Nicolas Roche at the start of the Giro's stage 3 in Holland. Paddy Power has given stickybottle a range of bets on him and Deignan in the Giro after we requested them (Photo: Sirotti)
With Nicolas Roche and Philip Deignan both having won Grand Tour stages - at the Vuelta – in the past it would not be unusual to see them taking a stage win at the Giro d'Italia.
They'll be working for Mikel Landa - Team Sky's leader – and that will restrict them greatly, of course.
But if he were to lose big time or Roche or Deignan were sent up the road to mark a breakaway or to be clear to help Landa on a particular climb, they could find themselves in a stage-winning move.
Bookmaker Paddy Power has issued odds on the likelihood of Roche or Deignan winning the race outright.
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And they will also offer odds daily on the Irish duo's chance of winning the following day’s stage. Those odds will only be set daily as the race progresses. They are not available for every stage right now.
Paddy Power rates Roche's chances of winning overall at 400/1 and Deignan is at 500/1.
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And so far the Irishmen have been between 250 and 400 to 1 to win any of the opening stages.
But aside from those bets on offer on Paddy Power's website, stickybottle got in contact with the bookmaker to see the odds it would offer on a variety of possible scenarios involving the two Irishmen.
The stand-out one for us is 66/1 on both riders winning a stage in the race. It probably won't happen, but it might.
And if the team stopped riding for Landa for any reason, you would have to fancy the Irish pair to take a stage.
Have a look at the betting below and let us know what you think.
Just to say, stickybottle has no commercial relationship whatever with Paddy Power. This piece is intended as a novelty item, not to encourage gambling.
The odds Paddy Power offered us on request
- Roche winning a stage at some point in the race – 9/2
- Deignan winning a stage at some point in the race – 10/1
- Odds on both winning stages at some point in the race – 66/1
- Roche finishing in the top 10 overall - 11/1
- Deignan finishing in the top 10 overall - 150/1
- Roche finishing in the top 20 overall - 9/4
- Odds on Deignan finishing in the top 20 overall – 20/1
Outright victory
- Vincenzo Nibali 11/8
- Mikel Landa 2/1
- Alejandro Valverde 06/1
- Rafal Majka 16/1
- Rigoberto Uran 18/1
- Tom Dumoulin 20/1
- Ilnur Zakarin 20/1
- Esteban Chaves 33/1
- Jakob Fuglsang 40/1
- Domenico Pozzovivo 50/1
- Steven Kruijswijk 66/1
- Ryder Hesjedal 66/1
- Andrey Amador 66/1
- Jean Christophe Peraud 125/1
- Michele Scarponi 150/1
- Carlos Betancur 150/1
- Rein Taaramae 200/1
- Tanel Kangert 200/1
- Mikel Nieve 200/1
- Jo Dombrowski 200/1
- Sergey Firsanov 200/1
- Alexandre Geniez 200/1
- David Lopez 250/1
- Davide Formolo 250/1
- Primoz Roglic 300/1
- Gianluca Brambilla 300/1
- Przemyslaw Niemiec 300/1
- Igor Anton 300/1
- Tim Wellens 300/1
- Bob Jungels 400/1
- Damiano Cunego 400/1
- Diego Ulissi 400/1
- Eros Capecchi 400/1
- Nicolas Roche 400/1
- Jose Herrada 500/1
- Sebastian Henao 500/1
- Philip Deignan 500/1
- Simone Petilli 500/1
- Darwin Atapuma 500/1
- Aleksey Rybalkin 500/1
- Francesco Bongiorno 500/1
- Giovanni Visconti 500/1
- Alexander Foliforov 500/1
- Ruben Fernandez 500/1
- Pawel Poljanski 500/1
- Fabian Cancellara 500/1
- Riccardo Zoidl 500/1
- Kanstantin Siutsou 500/1
- David De La Cruz 500/1
- Carlos Verona 500/1
- Alessandro De Marchi 500/1
- Matteo Montaguti 500/1
- Arnaud Courteille 500/1
- Stefano Pirazzi 500/1
- Hubert Dupont 500/1
- Jelle Vanendert 500/1
- Maxime Monfort 500/1
- Jesus Hernandez 500/1
- Marcel Wyss 500/1
- Daniel Martinez 500/1
- Simon Clarke 500/1
- Andre Cardoso 500/1
- Merhawi Kudus 500/1
- Giulio Ciccone 500/1
- Valerio Agnoli 500/1
- Guillaume Bonnafond 500/1
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