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Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 17: Bassano del Grappa – Madonna di Campiglio 203 km

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How would the riders from 2006-2018 who had to deal with peak Contador and Froome look at these races? Riders like Basso, Cadel , Menchov , Scarponi having to deal with brutal attacks and watching the last two years crap.

That's a bit unfair, IMO.

I wouldn't necessarily call the 2019 Giro "crap," maybe not a race for the ages...

But this Giro is looking comparatively weak because Thomas, SK, Yates and Evenpoel aren't in the race anymore, or didn't start, for health reasons; all the top GT riders aimed for the Tour; and already two full teams have pulled out, again for health reasons.

Putting a positive spin, we're seeing riders like Almeida, Ganna, Hart and Hindley step up, and teams like Sunweb and DQS showing that they are legit GT support teams.

This would have been a very different race in a "normal" year -- can you imagine Carapaz, Evenepoel, Nibali and Yates (and maybe Kruijswijk) slugging it out in May in the third week with these great stage profiles, along with one or two other emerging contenders?
 

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