Milan San Remo, March 21, 2026, 298 km monument

[topcat]

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/milano-sanremo/2026/startlist

My first, my last, my everything.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Doesn‘t start in Milano, clearly unwatchable to me

 

[Red Rick]

It's finally Ganna happen

 

[canina82]

It's finally Ganna happen

Not in a million years.

 

[canina82]

I only pray for no crashes before Cipressa. There is a strong fight for positioning before we hit Cipressa. RVV and PR are the pinnacle of this sport and would be a shame to see Pogacar, MVP or Wout out of these classics due to injuries.

 

[Red Rick]

Not in a million years.

Luigi Ganna won Milano Sanremo in 1909.

So it already Ganna happened once before, only just over a percent of a percent of a million years ago

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'll give Ganna higher odds of winning this than the 0% I gave Küng ahead of Omloop. It won't be easy, but if he gets the sprint absolutely right or manages to exploit some hesitation in a smaller, it's not impossible either. It's not the most likely scenario, of course, but neither was what happened on Cipressa last year.

 

[tobydawq]

No Wellens, no Narváez. Drilling Cipressa like last year is going to be difficult but with Del Toro it's probably not impossible.

 

[Netserk]

all three were there last year , and one of them fell short to put it mildly

i think the best case is that he this year can move up like narvaez did and that vermeersch can do a wellens

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Could be the year for Alex aranburu. Cofidis must block the road on the cipressa. I believe Alex can hold pocagar wheel over the poggio and best him in the sprint.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Could be the year for Alex aranburu. Cofidis must block the road on the cipressa. I believe Alex can hold pocagar wheel over the poggio and best him in the sprint.

If Aranburu is still with Pogacar over the Poggio, and even accounting for him being a better than average descender, I would strongly expect that others, better sprinters than both Pogacar and Aranburu, will be there too.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If Aranburu is still with Pogacar over the Poggio, and even accounting for him being a better than average descender, I would strongly expect that others, better sprinters than both Pogacar and Aranburu, will be there too.

But if they haven't made sure it's impossible to cut corners, he will be more than ready to jump over the telephone booth, or where it used to be, to gain an advantage.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If Aranburu is still with Pogacar over the Poggio, and even accounting for him being a better than average descender, I would strongly expect that others, better sprinters than both Pogacar and Aranburu, will be there too.

I'm just trying desperately to think of scenarios that don't involve pocagar going on cipressa, MVDP being not strong enough to stay in his wheel, and then a peloton with 10 teams with a potential winner all looking to the others to chase.

Everyone needs to be in the best position possible for cipressa and then block the road. Cofidis, dsm, visma, Bahrain, lotto, quickstep, etc , they need to ride tempo, get some of the old guys to start telling jokes and stories, don't let UAE take the pace.

 

[Potomac]

No "one day" in the thread title?

We are losing our traditions.

 

[SafeBet]

I'm just trying desperately to think of scenarios that don't involve pocagar going on cipressa, MVDP being not strong enough to stay in his wheel, and then a peloton with 10 teams with a potential winner all looking to the others to chase.

Everyone needs to be in the best position possible for cipressa and then block the road. Cofidis, dsm, visma, Bahrain, lotto, quickstep, etc , they need to ride tempo, get some of the old guys to start telling jokes and stories, don't let UAE take the pace.

Challenge used to be climb Cipressa in under 9 minutes, now it is climb it in over 15 minutes.

 

[dazaau]

No "one day" in the thread title?

We are losing our traditions.

Thank you @topcat

 

[Potomac]

Last year before the race Inner Ring wrote a great piece on how Pogacar might win MSR.

Then on race day it seemed like UAE followed his script pretty closely.

I say do it again the same way.