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2026-03-07T11:41:19.230Z
Here’s a small group that tried, but failed, to get away.
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2026-03-07T11:38:16.317Z
170KM TO GO
2026-03-07T11:36:31.273Z
Another abandoned to report – Luca Paletti of the Bardiani team.
2026-03-07T11:33:56.248Z
The riders at the front of the peloton, engaged in the battle to form the day’s break.
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2026-03-07T11:29:48.584Z
GRAVEL – RADI
2026-03-07T11:28:55.417Z
A first glimpse of the peloton up close on the road today. The weather is dry, which will make for a duty race over the white gravel roads.
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2026-03-07T11:24:12.559Z
180KM TO GO
2026-03-07T11:22:41.267Z
Unfortunately, we already have news of abandonments – Albert Withen Philipsen, Kim Heiduk and Robbe Dhondt are all out of the race. It’s unclear if they were involved in a crash.
2026-03-07T11:21:09.200Z
The peloton is through the second gravel sector, but still remains together with no break having gone clear yet.
2026-03-07T11:17:25.899Z
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2026-03-07T11:14:38.108Z
GRAVEL – BAGNAIA
2026-03-07T11:08:37.749Z
190KM TO GO
2026-03-07T11:07:20.784Z
GRAVEL – VIDRITTA
2026-03-07T11:03:48.227Z
None of the fallers seem badly hurt, and all are back riding again.
2026-03-07T11:01:46.843Z
There’s been a crash already, and we’re not even onto the gravel roads yet. About half a dozen riders have gone down.
2026-03-07T11:00:15.349Z
Pogačar at the start, with some of the peloton’s national champions – most notably Quinn Simmons in his American champion’s jersey.
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2026-03-07T10:57:18.606Z
OFFICIAL START
2026-03-07T10:55:17.223Z
Early predictions of it being a mild, dry day have come into fruition, and so the peloton are set to take on the infamous gravel roads in their dry form, rather than the wet mud that has been the case in some recent editions.
2026-03-07T10:46:42.309Z
Tadej Pogačar at the start, about to begin his mission to get his hands on that trophy once more.
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2026-03-07T10:43:12.032Z
The men are on the move – they’re making their way through Siena towards the official start, which is only a matter of minutes away.
2026-03-07T10:40:29.772Z
We’re still waiting for the men to get going, but the women’s race is already well underway and into the gravel sectors. You can follow along with all the action here with Cyclingnews.
2026-03-07T10:37:19.664Z
Also potentially playing against Tadej Pogačar’s strengths are changes made to the route. After years of getting harder and harder, the organisers have this time tweaked it to make it shorter, feature less gravel sectors, and therefore less brutally difficult – which will (in theory at least) make it harder for the Slovenian to ride away from the rest of the field as he has in previous editions.
2026-03-07T10:31:42.707Z
And then there’s the factor of the other riders catching up, especially a new generation ready to rise – epitomised by 19-year-old Paul Seixas. Today the stunningly-talented teenager makes his Strade Bianche debut, and is braced for a duel against Pogačar in what could become a great new rivalry.
2026-03-07T10:29:23.745Z
Will this year’s edition be quite so straightforward for Pogačar? Not necessarily. As sublime as the Slovenian has been these past two seasons, those standards he has set are impossibly high to maintain for too long, he inevitably must peak eventually – could that peak have already come?
2026-03-07T10:25:52.152Z
Strade Bianche is also a race Pogačar knows down to a tee, and he’s proven to be unstoppable here in recent years, winning all three of the editions he has started since 2022.
2026-03-07T10:23:53.981Z
He’a back! Almost five months since rounding off another historic season by winning Il Lombardia, Tadej Pogačar is back racing again, and the expectation is for him to pick up from where he left off and start terrorising the opposition once more.
2026-03-04T18:17:51.757Z
Hello and welcome to the 2026 men’s Strade Bianche!
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