Milan-Sanremo 2024 ***Spoilers***
Time for the monument that folks seem to either love or hate: La Primavera. This year it's a handful of Kms shorter.
Climbs.
Final Kms.
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It's a big day when you're starting at 8.30
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Wife needs a lift to her friend's house at 4.
Hope we crack on today.
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Let’s hope Pog is true to his word, as he was at Stade Bianchi, and attacks on the Cipressa.
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You'd think forming the break from a few Italian pro-conti teams could have been done by email and didn't need a meeting.... (yes, I am apparently watching the whole race)
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It's a bluff. He's going on the Turchino
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Break of the day are away, 11 of them - the usual suspects plus A Movistar, DSM and FDJ
Tonelli makes it for the fourth year running
Lidl-Trek seem keen to keep it very close, it went out to about 2'30" and it's back down to 1'35"
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Not sure he has the 3 minute power to wait to the Poggio.
Main thing is to watch how hard UAE make it early on.
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They're going to absolutely smash it up Turchino, I'm sure.
He got battered waiting on Poggio last year, but he's looking in really good form and pretty powerful from Strade Bianche
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The break given a massive 2 mins11
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They really aren't happy with it being that big. Bet there are a few phone calls going round the team cars right now
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Predictions are for a record breaking speed, there's a light tailwind
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Of course UAE are going to smash it up before the Poggio, but if - as Bianche showed - Pog’s form is ahead of last year (which would make sense with his Giro ambitions) and he’s currently hitting the numbers he displayed at last years Ronde (where he dropped MVDP and WVA on the Kwaremont - a climb with similar characteristics to the Poggio) - he could more feasibly drop everyone this year when he couldn’t in ‘23…
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The thing I love about this race is that the favourites are always up there, but the actual winner is always unpredictable. The last repeat winner was Oscar Freire in 2010 (his third), the last back-to back winner Zabel in 2001. Yet Peter Sagan had 9 top tens - including two 2nd places and FIVE fourth places without winning it. Gilbert had 5 top tens (two podiums) without winning.
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It would be a suicidal move. UAE are going to make it very hard on the Cipressa, with Maxtin saying they need to climb it in under 9 minutes, to reduce the front group down significantly. Pogacar has to wait untill the Poggio, but hopefully he'll save it all for one huge attack over the top, rather than the repeated accelerations he's made in previous editions.
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The only viable tactic for Pog is to have his team make the race as hard (fast) as possible for the last couple of hours then sit on MDVPs wheel on the Poggio. Let others attack and make MDVP chase them back and hope to counter that. It really is a 'be prepared to loss' scenario.
He simply doesn't have the power to drop MDVP.
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I saw him do exactly that on the Kwaremont last year. As did everyone else.
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Is it worth watching yet?
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Different race.
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Really don’t get why they don’t have the confidence to let the break get more given the distance available to chase it down.
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MDVP on TV a lot
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Well there are two teams with three riders who could bury themselves and leave one man fresh, and there's a light tailwind.
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Just joining at 45k to go Seems fast as fffk.... They ahead of schedule ?
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"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
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Always crashes going into this phase of MSR
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
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Laporte cracks
"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
