Del Toro won't be back in Italy this year, but could someone emulate his breakthrough ride? (Image credit: Getty Images) When the Giro d'Italia gets underway this Friday, it's going to simultaneously have one big GC favourite, whose race it is to lose, but also a real air of unpredictability and openness. Somehow, both of those things can be true at once. The big favourite is, of course, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). But after him, the list of top contenders becomes a bit more shaky. With no João Almeida, no Richard Carapaz, no Simon Yates, no Isaac del Toro, there's not a group of five or 10 riders who are guaranteed to be in the overall battle on every mountain. Article continues below The other element that feeds into this Giro's unpredictability is simply that the Giro is always unpredictable. Just last year, we watched Del Toro – ostensibly a domestique for 2025's 'big favourite' Juan Ayuso – wear pink for two weeks and very, very nearly win the whole thing.…