Le premier temps fort de la saison 2025, c'était ce samedi ! Pour ce 116e Milano-Sanremo, la course s'est décantée dès la Cipressa, avec une première accélération de Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG). Accélération dévastatrice puisque Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) et Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers) ont été les seuls à pouvoir suivre. Après un Poggio exceptionnel, la victoire s'est jouée au sprint entre ces trois hommes et c'est finalement Mathieu van der Poel qui remporte une édition incroyable. Septième Monument pour le Néerlandais !
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00:00We're going to go, I'll break it. 8. Well, stretch away via Fubariani, CSF, Fenerbahce,
00:29Fanzani, up the road with two. They've got Kivivokalan to ride for today, he's in really
00:36good form. You know, X-Mobility just marking this move, and Lotto as well.
00:42The steadiest race until the ridiculously explosive finale, but in terms of managing
00:47your resources, you have to think about it. There you go, a bit of a smile there.
00:51Marchellucci sitting on his wheel, so if you want to ride that quickly, well, I'll just sit behind
00:56He's just staying calm, he's just saying, wait. But also the others are like, well, why should we wait?
01:00We've built this lead, we want to build as much of a lead as we can.
01:05We've seen it with Il Trattore as well. Tim Wellens trying to keep warm.
01:17That's the first thing he's done that hasn't involved just riding for about an hour and a half.
01:23And he pops his shades back on.
01:25Watch the results and the highlights.
01:27An enormous bit of cake in his mouth.
01:29Look at the size of that cake.
01:31Because he locked you with that, doesn't it?
01:35Anyway, sorry, yes.
01:36I'm just wondering what the cake is. Is it a big bit of rice cake?
01:39I want to know how hard it is.
01:41Oh, it's hard.
01:42And quite dry as well.
01:43Yeah, lethargy. And Dillier just rode back a little bit too quickly.
01:49But very, very interesting.
01:51But they're sewing it back together again.
01:53And oh, there's a little bit of a move going here.
01:55This looks like Tosh van der Sande.
01:57Kit of Filippo Ganna.
01:58He can climb like Ganna can.
02:00He proved that at the UAE Tour, didn't he?
02:02And he can sprint.
02:03Sprint to a second place apparently.
02:05Yeah, I mean, I wasn't commentating directly on that race.
02:09But what was that?
02:10It was Matt Pedersen, wasn't it?
02:11He pushed super close, wasn't it?
02:13It was almost a photo finish.
02:14I think it was a photo finish, wasn't it?
02:15Yeah, it was very close.
02:17No, I mean, he is very similar.
02:19So is this the start of something big now?
02:21Something big, sustained and different from UAE Team Emirates.
02:25Communication there from Dominovak to the rider who's working on the front.
02:29Vegard Starker-Lengen, who is...
02:31If he does only gap in by four or five seconds,
02:34it's probably a good idea for him to wait.
02:35Because they're clearly the two strongest here.
02:37But Weisswasser couldn't quite respond to that stinging acceleration of Macho Lucey.
02:42It was now solo and clear for one of the invited teams into this race.
02:45And they really are making an impression.
02:47Ben Swift is carousing on his wheel.
02:49Takes the apex of that corner, taking the perfect racing line.
02:52Still hugging the inside, forcing riders to go round the outside in the wind.
02:56It's a great riding here by Swift.
02:59Very disciplined performance from Ineos Grenadiers,
03:01who've held Ghana perfectly positioned with still three support riders as well.
03:07Possibly four towards the front.
03:09Yeah, he's got Tobias Voss there, isn't he, as well?
03:11I think Ben Turner's not too far away.
03:14Shooting down and onto the climb.
03:16He's made it, Martin Macho Lucey,
03:18but he's made it by no more than about eight bike lengths
03:20as EF Education Easypost take things up now.
03:23Yes, Mikel Honoré on the front for EF Education Easypost,
03:26fully aeroed up and driving that pace.
03:28Good riding by EF Education Easypost.
03:30Perfect. Oh, there's been a crash.
03:32Is anyone down? There's a little delay there.
03:34Nils Pollitt, who's done his turn, caught out at the back.
03:37I'm trying to see whether there are any big-name riders.
03:39So there's a confidence rider down and down hard by the looks of it.
03:42And so too is that rider, Aurelien Paré-Paintre,
03:44from Decathlon AG to Alamondial,
03:46who's been caught out there and gone down.
03:48Tim Wellens on the front.
03:49Yeah, there's that little pothole on the left-hand side.
03:52But this is the job that we've seen Tim Wellens do
03:54over the last couple of years.
03:56So, Wellens, where are they?
03:58Pogacar.
04:11But you do get the sense that this is something
04:14he's going to try and launch Tadej Pogacar in second.
04:16Here we go! It's the Cipresa attack
04:19that everyone has longed to try and see.
04:21And it's Pogacar who opens things up,
04:23followed all the way by Philippe Ogana,
04:25followed by Romain Gregoire and Mathieu Van Der Poel.
04:55OK, if we want to win this one,
05:12we know how fickle this race can be
05:14in terms of opportunities.
05:16And to make it more of a...
05:18He goes straight away!
05:20Just as we thought he might.
05:21It's one of the steepest sections here.
05:23Tadej Pogacar cannot wait.
05:24Now, he's going to have to do this time and time again
05:27to shake off Mathieu Van Der Poel.
05:29He'll know that, so that is not the last of his attacks.
05:32Philippe Ogana straight away, same pattern as the Cipresa,
05:35slips into time trial mode just to stay at his own pace
05:38and ride himself back into contention.
05:40Did you hear the braking?
05:41They're braking on that corner.
05:42They're carrying so much pace.
05:43You've been evilly matched on this climb.
05:47What a battle.
05:48Oh, he goes!
05:49Just as you predicted he might.
05:50Van Der Poel counters!
05:52Pogacar!
05:53Pogacar has gone so deep now.
05:55Can he shut the door again on Van Der Poel?
05:57Or is that the winning move?
05:59Van Der Poel goes again out of the saddle.
06:01A brief little acceleration.
06:02Pogacar responding, though.
06:04The arm turns, Ned.
06:06Ogana comes back.
06:08500 metres to go and he is in the mix.
06:10Now, one breath and the Italian has to hit them hard,
06:13hit them long and get away
06:14and confuse the pair who thought they had this race between them.
06:18Mathieu Van Der Poel, then, from the front.
06:20They're all lining up on the man with the fastest finish.
06:22But don't forget what a kick Filippo Ganna has.
06:26Pogacar has it all to do to try and win this race.
06:29He is on the back foot now, the world champion,
06:31as Van Der Poel looks round and they slow right up.
06:34500 metres to go.
06:36Checks again, Van Der Poel.
06:37Ganna, they're easing right up.
06:39Some other riders could yet come into this.
06:41We don't know where that group behind is.
06:43They're out of sight for now.
06:44Pogacar playing a very, very cool game.
06:47Drops right off to try and launch a long one.
06:49Van Der Poel on the left-hand side of the road.
06:51Ganna on the right.
06:52Pogacar winding it up.
06:53But Van Der Poel goes long.
06:55That's a risk.
06:56That is a big risk.
06:57He's opened up his sprint over 300 metres from the line.
07:00Ganna trying to shut it.
07:01And Pogacar is on the wheel of the Italian.
07:04All three of these riders could win from here.
07:06But Van Der Poel holds them off.
07:08Ganna in second place.
07:09Pogacar in third.
07:11That was a race for the ages.
07:13You'll have to wait a very, very long time
07:16to see a better Milan-San Remo for men than that.