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In a secret bunker, somewhere near the Dolomites, four Giro-obsessed writers met to discuss the upcoming race. Chris: OK, welcome all to our Giro roundtable! While we are doing this we are also watching the Giro d'Italia team presentation. Let's get down to it! Jens: It's more Tour de France-like. Chris: Definitely. Been a while. I always got the sense from the Buzzati book that the '49 Giro was more Tour-ish, but recently there seemed to be no resemblance. Jens: The biggest loss this year seems to be the media-montagnas with the short sharp finishes. The ones the TdF has been working so hard to duplicate. Conor: Well Chris, I don't think that it is very different at all. One big favourite, as there has been since , mountain stages that will be nearly cancelled, Astana here in numbers, a Sky guy who is unsupported and overrated, and backloaded climbs. Will : One difference: stage 8 will climb Alpe di Poti, the last 6 Kms unpaved. Very Giroistic. Chris: Yeah, some basic elements. I do think the French detour as the actual centerpiece is a bit unusual. Susie, have you ridden around that area? I'm curious how different the Italian side is from the French side, besides the food of course. I am looking forward to a day with good bread during this Giro, though. Jens: Having a finish at a French ski resort is a bit odd. Dipping in to France for the iconic climbs makes more sense but Risoul is a bit meh. Luckily the rest of those stages looks ace. Will: I think the bigger difference is ski station climb vs old historic roads crossing a mountain. Ski station roads almost by definition are less interesting, but they pay the bills. I think it is a sin that the Giro comes to the high Piemonte Alps and ignores Fauniera and Nivolet Two of the best climbs in Europe and instead visits France. Chris: As an American I can't fully appreciate the pettiness potential but I like to imagine French ski resorts with Tour finish potential being pretty dickish about where a Giro stage can go. But we can make you a good deal for Risoul. Well, I can manage that, but watch the snow Cheap publicity in the end. Will: I am still bitter about Serre Chevalier ski resort branding themselves with Galibier name the other year. There are no ski lifts up Galibier. Susie: It does seem like a bit of a waste of the awesome looking Colle dell'Agnelo climb to have it 60k before the finish, but I do like the look of the Risoul climb. The last few kilometres are pretty steep. That's gonna hurt on day Chris: How different do we need or want the Tour and Giro to be? Do we prefer the Giro be Tour-ish but slightly less so, or just a completely different animal? And is this becoming a moot point as the Tour becomes more Giro-ish? Personally I want whatever brings more of the Bigs to Italy. A really quirky race where Bradley Wiggins ends up in a ditch maybe doesn't get it done. Jens: I don't think it matters too much how close the races come in course design. Conor: Yeah. Unless something like having km of TT kilometres happened in both, I'd have no problem with the being very similar. Conor: How does the gap in field quality between the Giro and Tour stop growing? Because it, you know, is. Two weeks is not the answer. With the history and the summer date, the TdF will always be way way way above the Giro in prestige. Chris: No doubt about that. Maybe the best the Giro can do for a GC battle is to be there when a lot of really strong guys think the Tour is unattainable. Because we do have a very nice startlist this year. Susie: It doesn't seem like course qualities really have much effect on the field differences between the Tour and the Giro. I mean WHY? Conor: Good answer. Jens: After last year I think the next time Porte comes to the Giro is 'never. Chris: How does this year's GC list compare to some recent years? Maybe I'm getting overly excited but it seems like the young talent wave is stacking the quality here. Conor: Yes. They're all Susie: I like this Giro field. At the beginning of the season, it seemed like Nibali would be the prohibitive Giro favorite, but after his anonymous spring, I'm more optimistic for a wide open, unpredictable race. Chris: Totally. Conor: I'm Nibali doesn't look great, but he'll be fine. It's what he does. Jens: Startlist depends on how you view Nibali I suppose. If you consider him a true Top Big along side Froome and Contador then it is an above average list. If you think he is your normal Italian Giro specialist see Simoni then it is a standard list. Chris: He's a little unlike anyone I can think of. Jens: Like Susie says it looks like an open unpredictable race at this point, even if I still think Nibali will be as strong as we predicted before the season. Susie: I think part of the unpredictability is that everyone seems to be coming into the Giro a bit undercooked. Other than Landa with his Trentino win, and of course the race-winning machine that is Valverde, none of the contenders has shown much of anything this spring. Jens: I think 'Rio' is the answer to much of the undercooking. Many will be a superbly tasty 'medium rare' by the third week of this race. Conor: I want to talk about Ilnur Zakarin. Chris: Yes, let's look at the challengers. Conor, why are you so excited about Zakarin? Conor: Because, Chris, he is the rider on the most form here. He has been consistently good all season, and he stuck with Contador in Paris-Nice. I think he'll be climbing with the best throughout the Giro. He can also time-trial. While he probably won't win, he can definitely challenge for a podium place. Experience in Grand Tours? Schmexperience in Schmrand Tours. The question, to you and almost everyone, is 'why aren't you excited about Zakarin? He's not on my VDS team. Jens: I'm not yet convinced Zak is a three week guy. I'll believe it when I see it. Chris: Zakarin's been around a while, seems like if he were the next big thing we'd have noticed by now. But 26 is a good age to make the leap. Chris: I guess we have to deal with Valverde too. I can't put my finger on who he is as a grand tour rider. It used to be fun to expect him to just sort of fade a little each day, but that seems less the case now. He got better in the Tour last year as it went along. That said, he was second fiddle. I wonder if being the top guy is a mixed bag for him in a grand tour. It could be a bit draining. The guy has been a pandered star for all his career and you might expect him to be more diva-like but he has a way of hanging in and fighting back in stages where he is really struggling that is in no way diva-like. If that works as well for him here as it does in the Vuelta I don't know. Susie: Valverde is one of the biggest question marks in this field. Unfortunately for him, this Giro is short on the classics-type short, steep finishes that have often featured in recent Giri, but I still think the course is a pretty good one for him. The question is, can he hold his Ardennes-winning form for three more weeks? Conor: He's the guy that will be hurt by the Olympics. I don't think he'll win, or even look like winning, but he'll stick around. Jens: I'm more 'optimistic'about Valverde's chances. Either he is consistently good and then he will be a winning contender or he has some massive jour sans on one of the big mountain days and ends way down like th place. Chris: OK Landa then. I mean, sort of the perfect situation for him? But I wonder about new teams and contracts and pressure. He might be fine with all that but it strikes me as a much bigger wild card than Nibali's form. Susie: If I had to bet money on someone other than Nibali winning the Giro, it would probably be Landa. The time trials will likely hurt him, but it's not like any of these contenders are exactly world-class cronomen unless you think Doom is a GC threat here, which I don't. Conor: I have absolutely no clue what is making so many people predict he'll win this. He'll be there or thereabouts, but ahead of Nibali? Chris: The case for Landa is that he was third last year as a support rider and the guys who were first or second aren't here. Conor: He put three minutes into Aru on Aprica, the support rider bit is mostly irrelevant. And guys who weren't there then are now! Chris: Oh I know. You just asked why people are into him Susie: Sky is actually sending a decent though clearly second-string team to support Landa, but as he showed at last year's Giro, he can do a lot for himself even when he supposed to be the one providing the support. Chris: For my money I won't want to make any bold predictions until after Chianti the time trial, not the nice bottle I plan on opening later. He needs to not blow up that day before I'll get excited. Jens: I am getting the feeling that either I massively under-appreciated Landa's Giro last year or most people are overrating it. I am assuming the latter obviously. Landa's rides last year were in many ways the kind of rides 'you are allowed to because we don't rate you as a real favorite anyway'. Not all of it of course but it is always easier to be the unknown guy no one expects anything from than the guy with the weight of 'race favorite' and 'team leader' on his shoulders. Conor: I think you're on the money there. Chris: Well, he's Basque. And also he won the stage to Andorra in the Vuelta. His climbing seems like it might be real, but I agree we should hold off a bit more before professing certainty. Course is tailor made for him, form is ace. What will be a factor of course is how the team dynamics will work. With a favorite like Nibali he shouldn't get any freedom but who the heck knows with weirdo-Astana. Chris: Ah yes, you anticipated my next question! Every year we get an interloper on the podium. Landa last year, Aru in , Uran in , De Gendt in Who's this year's surprise? I'm on record as saying Johan Chaves will be in the mix. I just have a good feeling that he's about to show us he's actually very competent against the watch. Jens: I had forgotten Chavez. Maybe because he has been so anonymous so far in Count me in on seeing him as a podium contender. Conor: Can I say Zakarin? Jens: Sure, but given Romandie and all that, how big of a surprise would it be? Conor: In that case, I'll mention someone else for whom Jens doesn't need to make up any more jokes. Sergey Firsanov. Jens: Firsanov. Lord, give me strength. Chris: Well, Girbecco's ghost tabbed him as a sleeper pick, and he has some insider information. Susie: Hmm, maybe Amador. He was a surprise fourth place last year, so why not a surprise podium this year? Chris: Hey, here's one just for our gal on the street: who are you most looking forward to interviewing this year? Any Giro personalities you're hoping to meet? Jens: If she says Girbecco, I'm going to tear up. I miss the big guy. Damn you Lupo Wolfie! Conor: Ah no, Lupo Wolfie is so cute. Just look into his little eyes and, ugh, I can't even pretend. Susie: I'd love to interview Chaves! He's just such an appealing personality, and I'd love to hear about his integration into the very Aussie Orica team. Chris: Yep. Conor: He does it by phone. They all do, Paolini was repeating his exams when he was caught. Messed up his chemistry result. Jens: Will he miss prom because of the Giro? Chris: They can have the prom in L'Aquila. Susie: Uran is another appealing interview possibility. He was very charming and funny at the press conferences when he was in the maglia rosa two years ago, and I'd be interested to hear about his experiences with his various teams. Our first mention of Rigoberto Uran. I was wondering if anyone would bring him up. Chris: OK, we should wrap up. One last question -- Marcel Kittel, yes or no? Conor: Yes, then no. Chris: Presumably no after Bibione? Conor: That's the one. Chris: I like to imagine all the sprinters having their families meet them there with their dogs and just bail en masse. Jens: Marcel? Yes and yes. Chris: All the way to Torino? Jens: Kittel 21 stages? No way in inferno. Lefevere is going to pull him after stage 12 at the latest. Susie: Yes, the Venice airport would be a good place to look for him after the Bibione stage. No, we won't be seeing him in Torino. Chris: I'm going with Yes, no Unless it snows, then no. Chris: OK, thanks all! Last word to Susie Will: But we still need to debate Italian vs French beer! Susie: All I have to say is, when are the rest of you coming to see the Giro? Seriously, you won't believe how much fun it is. Chris: I need my kids to either graduate from high school or get heavily into Latin. Assuming the former, Giro here I come! Conor: Honestly, seems about right for me as well. Then I'll consider it. Hopefully in Filed under: Giro d'Italia. Podium Cafe Roundtable, Giro Edition! Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Conor: Oh no, our bunker's been infiltrated! Jens: Susie, you are going for most of the Italian stages. What are you most looking forward to on this course? Susie: I'll be there for most of the stages starting with stage 5 to Benevento. But all the mountain stages are always fun, assuming the weather doesn't get too much in the way. Will: Cronoscalata!! Great word. I am looking forward to stage 14 in the high Dolomites. On paper, the most beautiful stage imaginable. Share this story Twitter Facebook.

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Overall: 3. Based on 14 votes and 18 reviews. Show all 35 ratings. Username or email. Password Forgot password? Sign in with Facebook. Search resort. Risoul Lat Long: Resorts France Risoul Lat Long: Risoul Forecasts. Users Viewed Next: Advanced. Users Viewed Next: Live. Users Viewed Next: Maps. Users Viewed Next: Resort Info. Forecast Change Forecast Height. Choose Forecast. Visitor reviews for Risoul Ski Resort Click here to submit your own review of Risoul NOTE: Reviews may be edited by our content team for the purposes of ensuring accurate and relevant information. Risoul Ratings Overall: 3. Vote Snowsure: 4. Most useful. Top rated. Lowest rated. We did enjoy it. January 19, alun evans from United Kingdom Went to Risoul skiing for 2 days. We stayed below in Guillestre and traveled up to the resort.. Once there the skiing was excellent. Wouldn't stay in the resort but ok to travel there etc. Limited resort facilities, lots of chairs and unexceptional piste skiing. Fine for a week and if it snows. Mind blowing tree skiing amongst larches for those of you who know what that means. January 16, Ben Scales from France If you look at the piste map of Risoul you could be forgiven for thinking that it was a fairly poxy little resort. It is however, taking in Vars next door, deceptively big - not on the scale of eg Val d'Is? I would disagree with Ady's comment suggesting it is not a lot of bottle for experts. True, the piste skiing is, with the exception of a couple of tasty black runs, fairly intermediate, but off piste opportunities are spectacular if the snow is right. Even over new year the queuing is very light and there are also 'quick lines' at almost all lifts so you can bypass the masses if you don't mind making up the extra man on a chairlift of random punters. The drawbacks are as follows: 1. The lift system is basic, comprising button lifts and chairlifts with only one t? This is not in itself much of a problem, provided the weather is OK! Quite a lot of Italians ; Plus points: 1. Relaxed southern Alps atmosphere; few English. Easy access from Marseille: 3 hours, mostly of autoroute don't bother with Turin. Also winter flights to Marseille are cheap. Compared to the well-trodden Britpack resorts like Val d'Is? January 02, Ady Keeble from United Kingdom Some good varied ski-ing, plenty to keep most but the expert busy for a week, I enjoyed this resort. It has a real French feel about it, which is unusual for a purpose built resort, and the ski-in, ski-out convenience is a real bonus. November 20, Mauce from Netherlands I'm going for the first time to Risoul this januari and have been to several places in Austria before and last januari to Alpe d'Huez. I've heard a lot of good stories about Risoul and I am going to test it myself this winter I will let you know in januari! Greetings Mauce 0. The last disadvantage I'd like to mention is the long and time-consuming road to Risoul. From Holland Germany, Belgium and North-France alike the distance is very long and contains a mountain pass. Prepare for quite a drive. I can recommend this resort to both snowboarders m halfpipe and skiers, but it only gets real attractive for people with a bit of skiing experience. Like in the most French resorts the skiing area is large, but that also means the prices for skipasses are high. When you're not experienced that much you might only use a very small portion of the area. Overall, very good skiing to your front door , good weather conditions and the lack of waiting times will give you an excellent holiday! The runns are varied and tree lined which makes for great skiing. The resort staff on the whole don't speak English - as one person said to me 'Risoul is where the French go skiing' meaning that it is a very popular with people who know what they are talking about. So being English and going there ment that i did really feel that i was in France. Nightlife is too in your face, but if you go when there is a big compitition then you will have access to the music, lights and booze on the slopes too. I would recomend it for skiiers and snowboarders alike. Snowsure: 4. Variety of pistes: 3. Off-piste: 3. Scenery: 4. Access: 3. Public Transport: 3. Accommodation: 3. Cheap Rooms: 2. Luxury Hotels: 2. Childcare: 3. Snowmaking: 3. Snow Grooming: 3. Shelter: 4. Nearby options: 3. Regional rating: 3. Lift Staff: 3. Ski Schools: 3. Hire and Repairs: 4. Beginners: 4. Intermediates: 3. Advanced: 3. Snow Park: 3. Cross-country: 3. Mountain Dining: 3. Eating: 3. Apres-Ski: 3. Other Sports: 2. Entertainment: 3. Winter Walks: 3. Ski Pass Value: 3. Value National : 3. Value Global : 3.

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