Who will win the 2020 Giro? (Rest day 1 edition)

[Forever The Best]

Joao Almeida or Wilco Kelderman. Depending on the cancellations and the race going all the way or not. Fuglsang may have a chance too if he uses the hills of week 2 well. Nibali's chances are stages 18 and 20 without cancellations/shortenings.

Voted for Kelderman, but that was before the positive cases for multiple riders.

Fuglsang lost time instead of gaining, so his chances are very small as well. Majka and Pozzovivo can be dark horses but their TTing is not that good so they need to be the strongest on climbs.

 

[Anybody_but..]

Unfortunately Kelderman will follow Matthews.
Almeida will not surprise us.
That will be finally the first time when Nibali cracks badly in GT.

So Majka will win this bike race.
The Forum will go mad.
Pozzo and Konrad 2nd and 3rd.

 

[glassmoon]

Vino.
(meaning the race will get cancelled throughout the middle or the field get ridiculously weak due to Covid or injuries)

 

[Rts123]

Agree it will be all shut down soon

Will it?
And even if it does , the leader will win?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

After today's stage I'm even more confident about Pozzovivo's chances than before.
He has a team working for him, he's ready to attack, and stage 17 and 18 run through Trentino, where he has made good results in the past.

I don't think he has a bag though. Maybe it's more of a wallet.

 

[tobydawq]

Will it?
And even if it does , the leader will win?

Probably not. To the first question.

 

[Climbing]

Most important day is next Monday, that is when bags will start getting filled!
Edit: I hope and feel we might go all the way to Milan (more hope than anything maybe)

 

[Red Rick]

After today's stage I'm even more confident about Pozzovivo's chances than before.
He has a team working for him, he's ready to attack, and stage 17 and 18 run through Trentino, where he has made good results in the past.

I don't think he has a bag though. Maybe it's more of a wallet.

With Pozzo I just have one question.

How?

 

[richwallone]

Kelderman, Almeida, Pozzo... That's my top three

 

[Red Rick]

I think Pozzovivo gets overrated on big climbs and underrated on shorter steeper stuff, he's very good anaerobically apart from a complete lack of acceleration.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

With Pozzo I just have one question.

How?

It could be due to a snowstorm on Stelvio, where he in some weird fashion is the only one not taking the wrong right turn on the descent leading the others over the Umbrail Pass. I'm not sure, but flea magic could be a higher power than shark voodoo


Being a fan of the old Navigare/Colnago/Bardiani teams, I would love to see him win, but it is highly unlikely to happen.
Getting to Milan without further crashes, would probably be a victory in itself at this point in his career.

 

[Escarabajo]

Unfortunately Kelderman will follow Matthews.
Almeida will not surprise us.
That will be finally the first time when Nibali cracks badly in GT.

So Majka will win this bike race.
The Forum will go mad.
Pozzo and Konrad 2nd and 3rd.

I fear for the health of the forum if Majka wins this race.

 

[Red Rick]

Nibali only cracks before winning

 

[Forever The Best]

This poll aged well. ( In before TGH and Hindley deliver Rasmussen 2005 or Lopez 2020 and Kelderman wins )

 

[gregrowlerson]

This poll aged well. ( In before TGH and Hindley deliver Rasmussen 2005 or Lopez 2020 and Kelderman wins )

Yep, incredible. Only the 2011 Vuelta had such surprising contenders from end of week one to end of week three?

Cobo = Hindley
Froome = Hart
Wiggins = Kelderman

Granted, Hart showed more than Froome (climbing with Sivakov in Tour Of Alps) prior to their breakthroughs, but to me it's all a weirdly similar comparison.

Nibali slipping away in both third weeks too.

 

[fbjim]

It's like the 2006 Tour except if Basso and Ullrich had gotten injured in stage 2 rather than being DNSed.

 

[gregrowlerson]

It's like the 2006 Tour except if Basso and Ullrich had gotten injured in stage 2 rather than being DNSed.

Yeah I have thought that. Except that Landis, Kloden, Sastre, even Oscar, probably had better credentials than these remaining riders.

 

[Seb]

Yep, incredible. Only the 2011 Vuelta had such surprising contenders from end of week one to end of week three?

Cobo = Hindley
Froome = Hart
Wiggins = Kelderman

Granted, Hart showed more than Froome (climbing with Sivakov in Tour Of Alps) prior to their breakthroughs, but to me it's all a weirdly similar comparison.

Nibali slipping away in both third weeks too.

Nice parallels. In 2011, originally, Cobo won, so maybe it should be

Cobo = Hart
Froome = Hindley

Could mean that in 2028 Hindley will be declared winner (and perhaps he's in for 4 TdF wins...)

Btw, German Wikipedia still has Cobo as the 2011 Combination Classification winner

 

[Forever The Best]

Nice parallels. In 2011, originally, Cobo won, so maybe it should be

Cobo = Hart
Froome = Hindley

Could mean that in 2028 Hindley will be declared winner (and perhaps he's in for 4 TdF wins...)

Btw, German Wikipedia still has Cobo as the 2011 Combination Classification winner

This is more accurate, as Hindley ( Froome ) was the teammate of the leader Kelderman ( Wiggins ) who cracked in the mountains.

 

[Red Rick]

Look at all these people being wrong.

HERMANN PERNSTEINER cracks me up lol

 

[Forever The Best]

I think as a whole we have to admit that our predictions are not that great. Zero votes for TGH ( excluding Vino ).
Except @Velolover2, who predicted that Tao will win the Giro in the stage 14 thread before the TT.

 

[Seb]

I think as a whole we have to admit that our predictions are not that great. Zero votes for TGH ( excluding Vino ).
Except @Velolover2, who predicted that Tao will win the Giro in the stage 14 thread before the TT.

@Velolover2


(Btw, I don't understand the meaning of Vino in this context)

Look at all these people being wrong.

HERMANN PERNSTEINER cracks me up lol

3 percent for Pernsteiner are

 

[Red Rick]

@Velolover2


(Btw, I don't understand the meaning of Vino in this context)

3 percent for Pernsteiner are

Vino is an ancient forum thing where the last option in a poll is nearly always Vino for some reason. It was there when I came here

 

[Seb]

... astonishing indeed Well, after all, he had an overall tour victory at the Tour of Azerbaidjan...
(sorry, I somehow couldn't submit the complete post at once)

 

[topcat]

Vino = something crazy and unexpected.
Vino never had a chance in the Tour, but he didn't believe that. He used to attack, get caught, get dropped, come back and attack again multiple times. Compare that to the stale stuff in the tour now. Vino the legend.