A few days before the great departure of the Tour of Italy which will start from Dürres in Albania this Friday, Large traythe Podcast Bike of RMC Sport, wonders about the favorites of this Giro 2025, much more open than the last, dominated with the head and shoulders by the Ogre Tadej Pogacar.
“The program for 2025? I will choose the races where Tadej (Pogacar) will not be present.” In the heart of winter, Primoz Roglic had been of unparalleled candor when explaining his shopping choices. After his demonstration last year, Pogacar chose to embark on a harvest of classics, and in particular a breathtaking discovery of Paris-Roubaix, rather than returning to the scene of his overwhelming domination of last year, where the Slovenian had crushed the Giro without concession, with six stages victories.
Primoz Roglic has therefore jumped at the opportunity and will be the only “cador” to line up on this Giro 2025. And with the absences of Vingegaard and Evenepoel, the other two runners present on the podium of the last Tour de France, Roglic, already winner of the Giro two years ago and the Vuelta four times, will appear as the natural favorite General classification.
Roglic against Ayuso
But beware, because for the team of Large trayThe Podcast Bike of RMC Sport, Roglic plays Big: “He knew that Pogacar was not going to go there, so he said he was there and I have to win it ‘. But there if he starts to lose against the Pogacar teammates who are 21 years old, it will be very complicated for Primoz Roglic. So either he wins, or is the beginning of the end.”
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Because the great rival of Roglic on this Giro will always be a runner of the UAE Teamemirates team, in the person of Juan Ayuso, whose relations with his Slovenian leader are very cool. The young Spaniard even had to clarify the situation recently. And if Ayuso impressed at the start of the season, he experienced a great disillusionment, and it was against Roglic, at the Tour de Catalonia.
And the others? Listen to the Podcast, we’re talking about Egan Bernal and the two French, David Gaudu and Romain Bardet, who will play his last big tour.
