Milano-Sanremo Breakdown: Pre-Race Favorites Foiled by Patience, Skill & Nerves of Steel

After the favorites are once again left with nothing to show for their efforts, we get yet another example that it is better to fly under the radar in modern cycling

The ‘real’ cycling season began on Saturday as the peloton undertook the iconic march down the Liguria coast for the seasons’ first one-day Monument of Milan-Sanremo. While the sport’s three best riders, Tadej Pogačar, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel were heavily favored for the win, the forgotten Slovenian, Matej Mohorič spoiled the party by pry…