Milan-San Remo Men LIVE – The race head onto the Passo del Turchino

Into the final 100 miles with the break still holding two minutes and 38 seconds but will a big rush come from behind?

2026-03-21T12:13:06.047Z

Bahrain Victorious move to the front alongside Lotto-Intermarche and the Dillier led part of the bunch. Things are changing.

2026-03-21T12:12:10.217Z

They’re on the Passo del Turchino, officially it is 5.6km but really it is far less than that.

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2026-03-21T12:08:57.656Z

Biniam Girmay (NSN) and Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) at the back of the bunch having a chat.

2026-03-21T12:08:28.755Z

Multiple teams jostling for position in the peloton behind the little train led by Dillier with multiple UAE Team Emirates-XRG riders behind him.

The peloton are now two minutes and 37 seconds behind the peloton.

2026-03-21T12:02:36.105Z

UAE Team Emirates-XRG have moved up en masse with Pogačar surrounded by his teammated including Tirreno-Adriatico winner, Isaac Del Toro. Van der Poel also moves up along with Van Aert. Will Pogačar do the unthickable and copy the great Fausto Coppi and attack on the Passo del Turchino?

2026-03-21T12:00:31.880Z

Dillier still doing his thing on the front of the peloton.

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2026-03-21T11:52:11.601Z

Two minutes and 40 seconds split the peloton and the break.

Now 30km to go until the Passo del Turchino.

2026-03-21T11:40:14.587Z

Van der Poel riding back into the peloton with teammate, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Premier Tech) as well as Lukáš Kubiš (Unibet-Rose-Rockets). The latter in the full white shorts and Slovakian champs jersey.

2026-03-21T11:38:41.308Z

Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike) just coming back into the peloton. He was a last minute replacement for Matthew Brennan who was ruled out due to illness. Campenaerts was called up yesterday and he got on a plane and flew over to Milan.

Meanwhile, his bikes were being taken to Milan by car. The bikes got to Switzerland at a petrol station where the TVL staff member accidentally put the wrong fuel in the car! The car, now wrecked and undriveable, was stuck. A soigneur of the team in Milan took off to Switzerland last night and collected the bikes. He arrived back at the team hotel at around 3:30am and Campenaerts has his bikes.

2026-03-21T11:31:17.102Z

The race goes through three regions in Italy today. They are Liguria, Lombardy and Piedmont.

Into the final 200km of racing with a gap of two minutes and 37 seconds between the break and the peloton.

2026-03-21T11:18:44.275Z

The first change at the front of the peloton in some time sees Dilier and his Alpecin-Premier Tech team joined by a rider from Pinarello-Q36.5 riding for Tom Pidcock. The Yorkshireman comes into today off the back of a very impressive victory at Milan-Turin (Milano-Torino) where he soloed away from the likes of Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) and Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) on the Superga climb to the finish. How will he do today with the rapid descent off the Poggio suiting him perfectly?

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2026-03-21T11:13:12.393Z

Pogačar just returning to the bunch after a nature break and a stop at the car, he is now being escorted back towards the front of the peloton.

2026-03-21T11:09:14.441Z

The riders now have 60km to go until the top of the Passo del Turchino.

Two minutes and 42 seconds between the break and the peloton. The bunch still really strung out.

2026-03-21T11:01:53.678Z

Peron using his EpiPen in the breakaway. He rides for Novo Nordisk. The whole point of the team is that they change the perception of people living with diabetes. Every rider on the team lives with type one diabetes. The team was founded by Phil Sutherland and Joe Eldridge in 2005, they both have diabetes as well.

2026-03-21T10:56:56.017Z

The break are riding hard but, so are the peloton.

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The peloton are still just under three minutes behind the break.

2026-03-21T10:47:47.076Z

Interesting that Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) is in fourth wheel in the peloton as they ride back across to Dillier.

2026-03-21T10:47:03.939Z

Dillier has been let go off the front yet again, this time being let go with a Lidl-Trek rider. He is getting very annoyed with the rest of the bunch. It causes another split in the bunch and is being stitched back together again.

2026-03-21T10:45:13.619Z

Almost an hour and a half of racing done with the average speed at 46.4kph. They are still really hammering along.

The break has a gap of under three minutes now as Dillier is slowly dragging them back again. There is still about 80km to the top of the Passo de Turchino.

2026-03-21T10:27:06.896Z

Orluis Aular (Movistar) and Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) both crashed hard on a bridge not so long ago, completely missed by the cameras with both of them having to abandon the race.

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2026-03-21T10:24:19.652Z

The breakaway had split up as well with some riders taking a chance to have a nature break with Marcellusi and Maestri being the two riders continuing as a duo.

2026-03-21T10:23:30.850Z

They come back together again but it is very strung out with riders really in the gutter. The pace is high and the wind seems to be there as well.

2026-03-21T10:22:45.687Z

There’s a few splits in the peloton here with a group of about 20 riders having about 50 metres gap on the rest of the peloton.

2026-03-21T10:22:14.423Z

The rest of the peloton spoiling Dillier’s pacing again as he is riding off the front of the peloton once more with Novak. Those two are wanting to keep the pace high but Soudal-QuickStep, Ineos Grenadiers and EF Education-EasyPost aren’t as keen.

2026-03-21T10:18:36.717Z

The gap is coming down some more with it now at three minutes and 18 seconds.

Another 10km done and the gap is holding around three and a half minutes. Dillier seems happy with this gap.

2026-03-21T10:08:47.281Z

There are some big name riders who were meant to be racing today but have been caught out by illness and family issues in both the men’s and women’s races. In the men’s side, two standout names are Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) and Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike). However, there is someone who has come in for Milan for his first race appearance in over 40 days, Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), how will he be performing today?

The gap is coming down with the break holding three and a half minutes on the peloton.

2026-03-21T09:59:26.659Z

Marcellusi is having a chat with the medical car for a moment. He has gone back to the break now. But, something to keep an eye on.

2026-03-21T09:57:50.471Z

This is what the peloton looks like at the moment. Dillier doing what he normally does.

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2026-03-21T09:53:20.798Z

40 minutes raced and they have covered over 30km already.

2026-03-21T09:51:49.111Z

Polti-Visit Malta are wearing the retro 1990s style Polti kit today…

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Yes, we still have a very long way to go. But, we have done almost 30km already. It is flying by! We’ll be on La Cipressa in a blink of an eye. Dillier still leading the way in the peloton with four minutes and six seconds up to the nine man break.

2026-03-21T09:44:32.244Z

The average speed so far is 51.4kph! Absolutely incredible speeds early on.

2026-03-21T09:42:08.690Z

The pace in the peloton is actually pretty high as the gap went out to about four minutes and 20 seconds with Dillier bringing it down to just around four minutes again and it is coming down.

2026-03-21T09:40:17.221Z

Almost the entire lineup of Alpecin-Premier Tech hit the front of the peloton including Van der Poel, who is in fourth wheel, very interesting to see the defending champion so close to the front.

2026-03-21T09:34:38.719Z

Dillier and co are caught with the former Swiss national champion goes to the front with Novak with Ineos Grenadiers, Lidl-Trek and Soudal-QuickStep all up towards the front.

2026-03-21T09:32:59.300Z

Annoyingly for Dillier, the peloton were not ready to follow his pacing early on and he has gone clear with two other riders, Johan Jacobs (Groupama-FDJ United) and Axel Laurance (Ineos Grenadiers). All braking and looking around wondering where everyone else is.

2026-03-21T09:29:34.437Z

The peloton take control with the gap at over two minutes, of course, it is Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Premier Tech) who comes to the front of the bunch. He settles in for his yearly monster ride on the front of the peloton.

2026-03-21T09:25:28.647Z

And that is the peloton well and truly set as multiple riders take their natural breaks.

2026-03-21T09:24:24.391Z

The break of the day:

Martin Marcellusi (Bardiani CSF-7 Saber)
Manuele Tarozzi (Bardiani CSF-7 Saber)
Lorenzo Milesi (Movistar)
Manlio Moro (Movistar)
Andrea Peron (Novo Nordisk)
David Lozano (Novo Nordisk)
Alexy Faure-Prost (Picnic-PostNL)
Dario Igor Belletta (Polti-Visit Malta)
Mirco Maestri (Polti-Visit Malta)

And the peloton is almost a minute behind.

2026-03-21T09:20:58.435Z

The breakaway seems to have formed with the peloton letting it go. A few more riders tried to ride away but got a strong telling off by Domen Novak (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and returned to the peloton.

2026-03-21T09:16:42.685Z

The break go the wrong way on the roundabout! The first bit of road interest and it goes wrong. The lead cars and police bikes led the way with the riders following. A new breakaway is forming after that bizarre moment.

2026-03-21T09:14:42.350Z

About 10 riders away with about three Bardiani CSF-7 Saber, several from Novo Nordisk and Polti-VisitMalta as well as Matthew Dinham (Picnic-PostNL).

Racing begins for the first Monument of the year and the attacks immediately begins with Novi Nordisk launching first.

Just 3.6km of neutralised zone this morning.

2026-03-21T09:05:55.180Z

The teams have all signed on for the race and are set for the neutral start. But, how about this bonkers special kit from Polti-Visit Malta.

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2026-03-21T08:58:59.944Z

Its interesting that Ineos Grenadiers think that Josh Tarling could be involved for the win today, but they do have Filippo Ganna…