Who are the 10 favorites of the Giro d'Italia 2025?

Rome, 9 May 2025 - The runners at the start of Durres will 184, but not everyone will show up at the Giro d'Italia 2025 with the same credentials and ambitions: very few will be able to dream of fighting for the podium, or even for the much-coveted pink jersey.

The 10 favorites of the Giro d'Italia 2025

1) Primoz Roglic We start from the one who, in the absence of the reigning champion Tadej pogacar, is in fact the most recent winner of the 5 present in the startlist: Primois Roglic triumphed in 2023 after having already reached the podium in 2019. These were times when the Slovenian played with great success in the then Jumbo Visma, but the transition to the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe he left intact at least the feeling with the Return, already on the report 4 times higher with the last one signed in 2024. The German squadron in particular risks - so to speak - offering the race two very respectable plan Bs: Jay Hindley, winner in 2022, and Daniel Felipe Martinez, according to last year. Both will however show up at the start of Durres with the lieutenants' stripes: the central lighthouse will be Roglic which, between tough but perhaps not very tough climbs and the two time trials on the programme, will be able to count on a route very much in line with its qualities, recently highlighted by the victory of the Volta a Catalunya 2025. 2) Juan Ayuso In the home race, Juan Ayuso, scheduled for the end of March, came in second behind the Slovenian. The latter was born in 89, the standard-bearer of theUAE Team Emirates-XRG: if the clash between the two favourites is not also a generational clash, it will be very close to it. Ayuso, who had opened the season by winning the Tirreno-Adriatico 2025 (furthermore, to stay in Italy, Laigueglia Trophy 2025), this will be a debut at Giro d'Italia, but only with regard to the senior category: in 2021, instead, in the special race reserved for under-23, the Spaniard won by presenting himself to the cycling world as a budding talent. The same is said today of Isaac Del Toro, the winner of the Milan-Turin 2025 which will start from Durres with the stripes of a luxury gregarious of a team full of talent. 3) Adam Yates Unlike the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, in home UAE Team Emirates-XRG there is a two-headed government in force which includes Adam Yates, experience in power. Winner of the Tour of Oman 2025, the British will form together with Jay Vine e Brandon McNulty the old guard of the Emirati team, whose declared objective is to keep the victory at home: with whom, the path of the Giro d'Italia, beaten only once so far by Yachts (in 2017, with a ninth place on the scoresheet). 4) Antonio Tiberi Who knows if for Antonio Tiberi the label of heir weighs more Vincenzo Nibali or that of (perhaps) the only Italian capable of fighting for the podium of a Great Tour, and in particular the home one: the fact is that last year's fifth place (with the white jersey attached), despite a less than optimal physical condition, leaves us with great hope, as does a Bahrain Victorious totally at his service even in the people of Damian Caruso e bilbao hair, with the latter who should instead take care of the hunt for the stages. However, the unknowns are not lacking for the Lazio rider, a time trialist by specialty but capable of defending himself well when the road goes uphill (even if often only at his pace). We start from the usual worry of physical condition, tainted by the withdrawal from Tour of the Alps 2025, with an accompanying change of program in the preparation: the hope is that, once those problems have been resolved, Tiberi this time he also has the help of Lady Luck on his side to bring back to theItaly a podium that is missing from 2021 (signed by his teammate himself) Caruso). 5) Richard Carapaz In 2018 one of his numbers going up to Montevergine introduced him to the great cycling world, before the triumph of the following year: Richard Carapaz he wants to try again starting from the past. To be precise from a 2024 which has seen the Ecuadorian at good levels at Tour de France (for him a stage, the climbers' classification and the prize for combativeness) and then to the Return, even missing out on the podium. TheEF Education EasyPost It may not show up at the start with the quality of other teams, but it is the best carapaz, between climbs and time trials, has already shown that he can win alone. When obviously there is the leg of the golden days. 6) Egan Bernal Simple suggestion or real desire for rebirth? When in doubt, the Ineos Grenadiers also focuses strongly on Thymen Arensmann, fresh from second place at Tour of the Alps 2025 (with stage victory attached). The fact is that Egan Bernal, triumphant of the 2021, we want to try again to find that very strong feeling with the Line of Business and with theItaly then abruptly interrupted by the very serious accident during training January 2022. The ordeal has been long and complicated, but never like this time has there been the feeling that the light at the end of the tunnel is really close. 7) Simon Yates The memories of Simon yates al Giro d'Italia they are definitely more mixed-colored: in 2018 an important exploit, many days in the pink jersey before the collapse on Colle delle Finestre, curiously - snow permitting - also scheduled for this year. At the time the British driver paid half an hour to his compatriot, and future winner, Chris Froome: the redemption came at the end of the summer, with the victory of the 2018 lap and, at the level of Giro d'Italia, the partial one matured in 2021, with the third step of the podium. Since then for Yachts everything has changed: even the team, today a Visma-Lease a Bike that with Wout van aert e Olav Kooij will go hunting for stages. And perhaps with the same Yachts: unless the family challenge with the twin Adam and back on Colle delle Finestre, the 'scene of the crime', do not reawaken their pink ambitions. 8) Giulio Ciccone Runner from Grand Tours or from Classics? Never a podium in the first, a second place in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025 and a third place at Tour of Lombardy 2024 they seem to deliver an important verdict. Yet, Julius Ciccone, one who with the Giro d'Italia, Between Covid and injuries, he has an open account and a long absence 3 years, will not show up at the start of Durres just to try to win stages like, to stay at home Italy, they could do Filippo Zana e Marco Frigo. Then there are those who like Lorenzo Fortunato dream of reliving a day like the one in 2021 saw him triumph over Zoncolan: since then, few joys but also a great desire to meet again. 9) Mikel Landa The fresh renewal with the Soudal Quick Step up to 2026 should be celebrated with a prestigious result: perhaps a podium, already found at Giro d'Italia (always on the third step) in 2015 and in 2022. Mikel Landa uphill it has few equals, but it could pay a heavy price in the time trial: a discussion that can be extended to One Rubio (seventh a year ago), david gaudu, making its debut at Giro d'Italia, and Romain Bardet, instead at the last dance before presumably retiring after the Tour of the Dauphiné 2025, another heart race like ours. 10) Derek Gee With the lights (very) off, Derek Gee he dreams of the coup in pink already achieved by his compatriot Ryder Hesjedal since 2012. In words, the Canadian has confirmed several times that he will start from Durres with those uncovered ranking ambitions, practically without any specific preparation, in Tour de France 2024, finished in ninth place. The name is not one of the most high-sounding, but the generosity of the runner is not lacking.Israel-PremierTech, not by chance elected super combative at Giro d'Italia 2023, the year he entered the professional ranks. His peer Michael Storer he is perhaps less of a rouleur but even more of a climber, as demonstrated by his success at the recent Tour of the Alps 2025. In 2024 he closed the top 10, this year the Australian wants to raise the bar, but with a big unknown: what if the peak of form had come too early, precisely in the Tyrolean race at the end of April?

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