Giro d'Italia Il Giro d'Italia 2025: Who will win? Pre-race poll.

[Red Rick]

Hindley has had a very funny career. Never seen as that great of a prospect until he suddenly almost wins the Giro. Opinions are then divided whether that was just due to the weird circumstances of 2020 or him actually being a future GT winner. 2021 happens and everyone agrees on the former just for him to come kinda out of nowhere to win the 2022 edition. People are now saying he is a top 5 GC rider and feel validated when he starts the 2023 Tour incredibly well, just for him to do nothing noteworthy in the almost two years since then. Evidently whenever we think we've figured the guy out he does the exact opposite of what we expect. So perhaps we really shouldn't underestimate him just because of two bad years.

2021 was his only year where he got absolutely no results tbh. Even last year he was on the Tirreno podium and this year he was 5th and 3rd on the MTF.

I think his floor is lower than some others, but his ceiling is at least there where you put him in the conversation to be the best of the rest if things fall his way. And as far as ceiling goes that's more than you can say than for guys like Mas or Landa at this point.

His closest parallel may actually be Kuss, though Kuss never straight up killed everyone like Hindley on Fedaia

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

*** it, I voted Vino @Netserk and if he ain't riding WVA will win this Giro

 

[veganrob]

Who are the Vino votes? @veganrob @GenericBoonenFan @Heston @Mayomaniac @Carrick-On-Seine @Wyndbrook

Gaudu, Storer, Hindley, Ciccone, Pidcock, Arensman, Quintana???

I don't even know. The field is just not exciting enough to care. I want anyone other than...