Milano - Sanremo: March 20, 2021

[sir fly]

Brilliant racing instinct of Stuyven.
Well done!

Thrilling finale as ever.

 

[Carols]

Wow great steal by Stuyven!!! Kudos to him and Trek

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Also Sagan looks like he's finding his legs.

 

[woodburn]

Kudos to Stuyven. Had the legs on the Poggio and read the race perfectly to jump everyone in that small group by betting the sprinters wouldn't get organized.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Sagan beat MVdP!

 

[RedheadDane]

That was brilliant!

 

[Breezy1985]

Are Ineos really going to strangle the whole Poggio here

They suck the @r$e out of everything

 

[Lui98]

I'm so happy for Stuyven

 

[Mayomaniac]

Ewan being so strong really changed the dynamic of the race.

 

[JosefK]

Stuyven gets the race of a lifetime. Courage wins, today.

 

[Screecher]

Sagan 4th 3 years in a row. He struggled on the climbs but still has a good sprint in him.

 

[Bonimenier]

Really looks like he can't believe it at all

 

[Salvarani]

Smart attack. Great win.

 

[titan31]

Ewan being in that group really helped. No one was chasing with him there even for teams like Bora or Ineos with more than one person

 

[Danskebjerge]

Wow. Stuyven only won because he was caught by Andersen. Great finish.

 

[JosefK]

Anyone who wasn't Ewan needed to take a chance before the final kilometer to have a chance.

 

[Krokro]

Happy that no Ineos got this, what a fking anticlimax Pogio.

But happy for Stuyven with the Omloop move. Well deserved and I'm okay with that kind of win.

 

[Breezy1985]

Really surprised Ala didn't try blasting down the Poggio. Could have really put some people under pressure

 

[BlueRoads]

I'm torn. Stuyven is a bit underwhelming. But it's good that MSR stays such an unpredictable race.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I still have some pictures somewhere, i took of a 17 year old Stuyven getting his bike measured and adjusted.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

I loved it. Ineos bizarre tactics and Ewan being so unexpectedly great completely altered every aspect of the race.

Stuyven understood that there would be no cohesion in a chase after an outsider and seized the moment brilliantly. Nice to see the smart opportunist rewarded.

He doesn’t win often and he spends a lot of time working for others, but when he does win he wins big. Very nice palmares he has now for a guy who wins once every year.

 

[saganftw]

wow ineos terrible tactics, stuyven had the guts and also was lucky kragh andersen caught him and for some reason lead him out

why didnt ineos pull hard on cipressa if thats what they wanted to do with pidcock and kwiatek

 

[johnymax]

Sagan beat MVdP!

MvdP clearly can't sprint after a very hard race.

 

[movingtarget]

Ewan being so strong really changed the dynamic of the race.

Ewan did everything right except the final 200, still great ride. Good ride by Sagan as well but the winner outsmarted them.

 

[KZD]

Never would gave predicted this. Van der Poel really needs to position himself better to win this classic.
Anyway, on to the cobbles.