toolittle said:
Sprint
Cobbled Classics
Hilly classics
GC
TT
Previous dominators are past their prime. Who will be the king.
For Sprint and cobbled stone classics, new kings has been stepped up. I think all of us agree their authoity.
Hilly classics , GT GC and TT, who will be the new king ?
Sprint: Gaviria, Ewan, Groenewegen, although Kittel still has a few good years to come
Cobbled classics: Jasper Stuven, Gianni Moscon, Démare if the race isn't too hard
Hilly classics: Kwiatkowski, Alaphilippe, if he recovers well from his injury, Dylan Theuns, maybe Barguil, but it wouldn't surprise me if he solely focused on the tour the next couple of years, maybe Gaudu, but since he's French, he'll probably focus on French stage races too. If raced conservatively, Michael Matthews
TT: Dumoulin, Rohan Dennis, to a lesser extent Jungels, Küng, Durbridge and Roglic,
GT GC: Dumoulin, Landa, Quintana the first being the dominant TT-er with still good climbing abilities, the latter being the better climber. Also the Yates twins, Bardet, Barguil, Pinot, Aru. Still younger (and difficult to asses) Gaudu
Above all I hope that in the near future we will have a few GT's with proper blocks of proper mountains stages, balanced by decent length itt's where we can see an interesting battle between the tt'ers (Dumoulin, Jungels,...) and the climbers (Landa, Quintana).