These are not the best times for the Giro d’Italia
I admit that it was not until recently that I became aware of what awaits us in this Giro d’Italia.
Namely: with a unanimous favorite, as we have rarely witnessed, perhaps we will focus on other aspects of the race.
It is obvious that we are all thinking about Pogacar and when it will be good to finish this Giro d’Italia, but at the same time we ask ourselves very greedy questions in this situation, looking for what has happened to this race to go from being the best of the big three to falling. in the annual reissue of a test that would be expendable if it were not for the fact that he is still the winner of an entire Giro d’Italia.
With the last two editions bordering on yawning in much of the race, I’m not going to say that this Giro makes me lazy, but almost.
I’m sorry to be so honest, but the crowd is what it is, with the loss of Wout Van Aert, and the game he could have given, and The main opposition to Pogacar centered on two cyclists that I love very much, like Geraint and Bardet, plus what Dani Martínez, Cian Uijtdebroecks, who will have to justify the winter signing, Antonio Tiberi and someone else we don’t have, can give of themselves.
Of course, the Giro d’Italia payrolls have not been the best of the big three for a long time, nor has it needed them.
Only the heat and popular fervor that surrounds the race compensates for the fact that the first swords do not come.
The Giro d’Italia winners include almost all the great names in the history of this sport, but also, especially in more recent times, cyclists who have stepped on the podium or won, say Ryder Hesjedal or Tao Gegogheganwho apart from the final maglia rosa, have little else in their cycling record.
It is not a slight, they are legitimate winners, but we will agree that they are not the cyclists that would occur to us in a first pool.
Like what a rider I love like Stven Kruijswijk almost won eight years ago if it is not for Nibali’s final comeback.
Of course, that 2016 Giro is a perfect example of what I want to explain, it did not have the best participation, but it was a unique spectacle, an unforgettable race, the same one that put the Giro very, very high in our preferences.
Since then the race has had interesting moments but it has gone, little by little, to less, until hitting, I believe, bottom in the last two editions, decided very at the end because there are still organizers who believe that an even race is a spectacular race , when nothing could be further from the truth.
In these last Giros we have seen something that I believe is no longer fashion, but rather a worrying custom.
Great career peaks have lost relevance.
First of all, we no longer have stages like Mikel Nieve’s in 2011, marathon and very hard, nor magical chains that in the Dolomites have given us anthological days.
The great peaks, as I say, have asked for weight, I don’t know if by the organizer’s own choice or due to an issue of altitude, snow and the possibility that the stage will be canceled or shortened.
That Cortina stage, three years ago, which came to nothing due to the weather, was damaging, like that other one, from a year before, which was kilometer long and was shortened by the rain.
The Giro d’Italia played those days with mastery, many times it did not matter that the participation was not the best, because The race, the frame and the toughness compensated for the absence of the big names.
Today we have some big name and a route that in this edition reminds me a lot of the last two, with such poor results.
I hope I’m wrong, but This Giro does not come with the best of omensbeyond the fact that there is a favorite that almost everyone wants to see succeed.
2024-05-04 22:01:47
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