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Primoz Roglic against Juan Ayuso, experience against youth: this is the stake of the Giro of Italia 2025 which starts on Friday.
Only one Swiss runner will be there: the Jurassic Yannis Voirard, retained by the Swedor Swiss training which benefits from a “Wildcard”.
Leader of the Red Bull-Bora team, Primoz Roglic imitates his compatriot Tadej Pogacar by doubling Giro and Tour de France the same year. But there is a major difference: if it can reasonably aim for a second success on Italian roads, Roglic will need failures of the stars Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard or Remco Evenepoel to hope to triumph over the big loop this summer.
On the Giro, on the other hand, in the absence of the three gifted peloton, the Maglia Rosa inevitably attributes the lusts much more. winner in 2023, Roglic is the logical favorite. According to bookmakers, the danger for him will come from the UAE team, whose workforce remains impressive despite the absence of the outgoing winner Tadej Pogacar.
-At 22, Juan Ayuso is the leader announced at UAE. The Spaniard targets a first final success in a big tour. But, if he failed, his team will not lack assets: Jay Vine, brilliant on the Tour de Romandie, or Adam Yates are also likely to lead the hard life to Primoz Roglic.
The Tour of Catalonia, at the end of March, proposed a first confrontation which turned to the advantage of the Slovenian veteran. But Ayuso has everything you need to triumph. Winner of Tirreno-Adriatico this season, he is ripe for a first coronation in a big round, after having finished 3rd in the Tour of Spain 2022 at the age of 19.
Voirard: Everything to Storer
Marc Hirschi not finally having been retained by Tudor for this 108th Giro of Italia, who will start on Friday in Albania and will end on June 1 in Rome, only one Helvet will be in the running. Yannis Voisard leaves in the unknown since he will play his first big round at 26, and therefore his first race by stage over three weeks.
The Jurassic climber has only one goal: to support the leader of his team as long as possible, the Australian Michael Storer, in the mountain stages. Storer displays certain ambitions to the general, he who recently won the difficult Tour des Alpes after winning a stage in Paris-Nice.
This Giro, which will also go through Slovenia and will cross the Vatican during the final stage, promises to be mountainous and difficult. The runners will notably have to swallow the penultimate day the last non-asphalted kilometers from the Col du Finestre (2178 m) before the final ascent to Sestrières. Two individual time trials will also dig the differences.
