Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the pure triller among the Monuments: Milano-Sanremo. 280 km for bilding up the tension and 15 km for all the unexpected turns.
After the race in August last year, Milano-Sanremo found its ordinary place in the calendar again. The weather was nice and sunny and first of all dry. The route was almost the same like (almost) every year, except the Turchino pass, which had to be dropped from the program due a dangerous landslide. Instead, the peloton crossed the Colle del Giovo.
The breakaway group of the day established quite unproblematically. The last of them, Taco Van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) was caught with 24km to go. Ineos was the team, that controlled the peloton at this point of zhe race, and they were setting such a high tempo, to launch an attack was basically impossible. As if they would have prepare for a bunch sprint, which surely wasn,t the case with Michal Kwiatkowski and Tom Pidcock in the team.