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This guy has published his methodology of comparing climbing performances using a predicted VAM vs actual VAM.
Then he plotted riders performances in the Giro this year over time and it generally showed most of the climbers performed at or close to pVAM earlier in the Giro and then drifted below the pVAM he'd calculated later in the race.
The actual winners VAMs all seem to be bob-on what is predicted using 2008-2012 rides as the model's start point.
and riders getting slower on final climbs vs pVAM as the Giro went on which is what you'd expect, except for Nibbles and Uran who are able to smash it on the last climb stg. 20 when everyone else was dying.