Success of Mathieu Van der Poel in the 116th edition of the Milan -Sanremo. The Dutchman preceded the Italian Filippo Ganna and the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar in the sprint.
Exciting race in the last 25 kilometers where Pogacar has inflamed the race on the cypress, the response from Van der Poel is ready who held the wheel of the ’98 class. Ganna has returned in the last two kilometers, but the blue has not been able to impose itself in the final sprint. Seventh victory in the classic monument for Van der Poel, to his second statement to the classic spring after that of 2023.
Van der Poel: “emotion to remember”
“I am very happy to have won, it will be an edition to remember. I do not remember when it was the last attack on the cipress capable of reaching the finish line, then we three to the end: it is an emotion that I will remember for a long time”. The winner of the 116th edition of the Milan-Sanremo, the Dutch Mathieu van der Poel, declared it to the microphones of Rai Sport.
“I felt well in the flat stretch before the finish line – added the Alpecin -Deceuninck champion – I tried to surprise them, I anticipated the shot and I managed to do in my intent. Pogacar made his game and his strategy, on the cypress he attacked, but I was fine and I was a wheel. I will not be angry, we are friends: winning a race for the second time.”