lenric said:
When both Pinot and Bardet have 3 top-3 (including a GT win) we can chat about who's the best GT rider of them. Until that happens, sorry, but there's really not much to talk about other than fairy tales.
Both Pinot and Bardet have not done anything comparable to Aru so far in GTs.That doesn't mean they won't surpass him (which I honestly hope they do, since I expect someone other than Dumoulin has the capacity to challenge Quintana in the next years), but right now Aru is a proven GT podium contender. Pinot and Bardet aren't and this is a fact.
Fair enough. But I think that Pinot and Bardet will eventually get a much better career. Will they win a GT? I don't know. But I see Aru being given way less room to wiggle: he won one already. He's not a Ninja anymore.
Pinot has won and achieved so much more overall that to me, there's no need for a photo finish. Tibopino is way better. Just turned 27. The future will tell us.
When I posted the Giro Della Valle d'Aosta results, it was for a good Thibaut picture, then I dug: How can Quintana (and Aru) lose almost an hour in six stages and a few years later become so strong? This is not the place for this debate, but man...