Pogacar looking to end Milan-San Remo 'torment' with possible early attack up the Cipressa ascent

Tadej Pogačar took third place in the Milano-Sanremo classic.

Will the fifth time be the good one? Tadej Pogacar arrives on the eve of Milan-Sanremo on Saturday, March 22 with only one goal: to win. The Slovenian champion is number 1 in world cycling and in 2024 he achieved extraordinary results, such as the Giro d'Italia-Tour de France double that was missing since Marco Pantani's double in 1998, and the online world title, to which he added the fourth consecutive Giro di Lombardia and the Liege-Bastogne-…

Only Eddy Merckx and two other Belgians will win the five most important cycling classics. High time for Tadej Pogačar to change that. He still lacks Milan-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix. Especially the triumph of "La Classicissima" is important to him.

The Slovenian phenomenon is measured by one of the few races that resists it: the "Classicissima".

The Slovenian cycling star will win for the fifth time today at the monument that suits him the least. Mohorič would repeat the feat from 2022.

The myth of cycling, 80 years old in June, is told: “I am not afraid of death, I am a believer and I know that I have been a good person. Gimondi was my friend...