The Yellow Jerkey for the Giro

Forget Wiggins for the Giro, This year there is a rumor that the Yellow Jerkey himself will be making an appearance, albeit the last 3 days following it around the mountainous regions of the north and hopefully in Brescia to see the finish. Blagged a couple of days in an apartment on Lake Garda from a good Italian friend, and I intend to be doing a bit of on the spot reporting and taking some shots - CANNOT WAIT, going to awesome.

Wiggins is hot favourite, but he's coming into it with little evidence of "form" unlike 2012. The Italians bemoaned the lack of "romance" about the way he won the TDF last year, hopefully he can get them on side with a show of his new dynamic bursts of speed he's been working on. For the more "romantic" of selections, I'd like to see Vincenzo Nibali win it - on paper and doing the stats, Wiggo should beat him if he's in the same shape as last yeats TDF, but this is Nibali's home patch and the Italian won't roll over easily. Another home choice has got to be Ivan Basso, he reckons he's got another Maglia Rose in him. So who will prevail? the scientific and statistically superior SKY machine or a rider with the passion and desire required to perform against expectations.

Suggestions welcome....