Giro d'Italia Il Giro d'Italia 2026: Who will win the Maglia Ciclamino? 1st rest day poll

[Netserk]

standings after the bulgarian grande partenza

 

[Berniece]

Looking good for Magnier, strong team and he’s fast himself.

 

[vappa]

Voted for Magnier, he's good enough to win bunch sprints and is also a better climber than Milan (hard to be worse really)

 

[Sciatic]

Vingegaard

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Milan probably wants to get a stage win before messing with the sprinters jersey, potentially giving Magnier the upper hand.
If Vinge goes bersek, he will be the major threat as Sciatic suggest.

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

This current crop of sprinters are very poor, Vingegaard should win it hopefully

 

[Netserk]

Vingegaard

dont think thats at all plausible with the points distribution across stages unless the three main sprinters dnf

just see 2024

 

[search]

yeah, usually GC guys score around 100pt at most in the Giro, which is more or less the same as a Tarozzi type of rider. Vingegaard looks unlikely.

 

[Berniece]

This current crop of sprinters are very poor, Vingegaard should win it hopefully

You rather have a GC rider win it instead of actual sprinters because they aren't named Philipsen or Merlier? Because I don't know which other sprinters you are missing here

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

You rather have a GC rider win it instead of actual sprinters because they aren't named Philipsen or Merlier? Because I don't know which other sprinters you are missing here

Well even those are not too great but better, girmay too.
But where is Mcewen, Cav, Ale-Jet, Freire , Cipo, Zabel? Then Sagan was the best for a long time.
It’s a poor time for sprinters I don’t think anyone can argue this

 

[Berniece]

Well even those are not too great but better, girmay too.
But where is Mcewen, Cav, Ale-Jet, Freire , Cipo, Zabel? Then Sagan was the best for a long time.
It’s a poor time for sprinters I don’t think anyone can argue this

I don't see Girmay as a top 5 sprinter when everyone is actually in form.

I also don't understand why you feel this is a bad time for sprinters. Why is it a bad time?

 

[Brullnux]

Well even those are not too great but better, girmay too.
But where is Mcewen, Cav, Ale-Jet, Freire , Cipo, Zabel? Then Sagan was the best for a long time.
It’s a poor time for sprinters I don’t think anyone can argue this

This is just nostalgia IMO, Milan/Merlier/Philipsen is a good set of top sprinters, and then Magnier and others coming up to steal a march on them.

I also don't think Sagan was ever the best sprinter, he was just way more versatile and so a green jersey nailed on candidate. The field is definitely better now than in the late 2010s

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

I don't see Girmay as a top 5 sprinter when everyone is actually in form.

I also don't understand why you feel this is a bad time for sprinters. Why is it a bad time?

I just don’t think they’re as good or consistent as the sprinters I mentioned , apart from Philipsen maybe. The ones in this giro are not so good

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

This is just nostalgia IMO, Milan/Merlier/Philipsen is a good set of top sprinters, and then Magnier and others coming up to steal a march on them.

I also don't think Sagan was ever the best sprinter, he was just way more versatile and so a green jersey nailed on candidate. The field is definitely better now than in the late 2010s

I think only Philipsen would be able to get near those older sprinters, but we’ll see about Magnier.
Doesn’t help they’re all so dull that they may as well be the same person, some fire and personality in my sprinter, please

 

[Brullnux]

I think only Philipsen would be able to get near those older sprinters, but we’ll see about Magnier.
Doesn’t help they’re all so dull that they may as well be the same person, some fire and personality in my sprinter, please

Philipsen is the least fast out of that set; Merlier is by a distance the fastest. Philipsen is the best classics man out of the three, but in terms of sprinting speed? Not anymore, that's for sure.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

yeah, usually GC guys score around 100pt at most in the Giro, which is more or less the same as a Tarozzi type of rider. Vingegaard looks unlikely.

With only one intermediate sprint per stage this year instead of the two per stage that we had for the two previous years the Tarozzi types are probably completely out of the picture now.

The Intermediate sprints are verging on becoming redundant in this race. Exceptions 1) potentially the last stage or 2) the points jersey sprinter contenders trying to get in the break on stages where they can't score at the finish but even then the potential reward is only 12 pts compared with 24 pts previously.

 

[RedheadDane]

But where are Mcewen, Cav, Ale-Jet, Freire , Cipo, Zabel?

Retired.
In fact, it's so long since Erik Zabel raced his son is retired too.

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

Retired.
In fact, it's so long since Erik Zabel raced his son is retired too.

Did Zabel have a grandson is the new question

 

[Ilmaestro99]

My vote is for Jonny. He is not the fastest, but he has a full focus on the jersey and a team of submissive domestiques to help him.

 

[BahamontesPhantom]

Philipsen is the least fast out of that set; Merlier is by a distance the fastest. Philipsen is the best classics man out of the three, but in terms of sprinting speed? Not anymore, that's for sure.

But did better at the big tours.
And forgetting Zabel or Mcewen, more recently we had Sagan, Kittel and Greipel, and Old Cavendish.
That was the last real era before this one and they were better no? Then before them it was even better with the above mentioned. It’s hard to say it’s a very good era for sprinters

 

[Netserk]

This is just nostalgia IMO, Milan/Merlier/Philipsen is a good set of top sprinters, and then Magnier and others coming up to steal a march on them.

I also don't think Sagan was ever the best sprinter, he was just way more versatile and so a green jersey nailed on candidate. The field is definitely better now than in the late 2010s

yeah i think we now have the strongest peloton of sprinters since cav kittel and greipel

 

[Netserk]

My vote is for Jonny. He is not the fastest, but he has a full focus on the jersey and a team of submissive domestiques to help him.

i think he is the fastest and if not for the cobbles i think hed have won yesterday despite launching early with magnier on his wheel

 

[Devil's Elbow]

yeah i think we now have the strongest peloton of sprinters since cav kittel and greipel

And Cav/Kittel/Greipel is a massive outlier, easily the strongest era for sprinters in history. Still think that Greipel would have had a shot at beating Merckx' TDF stage record had he been born a decade later (and not been stuck on the same team as Cav for the first three years of his prime), rather than ending his career on 'only' 11 Tour stage wins.

 

[Brullnux]

But did better at the big tours.
And forgetting Zabel or Mcewen, more recently we had Sagan, Kittel and Greipel, and Old Cavendish.
That was the last real era before this one and they were better no? Then before them it was even better with the above mentioned. It’s hard to say it’s a very good era for sprinters

That's only because Merlier was basically not allowed on Grand Tour teams until 2024. But he's ridden five grand tours and has seven stage wins; Philipsen had his 2023 magnum opus; and Milan has a green jersey, too (and two ciclamino jerseys).

I agree it's not Kittel/Greipel/Cav, but that was a decade ago, and this is easily the best since then.

It feels like you are judging sprinters by number of wins at the Tour which naturally lends itself to over-promoting eras with less depth or more sprint stages. Lest we forget in the 2000s Tours it was common to eight sprint stages in a row. I don't think McEwen or Zabel or Freire would have their records had they been up against better pure sprinters or had 2010s/2020s number of sprints (not to disparage them as riders, I think they were all better all rounders than Cavendish Kittel Milan Merlier).

 

[YavorD]

You rather have a GC rider win it instead of actual sprinters because they aren't named Philipsen or Merlier? Because I don't know which other sprinters you are missing here

Kooij is missing too (I know, healthy reasons) and he can be considered top 4 IMHO.
So you're arguably missing 3 of the 4 best sprinters in this race.