Milano - Sanremo 2024, one day monument, March 16

[Froome]

blasphemy! Mou said many times that this race wouldn’t tell us much about Pogs strength and that we should wait for Catalonia. He also said the team was too weak, which we saw on Cipressa.

No! No! He said first defeat of Pogacar would be on GP Quebec. The charlatan needs to explain why Pogacar could not do 8.5 w/kg on cipressa and Poggio! 😂

 

[Salvarani]

Pogacar has no strategy apart from "have 50 more watts than everyone else" and it showed today

Really funny my guy. You got him.

 

[Red Rick]

Yeah, too bad he didn't do that and then got disqualified so Pogi could win

He didn't have to deviate that much lol. He was moving naturally to his left but he then moved back to make way for Philipsen.

Organisers might have relegated him anyway to have Pog win tho

 

[Gigs_98]

Just want to mention that this is the second consecutive big one day race where Pogacar outsprints Pedersen for the final podium step.

 

[Andre]

Beautiful by Jasper!!!!

 

[Didinho]

Pogi is also overrated in a downhill. He’s good following wheels but not to stay in front. It doesn’t help if Pidcock and Mohoric are a couple seconds behind. Thought Mathieu would go over him and lead the descent, but he didn’t looked as explosive as last year. But still a massive effort in te last km.

Strong top 10. The expected riders.

 

[Escarabajo]

Pogacar has no strategy apart from "have 50 more watts than everyone else" and it showed today

In the Berta the group was imploding. That was a hard climb. I just don't get it. Who is the strategist for UAE?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Bugno's 25year speed record beaten today

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Pog saying they missed 10% on Cipressa and it was not hard enough

 

[Froome]

Kudos to Van der poel! He is a great teammate!

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

 

[Nick2413]

Epic finale. Not the Mano a Mano that was predicted ended up being thrilling all the way through the finish. Philip den had to be extremely strong to make it in the front group.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar has no strategy apart from "have 50 more watts than everyone else" and it showed today

Troll alert

 

[Valv.Piti]

What an absolute fraud team effort today by UAE

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So this time a sprinter wins! Teddy did attack twice and even got a small advantage before the top of Poggio but was caught by MVP and afterwards by a larger group (I don't think his descending was that good). Still sprinted for the 3rd place, which is some consolation prize. 5th in 2022, 4th in 2023, 3rd in 2024, he will win in 2026.

 

[ppanther92]

Pogacar has no strategy apart from "have 50 more watts than everyone else" and it showed today

I wonder what the strategy could have been though other than making it hard which the team failed at. He couldn't drop the others on the short 8% section of Poggio, so set up and did an attack that actually gapped everyone bar MvdP. So tactically played well.

In order of team tactics - I wonder if knowing you have a weak team, driving it from 50km out was wise, or maybe they should have waited all along for Cipressa. But easy in hindsight.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Matthews blew it by opening the door for Philipsen.

Pogacar absurdly strong.

Imo without Stuyven Pidcock could have won.

Sobrero tried something, but why didn't Bettiol? You can bank on your sprint in a group with Philipsen and Pedersen.

Ganna with a mechanical?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Mats pedersen has to be the biggest fraud in cycling?

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

No! No! He said first defeat of Pogacar would be on GP Quebec.

because he didn’t count San Remo. I think I’ve read 10 post were he mentioned that Pog likely wouldn’t win today, and it was one post about Quebec.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Pogi is also overrated in a downhill. He’s good following wheels but not to stay in front. It doesn’t help if Pidcock and Mohoric are a couple seconds behind. Thought Mathieu would go over him and lead the descent, but he didn’t looked as explosive as last year. But still a massive effort in te last km.

Strong top 10. The expected riders.

I don't think anyone overrates him on the downhill. It's well known that the downhill is not his strength.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Just want to mention that this is the second consecutive big one day race where Pogacar outsprints Pedersen for the final podium step.

Didn't help that Pedersen took a route that was 5 metres longer than anyone else's.

 

[glassmoon]

Didn't Lidl close the gap on Pidcock?

maybe last 5%

 

[DNP-Old]

No! No! He said first defeat of Pogacar would be on GP Quebec. The charlatan needs to explain why Pogacar could not do 8.5 w/kg on cipressa and Poggio! 😂

You try so hard to be mou, but you'll never be.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

No! No! He said first defeat of Pogacar would be on GP Quebec. The charlatan needs to explain why Pogacar could not do 8.5 w/kg on cipressa and Poggio! 😂

Mou is like the Bible, his word contradicts itself in places.

 

[meat puppet]

Philipsen with his first big win, but incredible how Pogačar still gets third among such fast riders.

A shame that UAE wasn't better.

Mou had it wrong, Tufts has upgraded his sprint