On Wednesday, Tom Pidcock took a strong win at Milano\u2013Torino, showing his form is there with a great solo win just three days before Milan\u2013San Remo.<\/p>\n
In a race shaped by control and smart tactics, the Brit from the Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team handled both climbs of Superga like a boss. The multi-disciplined star stayed patient early, covered the key moves. Then he made it count on the final ascent\u2014attacking with around 600 m to go, dropping Tobias Halland Johannessen and Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d.<\/p>\n
This is his second win of the 2026 season. He won Stage 5 of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol, finishing third overall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy. I felt a little bit strange today\u2026it almost felt like my first race of the year again,\u201d he said. \u201cBut yeah, I\u2019m super happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his initial ascent up the Superga, he played it cool.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first climb was a long way to go, I didn\u2019t really want to go in\u2026but with 300\u2013500 meters to the top I knew I had to close it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
From there, the race tilted his way.<\/p>\n
The final acceleration was sharp and decisive\u2014a good sign of form heading into the first Monument of the season.<\/p>\n
However, with La Primavera on the horizon, Pidcock is keeping expectations in check: \u201cMilan\u2013San Remo is very different, being in good shape doesn\u2019t mean everything. It\u2019s one of my favourite races but if you make one mistake, it costs you everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2025, he said then he turned into the Cipressa in a bad position and everything was different.<\/p>\n
Piddy also hinted that everyone knows where Tadej Poga\u010dar will launch. I mean, the fact that his team has even said so hardly keeps it a secret either. The Poggio is too short and too easy for him to get a gap. So the worst-kept secret in the pro peloton is that the world champion is going to try and launch on the Cipressa.<\/p>\n
The Cipressa is 5.6 km long with an average gradient of 4.1 per cent. The Poggio is 3.7 km long with an average gradient of 4.0 per cent. You\u2019ve probably seen riders having to slow down in the switchbacks on the latter. Pogi himself has in the past told media exactly when he will attack\u2013and given that there really aren\u2019t too many places to do so\u2013unlss you pull a Matej Mohoric or Sean Kelly and make a move on the descent\u2013the Cipressa seems like the best option. But everyone will be prepared for that, it seems.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe race is very explosive and I like that. It\u2019s really one of my favourite races. And yes, we already know what will happen on the Cipressa,\u201d he said to Cycling Pro Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coverage of the men\u2019s race is on FloBikes.com<\/a> at 4 friggin\u2019 50 a.m. EDT. The women\u2019s race feed begins at 7:30 a.m. EDT. Remember, the dude\u2019s MSR is 300 km long<\/a> and not a lot happens until the last quarter. But hey, it makes for nice background noise if you\u2019re riding the trainer.<\/p>\n The startlists are still being finalized. So far, two Canadians are listed in the women\u2019s race: Visma-Lease a Bike\u2019s Sarah Van Dam, and Movistar\u2019s Olivia Baril.<\/p>\n Affiliate links present. Canadian Cycling Magazine may receive commissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Tom Pidcock took a strong win at Milano\u2013Torino, showing his form is there with a great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[212974,212975,49,48,635,13633,174339,48387,82,1422],"class_list":["post-546589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-milan-san-remo","tag-2026-sanremo-donne","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-olivia-baril","tag-sarah-van-dam","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}