Milano - Sanremo 2024, one day monument, March 16

[Lequack]

PS: Mostly copied from last year
You know this race. The oldest classic, the sprinter's classic, except when it's not. Will Pogacar, MVDP, Laporte, Ganna and other all rounders manager to drop the sprinters on the Poggior or not? Will Mohoric try on the descent again? Time will tell!

Notable all-rounder: Pogacar, MVDP, Girmay, Mohoric, Hirschi, McNulty, Laporte, Ganna, Pidcock, Kung
Notable sprinters: Philipsen, Kooij, Pedesen, Milan, Kristoff, Ewan, Demare

Milano-Sanremo 2024

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Startlist for Milano-Sanremo 2024

Competing teams and riders for Milano-Sanremo 2024. Top competitors are Alexander Kristoff, Tadej PogaÄar and Edvald Boasson Hagen.

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[Red Rick]

Have no fear. Good things Ganna happen

 

[tobydawq]

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Let's hope those tractors will not be too much in the way or flatten the hills.

 

[Netserk]

@mou sends his regards!

 

[Lequack]

This guy is already there

 

[Red Rick]

Looks like basically no wind in the finale on Saturday, unlike the tailwind of the previous 2 years.

 

[Lequack]

Here's an idea. They should resurface the Poggio into a cobbled climb.

 

[Netserk]

Here's an idea. They should resurface the Poggio into a cobbled climb.

No, only the descent.

 

[Potomac]

Thanks for the thread, @Lequack

 

[Potomac]

MVDP to repeat.

 

[topcat]

Are there monuments that last more than one day? Thanks for the thread Lequack.

 

[Potomac]

Are there monuments that last more than one day? ....

Beat me to it.

 

[Froome]

C'mon MV(D)P.

 

[Lequack]

Are there monuments that last more than one day? Thanks for the thread Lequack.

Not yet, but you never know. One day you wake up and O Gran Camino is a monument race.

 

[Sciatic]

Let's hope those tractors will not be too much in the way or flatten the hills.

Looks like they’re anticipating more farmer protests impacting the race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I hope Trek play it differently and make Milan and Pedersen pull the peloton for Declercq. However it's already a done deal that the race will be won after a long solo ride by Tonelli. UAE will push hard in the peloton, but they will lose out because Ulissi and Covi are useless riders for this race.

 

[Sciatic]

I hope Trek play it differently and make Milan and Pedersen pull the peloton for Declercq. However it's already a done deal that the race will be won after a long solo ride by Tonelli. UAE will push hard in the peloton, but they will lose out because Ulissi and Covi are useless riders for this race.

You don’t think they’d go with Pedersen as their leader?. He looked good climbing in P-N, though I haven’t checked on his past results in this race.
I rate him high for RvV this year.

 

[Volderke]

Let's hope those tractors will not be too much in the way or flatten the hills.

I read that as “el tractor” will be pulling until capo Berta 🙂

 

[Sciatic]

I read that as “el tractor” will be pulling until capo Berta 🙂

Awesome—indeed he might be if he’s in the race (haven’t checked all the Lineups yet)

 

[tobydawq]

I read that as “el tractor” will be pulling until capo Berta 🙂

Ha! Nice interpretation. I'm sure you'll be right.

 

[Didinho]

Trek can play cards in the final with Milan, Skuijns and Stuyven, and Pedersen will win a tactical solo.

 

[Poursuivant]

Pedersen to outsprint a small group. Pogacar to podium.

 

[Brullnux]

You don’t think they’d go with Pedersen as their leader?. He looked good climbing in P-R, though I haven’t checked on his past results in this race.
I rate him high for RvV this year.

Yeah I think Pedersen trying to follow wheels is surely their best bet?

 

[Brullnux]

Pogaĉar will win handily, by ca. 30s to one minute.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Interesting scenario for Pogacar, the Monument that really is the hardest to target. He can't really drop or outsprint Van Der Poel or even Ganna if he's in form, isn't anything special on the descents and going on the Cipressa would be suicide. Perhaps he could ride passively and hope someone like Wellens or Marc Hirschi can make the reduced bunch at the end with him then attack the last few k, but I think he needs snookers to win a race like this. If he reaches the final with Van Der Poel, he should not be in the wind at all.

Watch out for Jhonathan Narvaez as a 150/1 outsider, taken a step forward since last summer. has a serious sprint on him and matched Porte's record on Willunga Hill recently.