Giro d'Italia 2025 spoilers

[mididoctors]

To get back on topic despite not being a froome fan his finestre ride was the best single day on GC I have ever seen . Yates may have gone faster but froome had a extra 45 odd km tacked on after sestriere ...all solo

 

[mididoctors]

This year's race was beautiful. And so was 2018 . Simon made them both

 

[Pblakeney]

GB has12 GT wins, 7 of which are Froome (T,G&V), 2 Yates S (V&G), and one each for Wiggins(T), Thomas(T) and TGH(G)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grand_Tour_general_classification_winners

Given the hoo ha when Wiggins won in 2012 it's not really surprising.

It is not surprising if you have been watching every year since 1983.

 

[Pblakeney]

This year's race was beautiful. And so was 2018 . Simon made them both

The Giro is usually my favourite GT.
The Tour is too organised and the Vuelta has all the Giro chaos, (mostly) without the scenery.

 

[stage hunter]

I also believe 7 years is the longest gap between winning your first and second GTs. He joins Fausto Coppi on that and Coppi’s was war related.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Would be more effective in a British winners of P-R discussion.

I seem to remember Pidders won the junior one

 

[No Ta Doctor]

To get back on topic despite not being a froome fan his finestre ride was the best single day on GC I have ever seen . Yates may have gone faster but froome had a extra 45 odd km tacked on after sestriere ...all solo

Top 5 GT stages - GC action edition, no particular order. They're stages where you'd text a mate to say "are you watching this?!"

Froome on Finestre - 2018
Yates on Finestre - 2025
Jonas and Roglic kick lumps out of Pog on the stage to Col du Granon, as Geraint watches on - 2022
Pog's Roglic destroying TT stage 20 - 2020
"And just who is that rider coming up behind, because it looks like STEPHEN ROCHE! IT'S STEPHEN ROCHE!" - La PLagne, 1987


To be fair, that last one is about five seconds that lives on in the memory and it would be far more difficult to replicate now with the amount of camera motos and time trackers. The excitement was based on the last reported time gap being 1'30" and then Roche suddenly appearing.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I seem to remember Pidders won the junior one

So did Lewis Askey and Geraint.
Tao came third once, Mads P was the winner.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

So did Lewis Askey and Geraint.
Tao came third once, Mads P was the winner.

Pidcock won the Espoirs edition as well (u23) - the only Britishian to have done so

 

[Lanterne Rogue]

Other stages that were definitely in "phone a friend" territory - Michael Rasmussen's unique approach to time trialling (possibly the greatest indication he was high as a kite on *something*), and Floyd Landis going on the rampage in 2006 fuelled by nothing but bread and water and, admittedly, enough injected testosterone to drop an elephant.

Neither were particular highpoints in cycling history, and both strained credibility and eyebrows even as they happened, but they definitely still stick in the mind.

 

[Legs]

Top 5 GT stages - GC action edition, no particular order. They're stages where you'd text a mate to say "are you watching this?!"

Froome on Finestre - 2018
Yates on Finestre - 2025
Jonas and Roglic kick lumps out of Pog on the stage to Col du Granon, as Geraint watches on - 2022
Pog's Roglic destroying TT stage 20 - 2020
"And just who is that rider coming up behind, because it looks like STEPHEN ROCHE! IT'S STEPHEN ROCHE!" - La PLagne, 1987


To be fair, that last one is about five seconds that lives on in the memory and it would be far more difficult to replicate now with the amount of camera motos and time trackers. The excitement was based on the last reported time gap being 1'30" and then Roche suddenly appearing.

2011, Andy Schleck long-range solo to Col du Galibier
2006, Floyd Landis gets a special kind of hangover
1996, Big Mig dropped on the road to Les Arcs, the end of an era

 

[Dogtrousers]

2013 Tour. Planned boring sprint stage. Echelons all over the place, GC ups and downs. Bertie putting time into Froome, Valverde plummeting down the GC and to cap it all, Cav beating Sagan in a reduced sprint final.

 

[mididoctors]

2011, Andy Schleck long-range solo to Col du Galibier
2006, Floyd Landis gets a special kind of hangover
1996, Big Mig dropped on the road to Les Arcs, the end of an era

Les arcs stage was rivetting ..bruyneel flying off the side of a mountain.... The yellow jersey packing on the Madeleine ... The lead GC group getting small so early ....driving rain .

 

[mididoctors]

2025 giro is super interesting. There really is arguments that at least 3 riders could have won

 

[mididoctors]

2006 was ridiculous. No one believed it on the day