Milano - Sanremo 2024, one day monument, March 16

[Kangaridoo]

People saying a sprinter won... Philipsen is much more than that by now. Not comparable in any way to the run of actual sprinter wins up until Démare.

Demare never actually won MSR though

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Pogi is also overrated in a downhill.

I doubt if anyone has ever rated him in descending

 

[Netserk]

Teddy saying it wasn't hard enough for him to win...this is getting farcical...

He needs Colombo's train.

 

[Samamba]

What's the point of watching this sport everytime you get excited and the villain always wins , I hate sprinters , I'm no longer watching cycling after this. That guy in the Pogacar thread was the real charlatan all along!!!!

I love you

 

[dazaau]

You have to give it to Pog. Out sprinting a lot of sprinters for a podium.

 

[tobydawq]

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

"He was moving naturally to his left", what does that even mean, lol? So because he had to overtake Stuyven on the left, he has carte blanche to continue diagonally all the way across the road?

 

[Samamba]

Most surprising thing today was Bettiol not dropping on the Capo Berta already after having a superday earlier in the week.

 

[Red Rick]

Pogacar’s weakness downhill has been talked about a lot the last few years to the point where I’d say it’s actually overstated quite often. Like he’s no Pidcock or Mohoric but he’s also not that bad.

He's solid, but in Milano Sanremo the guys he's most likely to have to hold off on the Poggio descent are better than him.

 

[Froome]

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

Pogacar was very smart in the second attack. He did everything he could.

 

[Salvarani]

Well, he went off the road in the TdF in 2022, and in 2023 TdF ITT Jonas put big time on his last year taking the downhill corners much faster.

Two moments were the race was fully on and risks were taken.

Context is needed.

And comparing him to someone who is really great at to say he is bad, is not a very good thing to either.

Either way, he is not one of the worst at it or "bad". I would say he is good at it... while guys like Pidcock, Mohoric and so on are really GREAT at it.

 

[DNP-Old]

Teddy saying it wasn't hard enough for him to win...this is getting farcical...

How so? I think this is a dig at part of his team, and rightfully so. Ulissi and Hirschi stole money today.

Del Toro and Wellens were superb, they just had to do too much for obvious reasons. Covi and Novak did their job as asked. Even more, because Covi never should have led for a second on Cipressa.

 

[Salvarani]

Demare never actually won MSR though

2016 never happened.

 

[ppanther92]

See, Mohoric confirms: in training behind a motorbike Pogacar dropped him because the speed was so high. But Pogacar in the wind vs. others drafting - for that Poggio is not hard enough. So UAE needs to hire a motorbike.

 

[Red Rick]

"He was moving naturally to his left", what does that even mean, lol? So because he had to overtake Stuyven on the left, he has carte blanche to continue diagonally all the way across the road?

When you launch you take your lane, but actually went back to open the door to the door for Philipsen again.

 

[scribers]

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.

The whole team was pinched into corners and out of position going into the cipressa. They had to go hot just to reconstitute. And the favorites just watched them racing back by them to get that position back. Too cooked too late to force a selection. If a guy like philipsen makes it past those efforts it wasn’t good enough to say the least

 

[Netserk]

A very satisfying finale. Sanremo proves again that after all the focus being on the top-2 favourites, several others were in play and a third one won.

 

[ppanther92]

Teddy saying it wasn't hard enough for him to win...this is getting farcical...

He is totally right though. Mohoric also just confirmed.

 

[benzwire]

Good to see Alaphilippe in the top 10. Matthews too. Good showing by the veterans of the peloton.
Overall a great race. Some of the most exciting 10 minutes of racing of the year!

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogacar was very smart in the second attack. He did everything he could.

When MVP and Pidcock cought him he could've recovered a bit (before maybe trying a solo in the last km) instead of leading for a couple of more minutes. But he probably wanted to avoid Philipsen and co so it made sense.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Two moments were the race was fully on and risks were taken.

Context is needed.

And comparing him to someone who is really great at to say he is bad, is not a very good thing to either.

Either way, he is not one of the worst at it or "bad". I would say he is good at it... while guys like Pidcock, Mohoric and so on are really GREAT at it.

I don't think anyone is saying he's overrated, and no one is saying he's the worst.

 

[Salvarani]

A very satisfying finale. Sanremo proves again that after all the focus being on the top-2 favourites, several others were in play and a third one won.

Some people never learn.

 

[Salvarani]

I don't think anyone is saying he's overrated, and no one is saying he's the worst.

Maybe saying he is "bad" is just poor choice of words, which is all I am saying.

 

[Lequack]

The only question is, would Remco or Wout have won this?

 

[Netserk]

If done skilfully - so as to not endanger your opponent - it's completely legit to close the door on the sucker who can't do a long sprint.

 

[Mayomaniac]

When you launch you take your lane, but actually went back to open the door to the door for Philipsen again.

This, Matthews blew it by creating additional space for Philipsen to overtake him.