Milan-Sanremo: surprise Mohoric, Van Aert, Pogacar and Van der Poel mocked

From our correspondent Luca Gialanella

March 19
– Milan

Matej Mohoric transforms the descent of the Poggio into a festival note. Show the kids from cycling schools what it’s like to go fast when there are hairpin bends, hairpin bends, and controlling skids. Overcoming the limits, but in any case managing everything in complete safety, always present to himself. The Slovenian from Kranj, 27, world junior champion in 2012 and Under 23 in Florence 2013, invents a number that will remain in the history of Milan-Sanremo: for the first time in 113 editions, the Classicissima is Slovenian. But not by Tadej Pogacar, protagonist of four accelerations on the Poggio even in the simplest sections, or by Primoz Roglic, at work for Van Aert. Sanremo is owned by Mohoric, the third man. The third man like Fiorenzo Magni, in the era of Coppi and Bartali, another downhill phenomenon: because cycling is also knowing how to go fast when the road goes down.

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Tadej is another symbol of Slovenia that is getting its hands on today’s cycling. At 27, he gives Sanremo to Bahrain-Victorious, the team of Colbrelli, Caruso and Landa. First Mohoric, second the French Turgis, third the Dutch Van der Poel (returning after Roubaix 2021, and five months without road races for back problems), fourth the Australian Matthews and fifth the very favorite Pogacar. Then Pedersen, Kragh Andersen and Van Aert, eighth. First Italian Vincenzo Albanese, eleventh at 11 “. The best thing was the hug, immediately after the finish, between the great protagonists of the race and Mohoric. This is cycling: because the Poggio, the descent and the finish on the Aurelia were, as always, ten kilometers with a crazy electrocardiogram. It’s twenty minutes beyond belief. Mohoric passes fifth on top of the Poggio and begins to conquer Sanremo after a kilometer of descent. He enters the water channel in a curve to the right, such is the speed of him, and comes out in a big way to take the lead and jump into the descent. Faster than the bike, he earns meter by meter. He brakes firmly in the last left downhill bend, makes the bike cross, and then the twist at the final 700 meters, when the chain falls. Mohoric also surpasses this and triumphs. The Slovenian boasts the stage of Gualdo Tadino at the Giro 2018, two at the Tour 2021 and one at the Vuelta. But above all the fans remember him for the very ugly downhill fall in the Campo Felice-Rocca di Cambio stage at the Giro 2021: a somersault with a landing on the head and shoulder. That day his helmet saved him. One night in the hospital and then back home and then on a bike. Now La Sanremo belongs to him.