Giro d'Italia 2026 GC favourites | Heading into the final week, how good were our GC predictions?

Heading into the final week of the 2026 Giro d'Italia, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) is the general classification favourite on his Giro debut. Several pre-race contenders have already withdrawn, including João Almeida and Mikel Landa, with Richard Carapaz also reportedly absent. Simon Yates won the 2025 edition, and the article revisits pre-race GC predictions to assess their accuracy at this late stage of the race.