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Barguil did a superb Tour. If he had ridden the Tour to challenge the GC he certainly would have finished within the top 5 with a clear shot of a podium finish. He climbed on the level of Froome and Bardet.
It all depends on the parcours. Dumoulin is great in time trials and really good on 1 climb mountain stages. But he is more average on long and tough mountain stages. That's the terrain where Barguil flourishes. He is also from France which is pretty imporant. It all depends how ASO creates the next route. With respect to the success of Bardet, Barguil and Pinot in the mountains this year I expect as little time trial kilometres as this year but considerably more and harder mountain stages in order to give Bardet and Barguil a better shot. So definitely an anti Dumoulin parcours. Dumoulin can climb even long mountains very well nowadays but I really think that Barguil could be the better climber at 200 kilometre stages with 5000m of elevation difference. Dumoulin is more the type of rider that can produce amazing efforts over a time of 30 minutes but stamina is still a bit fragile even though he managed to win this Giro in an amazing way.
It all depends on the parcours. Dumoulin is great in time trials and really good on 1 climb mountain stages. But he is more average on long and tough mountain stages. That's the terrain where Barguil flourishes. He is also from France which is pretty imporant. It all depends how ASO creates the next route. With respect to the success of Bardet, Barguil and Pinot in the mountains this year I expect as little time trial kilometres as this year but considerably more and harder mountain stages in order to give Bardet and Barguil a better shot. So definitely an anti Dumoulin parcours. Dumoulin can climb even long mountains very well nowadays but I really think that Barguil could be the better climber at 200 kilometre stages with 5000m of elevation difference. Dumoulin is more the type of rider that can produce amazing efforts over a time of 30 minutes but stamina is still a bit fragile even though he managed to win this Giro in an amazing way.