{"id":557103,"date":"2026-03-22T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:49:08","slug":"unibet-rose-rockets-reflect-on-quiet-milano-san-remo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557103\/","title":{"rendered":"Unibet Rose Rockets reflect on quiet Milano-San Remo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian rider Sergio Meris finished as the top performer for <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/unibet-rose-rockets\" title=\"Unibet Rose Rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unibet Rose Rockets<\/a> at this year&#8217;s Milan-San Remo, crossing the line in 50th place. While the team successfully brought all seven of their riders to the finish line on the Via Roma, they missed out on the early breakaway and played a quiet role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/results-milano-sanremo-2026-tadej-pogacar-makes-history-wins-photo-finish-ahead-of-tom-pidcock-after-crash-chaos-and-cipressa-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explosive finale dominated by Tadej Pogacar<\/a>.Although finishing the grueling Monument is an achievement in itself, the Unibet Rose Rockets struggled to make a tactical impact on the race&#8217;s defining moments. Meris finished over three minutes behind the victorious Pogacar, while team leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/lukas-kubis\" title=\"Lukas Kubis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Kubis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/clement-venturini\" title=\"Cl\u00e9ment Venturini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cl\u00e9ment Venturini<\/a> crossed the line in a large trailing group nearly four minutes down on the frontrunners.\u201cOur longest day in the saddle was not our best day,\u201d the team honestly concluded on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rockets_cycling\/status\/2035395681188216982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media<\/a> after the dust had settled in San Remo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian rider Sergio Meris finished as the top performer for Unibet Rose Rockets at this year&#8217;s Milan-San Remo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,169488,784,202747,85,172161],"class_list":["post-557103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clement-venturini","tag-cycling","tag-lukas-kubis","tag-sports","tag-unibet-rose-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}