World champion Tadej Pogacar overcame a crash to win his first Milan-San Remo by half a wheel from Britain’s Tom Pidcock in a thrilling two-man sprint finish.<\/p>\n
Four-time Tour de France winner Pogacar attacked with 22km of the 298km one-day Monument remaining, with only Pidcock and Mathieu van der Poel able to follow.<\/p>\n
Two-time winner Van der Poel was dropped on the final climb, the Poggio, leaving Pogacar and Pidcock to contest the finale.<\/p>\n
Pogacar launched his sprint first and Pidcock fought to get alongside, but was just edged out as both threw themselves towards the line.<\/p>\n
The Slovenian, already regarded as one of the greatest cyclists ever, has now won four of the five ‘Monuments’ – the most prestigious one-day races in men’s cycling – with only Paris-Roubaix left.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s victory moves him level with Roger de Vlaeminck into equal second on the list of most Monument victories, with 11. Only the legendary Eddy Merckx has more, with 19.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old’s victory was even more remarkable given he recovered from a crash just before the key climb of the Cipressa to make it back to the main group.<\/p>\n
“For a second I thought it was all over but luckily I was quickly back on the bike,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Pidcock was really, really strong. I was lucky in the sprint, he’s a really fast guy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champion Tadej Pogacar overcame a crash to win his first Milan-San Remo by half a wheel from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}