Milano - Sanremo 2023, one day monument, March 18

[jaylew]

I wanted him to win least out of the 4. However, if 3 of the best time trailers in the world can't see its in their interests to work together, they don't deserve ***.

Looked like they mostly did. They were all on their knees.

 

[tobydawq]

Lol, 7 of the top 8 from last year was in the top 9 today.

And number 10 was the winner from 2021.

 

[Salvarani]

Pogacar was a true pancake today. Did not want to pull with the others and deservedly lost the podium.

Lol. Such a blatant hate comment. Not surprised if this is an alt account.

 

[Poursuivant]

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[Peyroteo94]

Yeah...that was true last year for sure... <rolleyes>

3-1 in monuments. These are races that matters the most

 

[Elos Anjos]

Insert "ReMcO would have won" meme here.

 

[Divergence]

I mean, Ganna also didn't do too many proper pulls, that has to be said.

Nice one for Pippo, now I wanna see him in G-W and Paris-Roubaix. Dare I say that Pidcock not racing this one after his Tirreno crash was good for him, since the team didn't have him work for anyone?

Well Pippo was dong all he could on the descend. Pog was in the wheel not wanting to pull. WvA gave it his all on the descend to catch MvdP. On the flat Pog took 2-3 veeery soft 1sec pulls and destroyed the impetus in the chase. So, well deserved for all the podium finishers and also well deserved for the one who is not on the podium. Congrats to MvdP, great ride.

 

[Põhja Konn]

Textbook win by VDP, but one also has to have a special pair of legs on him to successfully pull off this kind of attack against a group of WVA, Pogacar and Ganna. In hindsight, on the Poggio Wellens and Pog ended up doing a perfect lead out for VDP.

 

[Salvarani]

Insert "ReMcO would have won" meme here.

He might have been able to follow Ganna on the descent tbf.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Great tactics of Belgian Pozzato to lose the race and maintain his reputation

When you say that I always think Belgian Poulidor but there was no second place today.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Ganna looked like he was the second strongest on the Poggio. Maybe he could have tried to follow MVDP instead of staying on Pogacar's wheel.

 

[Netserk]

With his insane acceleration, he has the luxury that he can wait longer than others before he attacks. Superb use of Kragh, and then Pogi had to force it on the steepest spot. Given the legs he had, Van der Poel also rode really well here last year. He reads these finishes and understands his path to victory far better than Van Aert does.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Søren Kragh scored four times more UCI points today than fellow Dane Magnus Cort got in total at his highly succesful participation in Portugal. I guess that's part of the explanation why Cort so rarely gets into top 100 - he doesn't get enough top 10 results in the big races.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Great tactics of Belgian Pozzato to lose the race and maintain his reputation

Yeah, he clearly lost because of tactics

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So the longest race of the year was won by a guy who is World Champion in events of about 27km, followed by a guy who gets his most important wins in 4km competitions, followed by another whose forte is in races of no more than an hour.

Tell me again about how the sport is getting more specialised.

 

[Red Rick]

With his insane acceleration, he has the luxury that he can wait longer than others before he attacks. Superb use of Kragh, and then Pogi had to force it on the steepest spot. Given the legs he had, Van der Poel also rode really well here last year. He reads these finishes and understands his path to victory far better than Van Aert does.

Can we even be sure Van Aert had the legs? He got washmachined hard in that hairpin where Wellens launched, but he really didn't close the gaps that easily.

 

[Mayomaniac]

But yeah, interesting to see what Ganna will do in the cobbled classics. He's supposed to ride E3, G-W, DDV and P-R. I see him working for others in E3 and DDV, but in the other races he should be allowed to go for it.

 

[Riek s]

So the longest race of the year was won by a guy who is World Champion in events of about 27km, followed by a guy who gets his most important wins in 4km competitions, followed by another whose forte is in races of no more than an hour.

Tell me again about how the sport is getting more specialised?

isn't this race only about 30km interesting? so that fits

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

3-1 in monuments. These are races that matters the most

Wout lost some fitness when he was ill. There's still much time before the ones that really matter, so we'll see you in April. But yeah VdP finally wins one Wout already won.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Can we even be sure Van Aert had the legs? He got washmachined hard in that hairpin where Wellens launched, but he really didn't close the gaps that easily.

IMO he looked the weakest of the top 4 on the Poggio.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Van Aert gave up a bit having to come back at the start of the Poggio too

 

[woodburn]

Nice top 10 by Powless. Really stacking some goodresults.

Sixth overall in Paris Nice
Third overall at Haut Var
First overall in Etoile de Bessèges
First place in Grand Prix Marseille

 

[Big Doopie]

Yeah, he clearly lost because of tactics

He kinda did.

He did all the work to latch back on to Pog. Pulled VDP back only to watch him sprint away.

 

[Divergence]

Lol. Such a blatant hate comment. Not surprised if this is an alt account.

It is not a hate comment. Sure, I do not like him winning all the time, so I am happy he did not win today. But the truth is he looked weak today by his standards, which also makes me happy.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Wout lost some fitness when he was ill. There's still much time before the ones that really matter, so we'll see you in April. But yeah VdP finally wins one Wout already won.

Let's not pretend MSR doesn't matter. This is a huge blow to WVA after the loss in cyclocross WC