally get the elusive second GT win, happy to see Caruso still riding so well and Storer getting his top 10. Disappointment of the race obviously Bora. Pedersen was terrific, WVA had some great moments, expected more from Groves. Somehow UAE manufactured a loss even after Roglic had dropped out. They dominated GC for a large portion of the race and their team post mortem will be interesting. But I suppose cycling fans shouldn't bemoan this result too much as it's rare these days that a grand tour can still be won by four riders with one mountain stage to go !

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

9 is too much. I gave a 6 because we had 3 epic stages (epic finale too). However weeks 1 and 2 were horrible, if we exclude the gravel stage. Route didn't help to be honest and the race could be way worse if we had Roglic and Thomas fighting for the win.

Sat on it for a bit and lowered to an eight, was being a little hyperbolic lol.

 

[Hugh Januss]

It's a 9. Mads! Wout! Redemption for Bora when Roglic has to go home. Visma resurgent over UAE with 3 stage wins and the overall! Gee! Del Toro (for the most part). Entertainment wise Carapaz and Del Toro was a soap opera. And Carapaz's ill conceived attacks. Come on you guys this had it all!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

7

-2 for the route
-1 for the crashes that robbed us .

 

[BigCoward]

If we compare it to other grand tours in this era it's an 8, if we compare it to mythical grand tours through rose tinted glasses it's a 5-6.

 

[Cookster15]

If not for SYates's Finestre heroics would have given it a 6. Simon saved this Giro, gave it 8/10.

Like Froome's ride in 2018, this Giro will be defined by that ride. But we should also remember the final result was in the balance until that day with Isaac del Toro constantly defying our predictions.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

7, but much closer to a 8 than a 6. Best Giro since 2020 and a big step in the right direction after three horrible editions.

+ The best stages were pretty stellar (as was likely given the route)
+ There were probably 5 different riders who could all claim to be the biggest favourite at some point in the race, very few GTs have had that many twists
+ Racing was fairly aggressive throughout, only stage 3 and 19 underwhelmed a bit in this regard
+ Almost every stage from the first MTF onwards was entertaining (as was also likely given the route)
+ No aliens making a mockery of the race

- Not enough GC days in the first two weeks (as was also likely given the route)
- First six days were very slow
- Above average amount of big-name GC riders crashing out
- Zero tension for all three minor classifications

It was a pretty good Giro overall, somewhat reminiscent of (but also a bit weaker than) the 2020 edition. Makes for a good argument for quality over quantity (when ignoring routes that have both) in terms of GC stages because let's face it, it's highly unlikely that this race has as much drama on a stereotypical Vuelta route with 10 functionally unipuerto uphill finishes and not much else. The Finestre stage alone was worth all 10 of such stages combined for me.