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

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What would you rate the 2025 Giro?


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5. Perfect example of 2011 Tour disease, where a great finale causes people to forget two weeks of absolute nothing where two weeks in people were wondering when the actual racing would start. Recency bias is strong, remembering the otherwise pretty good 2019 Tour being downvoted because of a lame finale caused by the weather as well. But stages 16 and 20 were truly great.

"Two weeks of nothing" has gotten a surreal meaning these days. I'll grant that it was the case in the 2011 Tour but it was absolutely not the case in this Giro if you watched the race instead of just looked at the profiles.
 
No, it's just that it's the equivalent of a football match that's 0-0 until the 89th minute because both sides are afraid of losing, then suddenly turns into a frenetic battle when both teams realise they really don't fancy a penalty shoot-out and it's helter-skelter for extra time. It's not wrong to be entertained by it and have enjoyed it and come out of the game buzzing from the action as both teams went all out to win in the final half hour, but it's not wrong to point out that the first 89 minutes were ass.

This is completely ignoring what he actually said in the post.

For some reason, you have decided to decree that the first two weeks were crap in this race. I certainly didn't find it so, and from what I can read in this thread I am fortunately not alone with this. It's frankly annoying that you just dismiss our opinions as recency biased as if everyone else but you has the memory of a goldfish.
 
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2014 a star above 2010 ...
2019 a star below 2023 ...

Yeah, it's hilarious. Also, what does a race have to do to get five glasses? And apparently a rider has to die for the race to only get one glass. So you basically have a scale of three grades. And then it just seems like rolling a three-sided die if such a thing could exist to determine where the given race should be put (although 2015, 2017 and 2018 are placed correctly).
 
Yeah, it's hilarious. Also, what does a race have to do to get five glasses? And apparently a rider has to die for the race to only get one glass. So you basically have a scale of three grades. And then it just seems like rolling a three-sided die if such a thing could exist to determine where the given race should be put (although 2015, 2017 and 2018 are placed correctly).
A die doesn't have to be a convex polyhedron.
 
I enjoyed the 2025 edition (even though I would have preferred Carapaz or del Toro to win over Yates). I am influenced by the fact that the 3 editions before this one were moribund. I think Netserk's revised ranking is about right. Now on to the serious questions:
Do you sound more intelligent if you complain about the route and give a low ranking?
Is ranking overly affected by your guy crashing out/not winning?
Is ranking of this edition too high because of the 3 toe curling editions before it?
Put me down for a 6.
 
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It does not?
It just has to be fair. Whatever works, works.

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I wasn't the biggest fan of the route either, but in the end it helped create (alongside the crashes and UAE tactics) an almost perfect scenario ahead of Finestre, where the gaps between the top 3/5 weren't massive, but still big enough for Carapaz and Yates to have to attack early in order to turn things around. A climb like that deserves to be decisive, unlike FEEDAAIIAAAA!!! in 2022 and Monte Lussari in '23, so I can live with the fact that it wasn't an all time great race beforehand, although it wasn't that bad either.

Del Toro got his breakthrough, Carapaz and, to a lesser degree, Bernal returned to the top, Tarling won his first GT stage (and was unlucky not to win a second), Pedersen did his thing, Verona finally won a GT stage, Fortunato found a role that suited him much better than being a top 15 GC guy, and Gee Geelivered the goods. 7/10.


I often make that misteka, too, so I won't comment.